Salesforce, a cloud computing software company are planning to acquire Slack, an app facilitating chat for $27.7bn in order to compete with Microsoft.

In 2016, Microsoft was going to acquire Slack for $8bn, however, they acquired LinkedIn instead.

This move by Salesforce comes as demand for digital services to enable working from home in the pandemic has increased massively.

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