Hey, friends! It’s that time again. Another week has passed us by, which means another issue of Week in Review — the newsletter where we recap the top stories to hit TechCrunch’s front page in the past seven days. Sign up here! The top story this week was about a new set of documents detailing how (and how often) the Department of Homeland Security taps third-party data brokers to obtain potentially sensitive location info while “sidestepping the legal process government… Source link
Read More »Twitter employee said on Slack that staff would be subject of HR investigation if they tweeted like Elon Musk, who now owns 9% of the company
Elon MuskHANNIBAL HANSCHKE /Getty Images Twitter plans to host an internal AMA with board member Elon Musk, according to The Washington Post. Some employees were anxious about Musk’s role, according to company messages viewed by The Post. One staffer asked if board members were held to the same tweeting standards as employees. A Twitter employee said on the company’s Slack channel that staff would be the subject of an HR investigation if they tweeted like Tesla founder Elon Musk, who now owns 9%… Source link
Read More »Google Chat review: Terrible as Slack clone, but good as a consumer chat app
Enlarge / Google Chat, in just some of its many form factors. Google Chat officially launched for consumers recently, and that means the time has come to dive back into everyone’s favorite subject: Google messaging services! Google Chat is the latest in Google’s long and prodigious line of (usually) short-lived messaging applications, but this one is a bit more important than most of the others. While the “~2 years and under” club is packed… Source link
Read More »Slack sees 39% user growth as it beats Q1 expectations
Slack has been under pressure for not growing as fast as other work-from-home stocks. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Slack (WORK), the online chat tool that has become the main way many people have communicated with their coworkers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reported its fiscal Q1 2022 earnings after the bell on Thursday, beating expectations on the top and bottom line. Here are the most important numbers from the report compared with what analysts were expecting as compiled by Bloomberg.
Read More »Massive internet outage hits U.S. East Coast taking down Gmail, Slack, and Amazon AWS
Benzinga Apple Expected To Join The $100 Billion Revenue Club When Earnings Are Released Did someone say $100 billion? And then some? Wall Street analysts did. A consensus sees Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) as joining that rarefied corporate crowd that’s broken the $100 billion in quarterly revenues mark when it opens the books Wednesday on its fiscal Q1. That’s a record for AAPL, of course, and may have been assisted by holiday sales of its new iPhone 12. But it’s one in a series of fresh… Source link
Read More »Why Salesforce reportedly making a huge play for Slack isn’t a shock
TipRanks J.P. Morgan: 2 Stocks to Consider Buying (and 1 to Stay Away From) In a report on current market conditions – and the strategic view going forward – JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic sees plenty of reasons for optimism. Kolanovic sees that risk has eased in the last few weeks, and taking the usual daily fluctuations into account, markets are likely to see a sustained rally.The biggest news, in Kolanovic’s view, are the positive reports about the rapid development and imminent… Source link
Read More »Daily Buzz: Google’s Plan to Make Gmail More Like Slack: Associations Now
What’s This? Associations Now Brand Connection provides opportunities for advertisers to connect with the Associations Now audience. All content is paid for by the advertiser. The Associations Now editorial staff is not involved in creating this content. The company is more closely integrating video and chat elements into a Gmail redesign. Also: Think… Source link
Read More »Gmail is integrating Google Chat, Rooms, and Meet to take on Microsoft and Slack
True to Google’s penchant for just announcing things right after they’ve leaked, the company has unveiled a grand redesign of Gmail for G Suite business users ahead of next week’s Google Cloud conference. The app isn’t so much “Gmail” anymore as it is a unified app for all of Google’s communication platforms: Gmail, Chat, Rooms, and Meet. It will be available as an “early access preview” to G Suite customers this week and roll out to all G Suite customers later this… Source link
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