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Google launches Slack rival Hangouts Chat

By Paresh Dave

Mar 1 2018 11:00AM

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Google launches Slack rival Hangouts Chat

Google has publicly released its Hangouts chat service in an effort to drive it into the workplace and steal market share from the likes of Microsoft and Slack. Hangouts Chat supports instant messaging across devices between workers, including group conversations. It also allows users ...

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