Stewart Butterfield

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,(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

“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 (...)

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(...)

Technology company Intercom has raised $50 million in funding, bringing the total funding raised to date to $116 million. The latest funding round (...)

US president Barack Obama is to speak at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival in Texas, conference organisers have said. A number of I(...)

Slack Technologies, a Silicon Valley darling that’s raised more than $300 million, wants to give some of that money back. The start-up, which runs (...)