Slack (software)

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by @christoph
2020-12-01T22:00:02+00:00
Technology • Internet & Web
Slack bought by Salesforce for $28 billion
Slack bought by Salesforce for $28 billion
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Salesforce has announced on Tuesday afternoon said it will pay $27.7 billion in cash and stock to buy workplace collaboration platform Slack.

All shareholders of Slack will receive a 55% premium to Slack's trading price at $45.86 per share.

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2020-07-22T22:00:02+00:00
Technology • Internet & Web
Slack files EU competition complaint against Microsoft
Slack files EU competition complaint against Microsoft
Credit: Illustration: Pendect, Ashley Winkler – Logo via Slack, Microsoft Teams (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0)

The complaint details Microsoft’s illegal and anti-competitive practice of abusing its market dominance to extinguish competition in breach of European Union competition law. Microsoft has illegally tied its Teams product into its market-dominant Office productivity suite, force installing it for millions, blocking its removal, and hiding the actual cost to enterprise customers.