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Redkix

Tired of switching between email and Slack? You may want to try Redkix

If you're tired of juggling between Slack and email, Redkix may be the service for you. It integrates both for a seamless experience.
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Use Silent Echo to talk to Alexa via Slack instead of using your voice

Meet Silent Echo, a new bot that lets you chat with Alexa using Slack. And that means that you can type instead of talk.
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Microsoft’s newest Surface Pro 2-in-1 portable gets almost everything right

Plus: Alienware specs out their highest-end gaming PC, Amazon may be eyeing a massive tech industry purchase.
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A.I. email assistant Astro integrates Slack, Amazon Alexa to organize emails

The email assistant Astro has integrated Slack and Amazon Alexa to help you declutter your inbox and keep you organized.
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Yogaslackers Slackline Kit makes it easy to practice acrobatic yoga

Yogaslackers introduces the Eline Slackline Kit, an easy-to-use system designed for beginners and those seeking to sharpen their skills.
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Developers now have more ways to create great solutions with Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft announced new ways for developers to build solutions around the company's Office 365 productivity service.
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Slack launches new artificial intelligence-powered Search feature

Slack has been routinely launching new features to its chat apps, and the latest is a new search feature powered by artificial intelligence.
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Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop, lightweight OS at education-themed press event

Microsoft held a press event in New York City on Tuesday covering five specific areas in education, and we explain what you need to know.
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Slack designs new message menus to help you communicate more efficiently

Slack has always been all about leveraging communication to boost productivity, and now, it has released message menus to help.
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Attack on Slack: Google beefs up its Hangouts services, Meet and Chat

Google's not sitting idly by while Slack monopolizes corporate chat. It's launching the business-focused Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet.
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Get Google Analytics, Salesforce, and Mixpanel information directly through Slack with Statsbot

Slack isn't just for shooting the breeze -- thanks to a new bot, you can also analyze data in your favorite chatroom.
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Send money without ever leaving your chat with PayPal’s new Slack bot

PayPal has made it possible for users to send money between accounts without ever leaving their Slack conversation.
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The end of email? Slack introduces its Enterprise Grid for large organizations

Slack's solution for big businesses, Slack Enterprise Grid, is being used by behemoths like IBM, PayPal, and Capital One.
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Organize your side conversations with ease on Slack with the Threads feature

On Wednesday, the messaging service finally debuted a much-anticipated feature -- threaded messaging, or as Slack calls it, Threads.
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Look out, Skype — you can now make video calls using Slack messaging service

On Tuesday, Slack announced its latest feature, one that has been in high demand for quite some time: one-to-one and group video calling.
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Huawei’s Mate 9 phablet phone looks to fill Note 7 vacancies

Also today: Microsoft gets chatty with new Teams business chat app, and their sleek new Surface Studio PC may be about to get some competition.
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Microsoft’s Slack killer has arrived but only as a preview for businesses

The Microsoft Teams collaboration tool made its debut Wednesday, but only as a preview for customers subscribed to Office 365 Enterprise or Business plans
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Brain transplant: Watson AI to make Slack’s chatbot smarter

IBM's Watson platform will soon make Slack's chatbot smarter and more useful than ever, by implementing the virtual agent API.
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Skype Teams emerges as Microsoft's answer to team-based chat tool Slack

Microsoft's plans to create a Slack competitor has surfaced in the form of Skype Teams, a team-based collaboration tool for chatting with co-workers online.
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You can now use Alexa on your phone through an app called Roger

If you've been itching to use Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa, on your mobile device, there's now a solution, and its name is Roger.
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WeChat Enterprise could be the app to take down Slack

Slack isn't the only office chat app around. WeChat has finally launched it's own take on the service, called WeChat Enterprise.
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Why I decided to quit Slack and start chatting on Ryver

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Platform shmatform! Whatever app you’re using, Botlist has the bot for you

Bots are taking off, set to be a part of a range of platforms, including Messenger, SMS, and Slack. Botlist is a bot app store for all of those platforms.
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Slack releases its platform road map on Trello for the world to see

You can now access Slack's Trello board, and check out exactly what's next for the team in the San Francisco based company.
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You can now order Taco Bell via Slack without ever talking to a human

As if fast food couldn't get any faster, a new integration between Slack and Taco Bell is proving the impossible to be quite possible.
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Slack climbs ‘unicorn’ ranks with new funding and $3.8 billion valuation

The popular collaboration platform Slack has raised another $200 million in venture capital financing -- and with it, a valuation close to $4 billion.
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Kayak hack lets you search for flights and hotels within Slack messages

Travel website Kayak has added support for searches within the Slack messaging tool.
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Microsoft considered $8B bid for Slack, but Bill Gates and Satya Nadella said no

Slack, the real-time communication platform, was close to receiving a bid from Microsoft that would have blown recent valuations out of the water.
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Skype’s time at Slack may be done, service to push its own VOIP tools

Slack is looking to circumvent its integrated Skype add-on, by implementing its own VOIP chat function directly through Slack.
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Peach is the new social media messaging app everyone’s talking about

On Friday, a new social network took social media by storm, and the world was introduced to Peach, a messaging app created by Vine founder, Dom Hofmann.
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Work Chat app comes to Facebook at Work

Facebook can count on the appeal of presenting a platform that people already know. This may be a great leverage point toward gaining a willing audience. 
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Slack gets hacked, turns on two-factor authentication

After unauthorized access was detected on its servers last month, Slack has introduced several new security features to stop future hacks from occurring.
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Samsung’s Milk Music now streams on your web browser

Samsung's Milk Music, the year-old streaming service previously only available on Samsung phone, tablets and smart TVs, is now available on the web.
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Slacktivists, unite! Social media campaigns aren’t just feel-good back patting

Unicef says "Likes don't save lives," ribbing social media "slacktivists" whose social consciences only extend as far as their mousepad.