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As more companies find themselves with workers spread across the globe, it's become harder – and more important – to keep employees connected.

With employees feeling bombarded by email, and important messages getting lost in the mix, TD Ameritrade execs decided to embrace Slack.

Slack is getting an overhaul designed to cut memory utilisation in half, speed up launch times and make connecting with colleagues faster.

Most organisations have at least two team chat apps, a situation that could lead to communication silos and problems for IT.

The cloud file storage vendor continues to reinvent itself as it looks to compete with collaboration and productivity rivals like Google, Microsoft and Slack.

Stewart Butterfield wants to build a super bot that retrieves and correlates information from any enterprise application to find employees answers to sophisticated questions.

Developers share their top tips for being lazy (i.e., increasing coding efficiency) using the popular group chat app.

As Facebook prepares to launch its Facebook at Work enterprise collaboration toolset, popular messaging app Slack continues to gain passionate users. Experts say a Slack acquisition could help Facebook ride the smaller company's momentum into enterprise.

CIOs are quickly losing control of the applications and platforms their employees choose to use at work. Personal preferences for cloud-based apps from Google, Box and Slack, among others, have spilled into the workforce at an astonishing rate during the past 18 months. Unsanctioned apps and services can negatively impact workflow, productivity and the general health of a company, but the potential damage can be offset with the right IT mindset, support and flexibility.

Slack is one of those rare business tools that comes along once in a while that shifts the technology landscape. In a nutshell, Slack is a team collaboration app that essentially turns email into a group effort, allowing users to create channels where discussions take place in public so everyone can participate. While Slack has some serious competition from apps like Convo and Circuit, it seems to be gaining the most momentum.