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Work chat app Slack suffers services outage

Affected users: Is this a not-so-subtle hint from the boss?

Off-Prem22 Feb 2022 | 13

Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning

Software01 Dec 2021 |

Google Cloud UK boss boomerangs back to Salesforce to run freshly acquired Slack's EMEA ops

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

Applications05 Oct 2021 | 1

Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services

Updated 'The internet is a complex system'

Networks30 Sep 2021 | 24

Cut us some Slack: $27bn+ later, collab tool officially belongs to Salesforce

Cloud apps giant sets off to invent the future of work and beat Microsoft Teams

Off-Prem22 Jul 2021 | 20

This always-on culture we're in is awful. How do we stop it? Oh, sorry, hold on – just had another notification

Feature Turn off. Tune out. Relax

Legal30 Jun 2021 | 134

Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger

Hold up, just a few more questions...

SaaS17 Feb 2021 | 4

Slack fingers AWS auto-scaling failure in January outage postmortem

'We attempted to add 1,200 servers to our web tier' – but with a saturated network it did no good

SaaS02 Feb 2021 | 3

Slack has entered the Matrix: Element builds a bridge to realm of encrypted, decentralised comms

Element Matrix Services adds to the messaging interoperability toolbox

Security20 Jan 2021 | 9

Slack serves up out-of-order messages, shaky comms as world goes back to work

Updated Where are the documents? I'm waiting! Fancy a coffee? Happy new year!

Software04 Jan 2021 | 17

Salesforce to buy Slack for $28bn in cash, shares – and vows to make it the new face of Customer 360

If shareholders like the somewhat small-ish premium offered

Software01 Dec 2020 | 29

Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions

Which rather kicks a hole in the planned debut of Slack-like Salesforce Anywhere

Software26 Nov 2020 | 18

Yak-yak app Slack cracks, flacks gobsmacked: Can this bug be whacked or will code be rolled back?

IRC-for-the-2020s up and down as it catches a bad case of the Mondays

Software05 Oct 2020 | 6

Even with a 49% uplift in sales and a 46% drop in expenses, Slack still can't turn a profit

Where's our Zoom miracle, cry investors. Growth for hipster chat platform expected to slow as 2020 grinds on

SaaS09 Sep 2020 | 17

Only EU can help us, pleads Slack as it slings competition complaint against Microsoft Teams

Updated Behold the ghost of Browser Wars past

Software22 Jul 2020 | 70

Salesforce plans to write Slack integration out of the equation by rolling its own messaging and collaboration app

Salesforce Anywhere beta due to drop in July, full release in Q4

SaaS25 Jun 2020 | 3

Slack Connect: Hipster chat platform to let different orgs play in the same channel – only for paying users, mind

Teams rival hopes to consign cross-business email ping-pong to history

SaaS25 Jun 2020 | 4

Video? That's so not what we care about, says Slack, as it signs video deal with AWS

All Amazon staff are slackers now as AWS chat backend Chime's in

Software05 Jun 2020 | 7

It's not you, it's Slack: Chat app falls down – and at such a very convenient moment

Updated Experienced ‘degraded performance’ earlier in the day, now seems to just be TITSUP

Software13 May 2020 | 7

Slack hooks up with Microsoft Teams and Zoom VoIP calls

Maybe the world needs the Pidgin of voice and video right now?

Software02 Apr 2020 | 8

Adobe and Slack report buoyant revenues, but is that a COVID-19 iceberg ahead?

Uneasy Broadcom withdraws annual guidance

SaaS13 Mar 2020 | 3

Microsoft, Google, Slack, Zoom et al struggling to deal with a spike in remote tools thanks to coronavirus

Tech companies are loving the attention while keeping schtum on outages

SaaS12 Mar 2020 | 25

Electron devs bond at Covalence conference: We speak to those mastering the cross-platform tech behind Slack, Visual Studio Code, etc

Analysis Derided app framework ready for broader acceptance

Software27 Jan 2020 | 29

Your workmates might still be reading that 'unshared' Slack document

IRC-for-millennials biz shrugs: Yeah, we might fix that later

Security16 Dec 2019 | 15

Microsoft stocking fillers: Powershell 7, maybe even next year's Windows 10. But forget about Surface Earbuds

Roundup Also: Teams and Slack get the handbags out

Software25 Nov 2019 | 9

Using Teams and Azure DevOps? There's an app for that, says Microsoft

Cute, says rival Slack, polishing its library of 1,800 apps and an updated developer toolkit

SaaS23 Oct 2019 | 2

Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Analysis Why Teams is a key product despite its frustrations – and yes, a Linux client is on the way

Software14 Oct 2019 | 77

Loss-making $15bn hipster chat biz Slack suddenly less appetising to investors as it predicts deeper losses

Battle with Microsoft not letting up

Software05 Sep 2019 | 57

2015 database hack is the terrible gift that keeps giving for Slack: Tens of thousands of passwords now reset

Yak app still cleaning up after four-year-old cyber-break-in

Security19 Jul 2019 | 10

How do you know it's finally the weekend? Clock hits 5pm? No, Slack goes down on a Friday afternoon in June

Rap for crap yakety-yak app chaps as chats zapped in hours-long nap

Software28 Jun 2019 | 14

Hipster yap app chaps Slack finally strap into NYSE: Shares of 'WORK' open at $38.50 apiece

More like 'SHIRK' amirite

Software20 Jun 2019 | 10

Open-source chat plat toasts rival after picking up $50m in funding: 'The better Slack does, the better Mattermost does'

Collaboration software hot with investors

On-Prem19 Jun 2019 | 8

Crypto-chaps on scam rap in a flap over Slack chat tap, want court case zapped: 'Attorney-client priv info' in messages

Duo also ask for two-year delay in celeb-studded ICO trial

Security01 May 2019 | 5

Slack files for IPO, warns of bumpy valuation as it swerves big bank underwriters

Hipsters rejoice as shares prepped for debut on New York Stock Exchange

Software29 Apr 2019 | 6

Turn on, tune in, cash out: Hipster chat plat Slack whacks beardie millennials with features

But is it enough to combat the Microsoft juggernaut?

Software25 Apr 2019 | 13

Slack slings crypto-keys at big biz, union gets worked over, VPN owners probed, trolls trouble vets, and more

Roundup Plus, two crooks craft a veritable fraudocopia

Security24 Mar 2019 | 15

Guess who's addicted to GitHub, busy on Slack, stuck in 2015? No, not another hipster: It's the Slub backdoor malware

Panic, flee, cry – or just update Windows for fsck's sake

Security08 Mar 2019 | 9

What matters most to open-source chat plat Mattermost? To shove this fresh $20m into security, privacy

Slack: Cute Series A. Check out our proposed public listing...

Software05 Feb 2019 | 1

Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo

Hipsters choke on pumpkin spice latte as the beloved original is tipped into a dumpster

Applications17 Jan 2019 | 41

Slap for Slack chat app after US, Canada chaps zapped in Iranian IP address map whack

Export ban compliance turns into geo-location gaffe fest

Software21 Dec 2018 | 26

Microsoft to rule the biz chat roost – survey

Slack off, hipsters

Personal Tech11 Dec 2018 | 23

Yakety-yak app HipChat whacked in Slack chat chaps' tech snatch pact

Slack swallows Atlassian's blueprints for biz apps – which now face the axe

Software27 Jul 2018 | 9

Farewell then, Slack: The grown-ups have arrived

Comment Rumours of email's death have been greatly exaggerated

Software13 Jul 2018 | 71

Microsoft Teams goes free, as free as the wind blows... up to a point

Redmond broadsides Slack with unlimited message history and more storage

Software12 Jul 2018 | 19

Put WhatsApp, Slack, admin privileges in a blender and what do you get? Wickr

But are enterprises willing to pay for this suite smoothie?

Software11 Jul 2018 | 15

Hipster horror! Slack has gone TITSUP: Total inability to support user procrastination

Updated Work-avoidance tool avoids work

SaaS27 Jun 2018 | 75

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mark the life of Slack for Windows Phone

Farewell, dear app, we hardly knew ye (which might have been the problem)

Software18 Jun 2018 | 18

Productivity knocks: I've got 99 Slacks, but my work's not done

What to do when a productivity app is anything but

Devops17 Apr 2018 | 39

Microsoft's Teams lights solitary candle, hipsters don't notice

Slacklike turns one

SaaS12 Mar 2018 | 37

Slack cuts ties to IRC and XMPP, cos they don't speak Emoji

Gateways to close on May 15th, leaving you almost ten whole weeks to rebuild integrations

Software09 Mar 2018 | 52

Google powers up latest app it'll cancel in two years: Hangouts Chat

Chocolate fac crack a whack at Slack pack with yak yak stack

Software28 Feb 2018 | 22

Slack bots have the keys to your processes. What could go wrong? Well...

They're bots, not freakin' Skynet

Devops28 Feb 2018 | 27

IBM gives Services staff until 2019 to get agile

Exclusive 'Agile Ceremonies', Slack instead of email, but still some red tape to cut through

On-Prem26 Feb 2018 | 53

Skype, Slack, other apps inherit Electron vuln

Updated Devs, check your protocol handling, patch if necessary

Security24 Jan 2018 | 7

Slack apologises to Europe for TITSUP* services

Productivity melts, economy dives... actually, neither is true

Software16 Nov 2017 | 10

Hipsterverse horror as Slack takes Halloween hiatus

Two-hour outage sees users forced to speak to each other

Devops01 Nov 2017 | 10