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Now Salesforce officially owns Slack

The Verge

In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98 percent of knowledge workers use Slack, it does matter to Microsoft because the relative importance of email is hugely diminished,” Butterfield said.

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Slack CEO: Microsoft is ?unhealthily preoccupied with killing us?

The Verge

In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98 percent of knowledge workers use Slack, it does matter to Microsoft because the relative importance of email is hugely diminished,” explains Butterfield.

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Tableau partners with the government of India to build students’ data skills

Tableau

Working with a group of visionary educators, we’ve been able to achieve amazing milestones, such as introducing Tableau to all first year students at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018. We are happy to collaborate with Tableau to bring data skills into higher education nationwide. We have provided more than 1.7

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This startup out of Carnegie Mellon wrangled my tabs once and for all

TechCrunch

If you’re a “knowledge worker,” you invariably end your day with a slew of tabs that collectively become your to-do list, your reading list, your shopping list, your assorted communications channels. EDT, I have a line of tabs of stories I want to read culled from Twitter, various Slack channels, email newsletters and homepages.

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Tableau partners with the government of India to build students’ data skills

Tableau

Working with a group of visionary educators, we’ve been able to achieve amazing milestones, such as introducing Tableau to all first year students at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018. We are happy to collaborate with Tableau to bring data skills into higher education nationwide. We have provided more than 1.7

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Anthill connects frontline workers to company resources through text messaging

TechCrunch

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time. billion people globally, who never sit at computers to do their jobs.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

TechCrunch

While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford , a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria.

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