Stewart Butterfield
15 results

Arcadia’s lost idyll, Slack’s big deal and the Dow’s ‘monster’ November
- Economy
- December 5, 2020, 16:16
Image of the week: Fall of Arcadia In an echo of a trend seen in parts of Asia at the start of the Covid-19 crisis, a mannequin in a central London f(...)

Salesforce to buy Slack in deal worth $27.7bn
- Technology
- December 2, 2020, 14:08
Salesforce on Tuesday capped cloud computing’s 2020 work-from-home boom with an announcement that it would pay $27.7 billion for workplace chat app Sl(...)

Intercom moves over 40 R&D jobs back to Dublin
- Technology
- June 9, 2020, 11:45
Irish-founded technology company Intercom has relocated more than 40 research and development jobs back to Dublin as part of a cost-cutting plan resul(...)

Slack valued at more than $20bn in stock market debut
- Technology
- June 20, 2019, 20:26
Slack, the workplace chat app with an avid following in Silicon Valley, landed on Wall Street with a $20 billion(€17.7 billion) valuation on Thursday,(...)

Web Summit’s tone changes as tech industry comes under scrutiny
- Innovation
- November 8, 2018, 02:45
There were dark clouds over Lisbon earlier this week with many of those arriving for the start of Web Summit a little taken aback by the lack of sunsh(...)

AI might be best and worst thing to happen to humanity – Stephen Hawking
- Technology
- November 6, 2017, 20:36
Artificial intelligence (AI) may “be the best or worst thing to ever happen to humanity”, scientist Stephen Hawking told an audience of 60,000 techies(...)

Web Summit kicks off its second year in Lisbon
- Technology
- November 5, 2017, 18:02
It’s that time of the year when the winners and the wannabes gather together for the Web Summit. But after the novelty value of a sparkly new venue a(...)

Web Summit has ‘crash pad’ in Dublin due to housing crisis
- Technology
- August 22, 2017, 12:00
The company behind the Web Summit has a permanent six-bedroom “crash pad” for new employees arriving in Dublin as part of efforts to circumvent the ho(...)

Slack finds home in Dublin – away from Silicon Docks
- Technology
- December 15, 2016, 05:30
“This is by far the nicest office we have, I think. Until we open the next one.” Slack cofounder Cal Henderson is on his first visit to the company’s (...)

Jobs boost as Slack expands European HQ in Dublin
- Technology
- April 13, 2016, 00:01
Tech company Slack is set to add an additional 80 jobs to its Irish workforce as it expands its European headquarters in Dublin. The company will emp(...)