The price of shares in the workplace software company Slack Technologies surged nearly 50% to close at $38.62 after the company's debut Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ...

(Bloomberg) -- Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to buy Slack Technologies Inc. for $27.7 billion in cash and stock, giving the corporate software giant a popular workplace-communications platform in one of ...

Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. Slack has become a big enough deal that it ...

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In his constant attempts to build a video game, Cal Henderson ended up creating Flickr and Slack. He still hasn’t built the game, but has stumbled into the biggest play of his lifetime. The problem ...

With an eye for bigger business customers, Slack is finally releasing a feature that power users have requested for years. Slack unveiled "Threads" on Wednesday, a tool that allows users of its ...

Two Women Sitting in Front of Computer Monitor. — Photo: by Pexels Two Women Sitting in Front of Computer Monitor. — Photo: by Pexels Slack has suffered a cybersecurity incident during the holidays ...

Slack Technologies makes its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday through a direct listing of its shares. The company named Microsoft as its ‘primary competitor’ in its regulatory filings.

Slack is the fastest growing workplace software ever. The company's CEO Stewart Butterfield co-founded the company in August of 2013, as a cloud-based team collaboration tool. As fast as the ...

Rani Molla was a senior correspondent at Vox and has been focusing her reporting on the future of work. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade — often in charts — including at ...