![]() ![]() Remember, Amazon is not just an online retailer Amazon Web Services is already a major force in the corporate world. So in the broader sense, the idea that Amazon is flirting with a Slack takeover is just another chapter in the Office Wars of Silicon Valley. Even for Silicon Valley’s most formidable companies, a multibillion-dollar acquisition isn’t taken lightly. Instead, it launched a competing collaborative group-chat service called Teams in November. ( The Atlantic has used the platform since 2014.) Last year, Microsoft was considering scooping up Slack for itself. It’s quite popular in American newsrooms-including at The Washington Post, which the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns. As of last year, Slack claimed 77 Fortune 100 companies among its clients. It now has about 5 million daily users, including more than 1 million paying users. The startup has enjoyed extraordinary growth since its 2013 debut. It’s no surprise that tech giants have taken interest in Slack, with its elegant, user-friendly interface that keeps employees ever-connected to work via their smartphones. A deal could give Slack a valuation of $9 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. Amazon is rumored to be mulling a purchase of Slack, the fast-growing corporate chat platform. ![]()
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