Slack

Slack hopes to disrupt email just like email disrupted the fax machine—making it technology from the olden days. The workplace collaboration application company, which is planning a stock placement on the New York Stock Exchange, says its app has replaced email for many organizations. Slack...

This year was always expected to be a big year for IPOs.  Even before the year started, there were expectations for a number of tech unicorns to headline the 2019 IPO class, including Uber, Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) Palantir, Airbnb, Pinterest Inc (NYSE: PINS), Slack, and Postmates.  So far,...

Slack Technologies Inc., a provider of cloud-based proprietary team collaboration tools and services, plans on listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. What Happened Slack confirmed Wall Street Journal's earlier report and released its S-1 regulatory filing. The document shows Slack...

Despite a rough fourth quarter, 2018 was a robust year for U.S. IPOs, with deal numbers and proceeds rising 19 percent and 32 percent, respectively, to 190 and $47 billion, according to IPO investment manager Renaissance Capital. The firm attributed the buoyancy to abundant health care, tech and...

The future of work messaging appears significantly less laborious, increasingly efficient and more emoji-clad with software like Slack. The popular platform is eyeing an early 2019 initial public offering, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company is valued at $7 billion, the report...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is emerging as a potent retail and tech conglomerate, given its diversification into several areas. The latest foray could be into messaging app, named Anytime, if one were to go by a report that appeared in AFTV News. The report said Amazon has begun collecting...

The Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference is at the halfway mark and dozens of the world’s most influential people have three days left to forge relationships and make deals in comfort and secrecy. The week-long conference is hosted and wholly funded by Allen & Company, a private...

After a so-so 2016, will the IPO markets see redemption in 2017? According to a Ernst & Young report , the deal numbers and proceeds raised fell in 2016, with the deal number by 16 percent and proceeds by 33 percent. In the Americas, where the U.S. dominates, the global IPO market share...

President Barack Obama's second term will come to an end in just a few short weeks. CNBC took the opportunity to list several companies that are now valued at more than $1 billion — dubbed "unicorns" within the venture capital community. These are all impressive stories of entrepreneurship...

Credit Suisse previewed Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) ahead of its highly anticipated Q3 earnings report set for November 2. The Swiss bank upped Facebook's price target to $170 from $154. Credit Suisse is expecting a 26 percent EPS CAGR over the next five years and feels investors have overcome...

According to the report published Wednesday, Pacific Crest analysts (after attending the summit in Santa Clara) believe Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to capitalize on the multiyear secular shift to cloud platforms. "While AWS remains a key enabler within the...

From private sector forecasts to the IMF, the Fed sees a rosier economy than most which could mean that tapering fears are overdone and that stimulative policies are going nowhere anytime soon. Markets have plunged in the face of the Federal Reserve's latest statement, in which the Federal Open...