Matthew Finnegan
Senior Reporter
Matthew Finnegan covers collaboration and other enterprise IT topics for Computerworld. He joined IDG in January 2013 and is based in Sweden.
Slack gets new analytics and metrics to track use at large organizations
A host of updates is designed to make it easier for Slack admins to manage the collaboration app as deployments scale up for Slack Plus and Enterprise Grid customers.
How to get the most out of Slack
Since its arrival six years ago, Slack has evolved to become a leading cloud-based workplace collaboration app. Here's what it does, how to use it and why it could replace email in the future.
Slack’s new ‘Connect’ looks to better connect IMs, apps across companies
Building on its shared channels feature, Slack will now let up to 20 organizations collaborate in ways that could reduce the use of email for business communications.
VC money flows to collaboration start-ups as remote work booms
Collaboration software, which one analyst said was a “white-hot category pre-COVID” for investors, is “now hitting the stratosphere.”
Slack moves video and voice calls to AWS
The two companies are striking a closer "multi-year" partnership amid their competition with Microsoft.
Q&A: Box CEO Aaron Levie looks at the future of remote work
Once a company focused on cloud-based file-sharing, Box now offers features to support remote productivity and teamwork. CEO Aaron Levie talks about his company's evolution – and how the workplace continues to change.
Zoho looks to mimic the office for remote workers with user check-in, live video feeds
The company's Cliq messaging app gets a raft of features designed to help employees and managers keep track of workers in a virtual office.
Rethinking collaboration: 6 vendors offer new paths to remote work
With the need for efficient collaboration tools exploding in recent months, a variety of companies hope to refine how those tools work and what they can do. We look at six now pushing the envelope.
Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation
The popular chat tool is overhauling navigation on its mobile app to make it easier for users to quickly access needed messages and notifications.
Zoom to add end-to-end encryption with Keybase acquisition
The move is the latest effort by the videoconferencing software firm to improve security and privacy on its platform as use soars.
Box adds collaboration features, updates app UI
File preview annotations and enhanced Zoom integration have been added as the content storage provider burnishes its productivity and team collaboration credentials.
Salesforce unveils tools for a post-pandemic return to the office
Work.com contains apps and information resources to support organizations as business looks to resume operations in many countries.
5 hot video app start-ups
With Zoom now virtually a household name (for good and bad), a host of other companies hope to be the next big thing in video. Here’s a look at what five of them offer, and what makes them different.
Update: Coronavirus prompts collaboration tool makers to offer wares for free
Several vendors, including Microsoft, Google, Slack, Zoom, Cisco and LogMeIn, are making chat, videoconferencing and other collaboration services free as demand for remote working booms.
Telehealth booms amid COVID-19 crisis; virtual care is here to stay
The coronavirus pandemic that has erupted worldwide has pushed telehealth to the forefront. It's unlikely remote medicine will go away, even after the current crisis abates.
Google’s Meet video app gets Gmail integration
The company says 2 million new users a day were added recently as demand for video meetings ramps up among G Suite users.
Defense Dept. rolls out Microsoft Teams to millions of remote workers
The temporary deployment of Teams and other Office 365 tools is part of a wider effort by the sprawling agency to support staffers as remote work surges during the current pandemic.
Podcast: How will the coronavirus change the way we do our jobs?
Millions of people across a diverse array of industries are working from home for the foreseeable future. For some, it’s their first time doing so for more than a few days at a time. While we’ve all been adjusting to remote work,...
Remote working, now and forevermore?
Employees around the world are suddenly working from home full-time. Find out how to make the new WFH reality work for your organization, whether it will last beyond the pandemic, and where it might take us.
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