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☆ Microsoft faces mega fine after EU takes issue with bundling of Teams and Office
  + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Hanna Ziady | Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
London CNN —Microsoft has violated European Union antitrust laws by bundling Teams with its other popular applications for businesses, EU officials said Tuesday, marking the bloc’s latest challenge to a US tech giant. If confirmed, the preliminary findings of an EU investigation could lead to a fine of up to 10% of Microsoft’s global revenue, which totaled $211 billion in its latest financial year. Apple, which has denied wrongdoing, also faces a huge fine if the charges are confirmed. “Preserving competition for remote communication and collaboration tools is essential as it also fosters innovation on these markets. If confirmed, Microsoft’s conduct would be illegal under our competition rules,” she added.
Persons: Apple, Slack, Margrethe Vestager Organizations: London CNN, Microsoft, Digital Markets, Apple, European Commission, Salesforce, CNN
☆ Microsoft will now let customers worldwide buy Office without Teams, following EU antitrust concerns
  + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Washington CNN —Microsoft will no longer sell its Teams collaboration software as a bundled product with its Office 365 suite anywhere in the world, the company said Monday, in the face of antitrust concerns. The decision to separate Teams from Office globally extends a previous announcement last year affecting only the European Union. And it comes after rivals such as Salesforce’s Slack complained in 2020 that Microsoft’s practices were a form of anticompetitive self-dealing. Slack’s complaint led to a European Commission antitrust investigation of Microsoft that is still ongoing. Monday’s announcement appears aimed at allaying some of those concerns, allowing customers worldwide to buy Microsoft’s Office software without Teams included and the ability to buy Teams as a standalone product for business customers.
Persons: Salesforce’s Slack Organizations: Washington CNN, Microsoft, European Union, Economic, European Locations: Switzerland
☆ Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd steps down as CEO. She’ll be replaced by Slack’s leader
  + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
New York CNN —Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down as chief executive after nearly a decade running the dating app company. Wolfe Herd will remain at Bumble as executive chair. Wolfe Herd started her career at rival dating service Tinder, which she co-founded. Today, Bumble is the parent company of four apps — Bumble, Official, Badoo and Fruitz — and the Bumble app has expanded to include features to help people find friends and professional connections. When Bumble made its initial public offering in 2021, Wolfe Herd, then 31, became one of the world’s youngest self-made female billionaires.
Persons: Bumble, Whitney Wolfe, Wolfe, Lidiane Jones, Slack, ” Wolfe Herd, Jones, Wolfe Herd, Andrey Andreev, Andreev, —, Salesforce, Sonos, ” Jones Organizations: New, New York CNN, Wall Street, Group, Microsoft, Bumble Locations: New York
☆ Microsoft swerves to avoid EU speeding ticket
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Microsoft Teams app is seen on the smartphone placed on the keyboard in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021. Yet Microsoft has arguably created a lot more value using its market clout. Back in 2016, Slack was the hottest new product for helping office workers communicate with over 4 million users. Combining Teams with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 software bundles gave the messaging and collaboration app a big leg up. Microsoft said on a call in April that Teams had over 300 million monthly users.
Persons: Slack, Robert Cyran, Pernod Ricard, Mukesh Ambani’s, Peter Thal Larsen, Sharon Lam Organizations: Microsoft, Reuters, Big Tech, European Union, Apps, X, Thomson Locations: Europe
☆ Microsoft under European antitrust investigation over Teams
  + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Washington CNN —European officials are investigating whether Microsoft’s practice of bundling its Teams software with Office 365 is anticompetitive, the European Commission said Thursday. The EU probe follows a formal complaint by Microsoft’s rival, the Salesforce-owned Slack, in 2020, alleging that Microsoft has illegally circumvented competition. By packaging Teams together with its “well-entrenched” productivity suite, including apps such as Word and Outlook, Microsoft could be effectively blocking customers from seeking out rival collaboration tools, the Commission said. “We respect the European Commission’s work on this case and take our own responsibilities very seriously,” said a Microsoft spokesperson. We first need to identify indeed if there is a breach of antitrust considerations.”The in-depth investigation reflects rising EU antitrust scrutiny for Microsoft, which was last fined on a competition violation in 2013 for not honoring a commitment to give European consumers a choice in web browsers.
Persons: Slack, ”, “, Arianna Podesta, Slack’s, Jonathan Prince Organizations: Washington CNN, European Commission, EU, Microsoft, Antitrust
☆ Slack Experiences a Brief but Widespread Outage
  + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Chris Stanford | More About Chris Stanford | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Slack, the widely used messaging platform, experienced an outage of just over an hour early Thursday, disrupting life in offices around the world (including this reporter’s). The 65-minute disruption began at 5 a.m. Eastern time, after a change was made to the service that manages Slack’s internal system communication, the company said on its website. During the downtime, the company said, “Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages, using workflows and various other actions in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more.”At 6:13 a.m., the company said, “Slack is now back up. Users may need to reload their apps to see this restoration.”
Persons: Slack, We’re, “ Slack, ” Organizations: ”
☆ Slack’s New CEO Brings Generative AI to the Workplace Conversation
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Slack CEO Lidiane Jones spoke at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York on Wednesday. Photo: Bryan Bedder for The Wall Street JournalLidiane Jones, the new chief executive of Slack, is betting that the future of the messaging app—purchased by software giant Salesforce for $27.7 billion about two years ago—will rest on the combination of their technologies using generative artificial intelligence. Corporate technology leaders have questioned whether the addition of Slack’s collaboration and communications features makes Salesforce’s flagship customer-relationship-management software that much more useful. But the rise of generative AI, the technology behind ChatGPT, has prompted some to reassess the value of combining the two platforms.
☆ ChatGPT is coming to Slack
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
New York CNN —Next time you’re wondering how to respond to a colleague on Slack, you may be able to ask ChatGPT for help. Salesforce, the company behind Slack, announced Tuesday that it’s partnering with OpenAI to launch a ChatGPT app for the workplace messaging platform. The new tool will use the AI chatbot to “deliver instant conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance directly in Slack,” according to Salesforce. The move to bring ChatGPT to Slack is just the latest example of the AI chatbot finding its way into more services. Salesforce and OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT app for Slack.
☆ Salesforce Customers Not Swayed by Slack, Analysts Say
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +6 min
Salesforce reported about $402 million in Slack subscription and support revenue in the fiscal third quarter ending Oct. 31. Meanwhile, on Wednesday Salesforce said it would lay off 10% of its workforce as customers take a more cautious approach to spending. “The Slack acquisition by Salesforce has not changed the trajectory of Salesforce up or down,” said Tim Crawford, CIO strategic adviser at Los Angeles-based enterprise IT advisory firm AVOA. “That’s really the struggle for customers, to maintain the pace with a company like Salesforce,” he said. Forrester’s Ms. Herbert said the recent departures of Mr. Taylor and the Slack executives might signal that Salesforce is shifting the focus back to its core products.
☆ Slack’s Stewart Butterfield and Away’s Jen Rubio List San Francisco Victorian for $19.8 Million
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Katherine Clarke | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. Slack’s Stewart Butterfield and his wife, Away co-founder Jen Rubio , are listing their San Francisco Victorian for $19.8 million, according to listing agency Sotheby’s International Realty.
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