Google is pushing Chat as a tool for team collaboration – and in a move aimed squarely at Slack users – it has added its own “Huddles”. The instant voice meeting option will be available in direct ...

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Slack often gets credit for creating the category of solutions that some of us refer to as "workstream collaboration" or "team chat," though I don't recall hearing either of those terms last week at ...

Google Chat is rolling out instant voice meetings — similar to Slack’s Huddles — that let you quickly switch to a voice or video call from within a chat. Google is not giving the feature a new name, ...

After nearly a year in beta, Google today announced that its Slack-competing Hangouts Chat platform is ready for prime time. The internet giant announced last March that it was splitting its Hangouts ...

How do you reproduce the immediacy of everyone working in the same office when we're all working from different locations? It quickly became evident last year that sitting on end-to-end Zoom calls isn ...

At one time, if your organization used Google Workspace and you asked me to recommend a team chat tool, I would have suggested Slack. For many uses, Slack was a solid selection as a multiplatform ...

Besides the upcoming homescreen redesign and Duet AI, Google Chat is getting voice messages and interoperability with third-party messaging services. Google refers to voice messages in Chat as audio ...