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03-01-2018, 07:58 AM
Google opens its Slack competitor, Hangouts Chat, to everyone
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Google (https://mashable.com/category/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.
SEE ALSO: Apple stores some iCloud objects on Google's cloud (https://mashable.com/2018/02/26/apple-uses-google-cloud-services/)
Hangouts Chat, (https://gsuite.google.com/products/chat/) first unveiled nearly a year ago (https://mashable.com/2017/03/09/google-hangouts-meet-and-chat/), 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 (https://mashable.com/2016/11/02/microsoft-teams/), both have significant head-starts. But there are a few areas where Google is hoping to differentiate itself from the competition. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/google-hangouts-chat/)
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Google (https://mashable.com/category/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.
SEE ALSO: Apple stores some iCloud objects on Google's cloud (https://mashable.com/2018/02/26/apple-uses-google-cloud-services/)
Hangouts Chat, (https://gsuite.google.com/products/chat/) first unveiled nearly a year ago (https://mashable.com/2017/03/09/google-hangouts-meet-and-chat/), 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 (https://mashable.com/2016/11/02/microsoft-teams/), both have significant head-starts. But there are a few areas where Google is hoping to differentiate itself from the competition. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/google-hangouts-chat/)
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