communications tools
Staffbase raises $115M at a $1.1B valuation to help internal comms teams get their message across
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its by-product of social distancing to help reduce the spread of infection, led to many organizations working in a far more distributed way than they had…
Sinch acquires Pathwire, the company behind Mailgun and Mailjet, for $1.9B to add email into its API-based communications platform
Sinch, the Swedish company that competes with Twilio and others in the world of messaging and other communication APIs is making another big M&A play to build out its platform.…
Slack’s new video and voice tools are nod to changing face of work
Slack started talking about a new set of communications tools to enhance the text-based channels at the end of last year. Today the company released a new audio tool called…
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‘One day we were in the office and the next we were working from home’
“I never imagined that we would have had to put our pandemic plan into action. But because we had a tested strategy already in place, we didn’t miss a beat when COVID-19 struck.”
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat
Visual Studio Live Share is Microsoft’s tool for real-time collaborative code editing in the Visual Studio IDE and the Visual Studio Code editor. Earlier this year, the company also launched…
Earlier this week, Slack announced that it has filed the paperwork to go public at some point later this year. The big question is, will the company exit into the…
Keybase launches fully encrypted Slack-like communications tool — and it’s free
Keybase added to its encrypted tool kit today when it launched Keybase Teams, an open source, Slack-like communications tool with end-to-end encryption. Desktop and mobile versions are available for download now.…
