Stories by Matthew Finnegan

Atlassian’s Stride bites the dust less than a year after launch as Slack moves to strengthen its team chat position with this week’s deal.

Although the company unveiled a range of updates at Cloud Next this week, it faces a long slog as it seeks to displace Microsoft in the workplace.

As companies look for new ways to share info with workers – especially those who may work remotely – they may soon turn to podcasts. The hard part: creating content that engages.

The free version of Teams, which doesn’t require an Office 365 subscription, is designed to counter competition from Slack.

LogMeIn-owned videoconferencing tool also gets text chat function.

As cloud services become ubiquitous in the workplace, expectations for uptime rise.

Younger and older employees tend to be more receptive to new ways of working than those in the middle, according to Gartner.

Voice-activated virtual assistants are showing up at home, in the car and – increasingly – in the office. Amazon hopes to further that trend by targeting Alexa for Business for the workplace. Here’s what it is and how it works.

The move is part of the company’s broader plan to make G Suite apps more appealing to enterprise customers.

More than 150 large organizations now use Enterprise Grid, which was unveiled a year ago.

Six months after a limited launch, the HipChat successor (and rival to Slack) now has ‘tens of thousands’ of teams using it.

The newest voice-activated A.I. assistant differs from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others with a white-label service approach that works in the background.

A year after launch, the company’s team collaboration tool is now used by 200,000 companies.

With so many collaboration and communications tools now available, companies face app fragmentation and hurdles to ensuring their workers can actually connect.

The company plans to use artificial intelligence for Google Calendar and Docs features and tie it all tightly with G Suite.