Threatpost News Wrap, April 21, 2017

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap this year’s SOURCE Boston Conference and discuss the week in news, including the long term implications of the NSA’s DoublePulsar exploit, and the HipChat breach. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, April 21, 2017

Custom status messages are coming to Slack

 AFK, BRB, in a coffee meeting or what not — Slack, with its constant stream of communication, is probably not the the first place you’d drop an away message or status update to keep people informed of what you’re up to. All that is probably something you’d throw in some other threaded internal communications product that sits perpetually at the top of a page or… Read More Continue reading Custom status messages are coming to Slack

Custom status messages are coming to Slack

 AFK, BRB, in a coffee meeting or what not — Slack, with its constant stream of communication, is probably not the the first place you’d drop an away message or status update to keep people informed of what you’re up to. All that is probably something you’d throw in some other threaded internal communications product that sits perpetually at the top of a page or… Read More Continue reading Custom status messages are coming to Slack

Slack developers get another small tool to fill out their bot functionality

 Slack developers have been able to add a few buttons to the bottom of their responses in their in-line commands, but it seems like that was starting to get a little out of hand. It’s pretty common for developers to start bending platform functionality to the point of breaking, and in this case some developers were even adding small buttons that would essentially page through options on… Read More Continue reading Slack developers get another small tool to fill out their bot functionality

Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams

 On the surface, Astro, launching its public beta today, is a nifty but not completely necessary email client that combines machine intelligence and a bot interface to improve workflows and increase the signal to noise ratio of mail for power users. But the real story is that the startup, backed with a new $8 million Series A led by Redpoint, is gearing up to pitch enterprises on… Read More Continue reading Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams

Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams

 On the surface, Astro, launching its public beta today, is a nifty but not completely necessary email client that combines machine intelligence and a bot interface to improve workflows and increase the signal to noise ratio of mail for power users. But the real story is that the startup, backed with a new $8 million Series A led by Redpoint, is gearing up to pitch enterprises on… Read More Continue reading Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams

SafetyCulture’s mobile safety management SaaS pulls in $23M Series B, led by Index

 SafetyCulture, the maker of a b2b inspection checklist app called iAuditor, has pulled in a $23 million Series B funding led by Index Ventures. Also participating Blackbird Ventures and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, who led its Series A ro… Continue reading SafetyCulture’s mobile safety management SaaS pulls in $23M Series B, led by Index

Atlassian keeps one foot in the data center and one in the cloud with new products

 Atlassian wants the best of both the cloud and data center worlds, and it announced at the Atlassian Summit today that it was expanding its data center-cloud strategy with new products. At a time when companies are shifting their business to the … Continue reading Atlassian keeps one foot in the data center and one in the cloud with new products