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Microsoft is working on a messaging app with killer features to rival Slack

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by on September 7, 2016 at 4:28 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, collaboration, messaging, Slack, Teams


Over the past couple of years, Slack has hogged the spotlight in the team messaging space. Following its achievement of 3.5x user growth in 2015, the three-year-old company raised a total of $540 million in funding, with its last round bringing in $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation. It’s not surprising that Microsoft, which has been doubling down on productivity apps and services since Satya Nadella was named CEO in 2014, wants a piece of that pie. MSPowerUser reports that the Redmond giant is now working on Skype Teams, a group chat app for businesses that ties in…

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