A parade of initial public offerings from Silicon Valley this year has garnered a mixed reception from investors. Slack Technologies took a different route, and saw its shares soar as it went public without an IPO.
Slack Technologies is expected to be valued by investors at $16-billion to $17-billion when it lists its shares publicly next week, according to people familiar with the matter.
Each deal Google does is a reminder of its failures so far in the lucrative field of cloud computing and a potential warning sign to the software specialists that have thrived in the last decade.
Slack Technologies has built a tool that, at its best, eliminates the flood of e-mails among co-workers and replaces it with … a flood of short messages, emojis and animated GIFs.
Workplace chat software maker Slack Technologies has continued its fervent pace of fundraising with a US$427-million round of investment.
Corporate chatroom start-up Slack Technologies has received recent inquiries about a potential takeover from technology companies including Amazon.com, people with knowledge of the situation said. A deal could give San Francisco
I tried an experiment this year: no airtime. In some ways it was like jumping back 20 years, to that time where you couldn’t just pick up the phone wherever you were and call someone. I had to make an effort, find a landline, or steal my wife’s phone. My wife told
Whether you’re sitting in a plush C-suite making executive decisions for a multinational, or sitting alone in your study working on a zany start-up idea, productivity matters. How quickly and efficiently we can get things done shapes the course of our careers, our companies