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Remote Screen Access Platform TeamViewer Integrate into Slack

17Nov By AdityaNo Comments

Tech

Remote Screen Access Platform TeamViewer Integrate into Slack

TAMPA BAY, Fla., Nov. 17, 2022 - TeamViewer, a leading global provider of remote connectivity and workplace digitalization solutions, announced a new integration for Slack, the leading collaboration platform for work. It allows users to launch web-based TeamViewer remote access and augmented reality (AR) support sessions from within the Slack environment. "Remote work has impacted the requirements for collaboration and support," says Alfredo Patron, Executive Vice President Business Development at TeamViewer. "Slack has set a new standard in agile team collaboration over the past years and is used by major corporations as well as communities. Embedding TeamViewer remote access and AR support will give our customers even more options to interact and increase productiv...

Microsoft Prohibited its employees from using Slack, AWS

25Jun By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Microsoft Prohibited its employees from using Slack, AWS

SAN FRANCISCO: Satya Nadella led Microsoft banned its employees from using instant messaging platform Slack due to security concerns. As per the report, Microsoft released a list of prohibited software and services including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Docs inside the company. As per the company, "Slack Free, Slack Standard, and Slack Plus versions do not provide required controls to properly protect Microsoft Intellectual Property (IP)" and hence it advises that staff should use its internally developed software instead. "Existing users of these solutions should migrate chat history and files related to Microsoft business to Microsoft Teams, which offers the same features and integrated Office 365 apps, calling and meeting functionality. "Slack Enterprise Grid versio...

Slack announce direct Listing, Will not go for traditional IPO

29Apr By AdityaNo Comments

Market

Slack announce direct Listing, Will not go for traditional IPO

Slack Technologies, Inc. announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed public listing of its Class A common stock. The public listing is expected to take place after the SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions. As per the information, Slack opt for a direct listing as opposed to a traditional IPO. This kind of listing gives other small investors to sell their shares to large investors - a strategy which follows for early trading. Slack is hoping for a valuation of more than $10 billion in the listing. However, the company did not specify the exact number of shares for the listing. Founded in 2013, Slack allows teams and ...

Twitter Founder Invests in Delhi based AI Startup

23Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

FUNDING

Twitter Founder Invests in Delhi based AI Startup

Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone has invested in his "personal capacity" in a Delhi based health startup that makes use of an artificial intelligence bot in its app, as he wants to contribute to a future where AI is seen as a "positive enhancement of humanity". "Visit", founded in 2016 is an on-demand healthcare service provider that facilitates consultation from a pool of medical specialist and general physicians to its users. The startup has recently introduced an AI-based "chatbot" which acts as a digital assistant to provide "smart help" to patients in accessing doctor's consultation. Indian investors Rohit Bansal and Kunal Bahl, co-founders of Snapdeal have also invested in their personal capacity in Visit. Vaibhav Singh, Co-founder, and Head at Visit said, This is country's ...

5 Best Online Tools for Startups and SME’S To Increase Productivity

2Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

Story

5 Best Online Tools for Startups and SME’S To Increase Productivity

In our fast-paced changing lives surrounded by technology "all-around", competition to excel is enormous. A strong online presence today is not only a "norm" rather a "necessity". Any budding startup or small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) today requires a strong online presence not only for marketing or expanding its customer base but also to embark on a journey that could bring in brand value and recognition. Launching a startup is surely a demanding task! Yet, starting is not as difficult as most people make it appear so. There could be absolutely no better time starting a company owing to the modern fast-paced lives we are living today. The competition today is "massive", but so are the resources! While the Internet does not provide any space for procrastination, it does offer ...

San Francisco Based Slack Raises $250 Mn From SoftBank Vision Fund

18Sep By PriyankaNo Comments

FUNDING, USA

San Francisco Based Slack Raises $250 Mn From SoftBank Vision Fund

San Francisco based Slack Technologies Inc. raises $250 million funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, valuing the startup at $5.1 billion. According to the reports, Slack will be utilising the funds for expansion in an increasingly competitive market for workplace messaging services. The Vision Fund was joined by Accel and other investors, Slack said on Sunday. Slack, which originally pitched as a dead-simple collaboration tool, is now looking to become more of a go-to for larger businesses as it faces a very competitive field with products from Microsoft and Atlassian. Slack earlier in this month reported that it has more than 6 million daily active users and has crossed around $200 million in annual recurring. ALSO READ SoftBank Founder Masayoshi S...

Microsoft Launches Messaging System “Microsoft Teams” For Businesses

4Nov By reutersNo Comments

News

Microsoft Launches Messaging System “Microsoft Teams” For Businesses

Microsoft has launched a messaging system for businesses, Microsoft Teams, on Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with fast-growing startup Slack and Facebook's Workplace product. The new software will be part of Microsoft's Office 365 services, a cloud-based software suite that has more than 85 million monthly active commercial users. Slack, whose customers include CBS Corp, BuzzFeed, universities and the U.S. government, had over 4 million daily active users in October. San Francisco-based Slack took out a full page ad in the New York Times on Wednesday, addressing the entry of Microsoft Teams. "We're genuinely excited to have some competition," Slack said in the ad. Microsoft said a preview of Teams will be available to Office 365 commercial customers with enterpris...

Google Acquired Singapore Startup Pie, Looking to Build Engineering Team

20Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

FUNDING

Google Acquired Singapore Startup Pie, Looking to Build Engineering Team

Google has acquired Singapore-based startup Pie.co, a slack like chat platform. The move behind this acquisition is to bring good engineers from Asia-pacific into Google. In its blog Google said, According to the UN, 300 million people came online for the first time last year. Put another way, in 2015, there were more people using the Internet for the first time than there were Americans using the Internet already. But the computing experience for most of these first-timers, coming online in places like India, Indonesia and the Philippines, is very different from the one many of us grew up with – and not the one that most of Google’s services were originally designed for. Their main (and in most cases, only) “computer” is a low-cost smartphone. Connectivity is expensive in relatio...

How Slack Technologies developed from an idea for easier office chat to software juggernaut in two years, entirely by word of mouth

14Dec By NitishNo Comments

Story

How Slack Technologies developed from an idea for easier office chat to software juggernaut in two years, entirely by word of mouth

It's late morning on a Thursday in September, and Slack Technologies CEO Stewart Butterfield has convened a meeting with his design and product heads in the company's low-key San Francisco headquarters. On the agenda is the question that's been most on Butterfield's mind lately: how his $US2.8 billion ($3.9 billion) start-up, which makes business-collaboration software, can be as good with 250, 500, or a thousand people as it was when he founded it with a team of eight. For today's meeting, Butterfield, sporting camouflage suede wingtips and argyle socks, has prepared a list of "teachable principles" he wants his people to internalise. Butterfield is off and running when something distracts him: Brandon Velestuk, Slack's design director, is video-conferencing from Vancouver, and his...