In the fall of 2014, Slack was the hottest startup in software. And that September, it went through a hot-startup rite of passage: It made its first acquisition. The company it bought, Spaces, had ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Salesforce is to acquire word processing and collaboration app maker Quip in a deal worth around $582 million. Quip’s cloud-based platform is designed to edit documents and spreadsheets on mobile ...