Google opens its Slack competitor, Hangouts Chat, to everyone

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Google Hangouts is officially a business tool.

After months of testing, Google is opening its business messaging platform, Hangouts Chat, to everyone. The Slack-like service for team communication is now open to all of the company's business customers who use its G Suite services.

Hangouts Chat, first unveiled nearly a year ago, is a lot like Slack in that teams can communicate in group chat and one-to-one messages. It also supports integrations with third-party apps and bots. 

Google is a relatively late entrant to the business-messaging software game. At this point, Slack and Microsoft, with its Teams app, both have significant head-starts. But there are a few areas where Google is hoping to differentiate itself from the competition. Read more...

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Google opens its Slack competitor, Hangouts Chat, to everyone Google opens its Slack competitor, Hangouts Chat, to everyone Reviewed by mimisabreena on Thursday, March 01, 2018 Rating: 5

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