Email & Collaboration Industry Fortnightly: July 3, 2019

Putting A Price On Chat: Slack Stock Jumps On First Day Of Trading

Slack's IPO has definitely made the rounds in the collaboration world. This post contains some interesting metrics:
- Slack has 10 million users with 3 million being paid users.
- 88,000 customers, with 575 customers paying $100,000 or more in ARR and accounting for approximately 40% of total revenue.
- $400 million in revenue

With Slack’s Buzzy IPO, Email Takes Another Hit

I think the headline is designed to attract clicks, but the article does contain some super interesting usage stats for Microsoft for Teams, Facebook's WorkPlace, Webex, etc.

Microsoft bans Slack and discourages AWS and Google Docs use internally

On the one hand, I understand that all companies, especially big ones like Microsoft, need to control where their important data goes. However, it seems a little extreme to ban most versions of Slack and require a "business justification" for any use of Google Docs. Even Microsoft-owned GitHub is discouraged for “Highly Confidential types of information, specs or code.”

If Slack is so good, why are so many companies trying to fix it?

Another “clickbait-y” headline, but still an interesting read about the pros and cons of internal chat in the workplace.

Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

We've been working hard the last few months preparing for this.

Trump officials weigh encryption crackdown

The Trump administration is said to be considering a ban to end-to-end encryption, which would affect services like WhatsApp, Apple's Messages etc

Google working on ‘Fast Share,’ Android Beam replacement and AirDrop competitor

AirDrop is a very useful tool, and it’s interesting to see Google develop yet another competitor. The ubiquitousness of Android makes this feature very interesting, but it’s not clear whether it’ll work on non-Nexus devices.