slack
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How to Create Custom Emojis and Where You Can Actually Use Them
Was there ever a time that we were able to communicate without emojis? It’s difficult to remember, but these little icons are now an essential part of our digital communications, and if the thousands of currently available options aren’t enough for you, then you can create your own — and we’re going to show you…
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Slack’s Having An Identity Crisis
Slack is a company in trouble. For some reason, the workplace messaging app — one that’s cursed not only with occasional outages, but a mind-numbing layout and features explicitly designed to snitch on all of our DM’s — has faced nothing but slumping stocks since its debut on the public market last year. But rather…
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Microsoft’s Doing the Monopoly Thing Again, Slack Says
Workplace messaging software company Slack is accusing Microsoft of monopoly behaviour in an antitrust complaint filed today to European Union regulators. Unsurprisingly, the accusations hinge on the same practice that helped make Microsoft rich in the first place.
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Is Your Workplace Slack A Surveillance Tool?
Slack markets itself as a tool to increase productivity and portrays other forms of communication, particularly email, as outmoded. Even employees who sit feet away from one another in open areas eventually prefer slacking each other rather than communicating verbally. It seems somehow easier, after all, and maybe less disruptive. But it also feels like…