Stories by Matthew Finnegan

Facebook’s enterprise social network app quickly gains users, helping the airline overcome some of the adoption challenges it saw with Microsoft’s Yammer.

Messaging apps and mobile services from companies like Zinc and Crew are springing up to help connect workers not bound to a desk with colleagues in the office.

The move enables users to embed third-applications directly into Quip documents and spreadsheets. Analysts say the company sees documents as team workspaces for collaboration.

Cisco envisions a phased rollout of Spark Assistant, a new service designed to end some of the pain out of setting up office meetings.

When it comes to keeping tabs on project management, popular upstart Trello has company: Asana, which has been around since 2008 and in public use since 2011. Here’s what Asana does and how it works.

Facebook launches a Workplace Chat desktop app, and says the number of paid users has doubled in six months; Slack adds interactive screen sharing; and Google looks to bolster Gmail with add-ons.

Showcase is designed to make it easier for freelancers and small teams of professionals to share content.

The US$900 Oculus for Business package is aimed at putting VR hardware in the hands of more business users for collaboration and worker training.

The company has launched beta versions of macOS and Windows desktop apps for the business version of Messenger, adding screen-sharing capabilities.

Users of Oracle’s sales, HR and ERP applications will be able to retrieve information directly from the messaging app after Slack’s latest chatbot partnership.

With 14,000 organizations worldwide using its business collaboration app, Facebook has a foothold in the enterprise, but it faces stiff competition on multiple fronts.

The cloud software provider’s team messenger integrates with its suite of sales and office productivity apps.

The company’s Vizible content creation and presentation tool is like ‘PowerPoint and GoToMeeting for VR,’ says CEOAndy Beall.

The company’s Slack rival, launched six months ago, will ‘over time’ become the primary communications client in Office 365.

Keybase Teams is one of a variety of collaboration tools that sees secure communications options as a selling point.