![]() But Amazon’s possible interest also signals some clear ways of thinking about how the company wants to position itself in the future. Remember, Amazon is not just an online retailer Amazon Web Services is already a major force in the corporate world. So in the broader sense, the idea that Amazon is flirting with a Slack takeover is just another chapter in the Office Wars of Silicon Valley. Even for Silicon Valley’s most formidable companies, a multibillion-dollar acquisition isn’t taken lightly. Instead, it launched a competing collaborative group-chat service called Teams in November. ( The Atlantic has used the platform since 2014.) Last year, Microsoft was considering scooping up Slack for itself. It’s quite popular in American newsrooms-including at The Washington Post, which the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns. As of last year, Slack claimed 77 Fortune 100 companies among its clients. It now has about 5 million daily users, including more than 1 million paying users. The startup has enjoyed extraordinary growth since its 2013 debut. It’s no surprise that tech giants have taken interest in Slack, with its elegant, user-friendly interface that keeps employees ever-connected to work via their smartphones. A deal could give Slack a valuation of $9 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. Amazon is rumored to be mulling a purchase of Slack, the fast-growing corporate chat platform.
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