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Slack signs deal with Amazon, will move voice, video calling features to Amazon Web Services

Following the deal, all Amazon employees will get access to Slack’s office tools.

Slack posts slowing quarterly sales, company shares dropped 16 percent in extended trading

Slack forecast 2021 sales between $855 million and $870 million, representing a growth rate of 38 percent at the top end of the range.

Entrepreneurs should not make the unicorn status the measure of their success, says InfoEdge co-founder

Startups should aim for customer satisfaction, unit economics, profitability, and not unicorn status.

Google Assistant can now read, reply to your messages from WhatsApp, Telegram, more

Google Assistant will also be able to send a reply through the assistant to these apps.

Microsoft bans Slack for its employees; AWS and Google Docs put on 'discouraged' list

Reasons given for the ban on Slack, as per the report, was to prevent any risk to Microsoft's IP.

Slack now has over 10 million daily active users, paid customers up by 50 percent

Slack’s closest competitor is Microsoft Teams, a free chat add-on for users of Microsoft’s Office365.

Google to transition G Suite users from Hangouts to Chat and Meet by October 2019

Google says regular users will see a free version of Chat and Meet following the G Suite transition.

Slack considers making a stock exchange debut via a direct market listing

This will make Slack the second big tech company after Spotify to bypass a traditional IPO process.

Slack says it mistakenly deactivated accounts for some of the users this week

Slack said it had “inadvertently deactivated a number of accounts,”.

Slack acquires workplace chat service HipChat to take on Microsoft Teams

After the acquisition, HipChat will stop working and all of its users will move over to Slack.