Over the past few years, we have seen corporate messaging apps like Slack increasingly dominating communications in companies moving towards digital transformation. Global brands like IBM, Condé Nast, Target and Capital One are improving communications and tying teams together in Slack. And luckily, it’s not just about top–down guidelines. As end users, we also adore its simplicity, transparency and fast communication speed.

Today we’re happy to announce the release of version 3.2 of our Pushover apps for Android and iOS which feature two-factor authentication and an optional dark theme.

We're excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 1.8, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes.

Today we’re releasing Zulip Server 1.7.2. This is a security release, containing just a handful of cherry-picked changes since 1.7.1.

After far too long a wait, Riot.im 0.14 is here (landing in conjunction with Synapse 0.27.3) and it’s a big one! We’re landing (big breath in): community filters, publicly-joinable communities, E2E stability across multiple tabs, E2E key re-request UX, granular settings, performance and memory footprint refactors, a new ‘Status’ theme and a whole bunch of languages! *phew*

In a busy sales team it’s almost impossible for everyone to know how the team is doing at any given moment and how individuals are contributing towards goals. Yet sharing up-to-date performance data with a live TV dashboard can have a huge positive impact on a team’s overall performance.

As another update to Riot.im mobile lands on Android (0.8.3) and iOS (0.6.12) — just a very quick update today to say that iOS now supports quick reply on iPhone and Apple Watch

Avail is building a community of responsible landlords and tenants by providing them with education, end-to-end tools, such as tenant screening, and customer service to support them in their rental experience. In this guest post, Co-founder and CTO Laurence Jankelow talks about how the Avail team went from pulling in different directions to uniting behind key KPIs and how that focus allowed them to scale.

Customer service is changing. Gone are the days when it was perfectly acceptable to respond to a customer in a day or two. Nowadays, whether you’re selling cars, consulting, or carrots, customers expect fast, friendly resolutions to their problems in minutes, not days.

CharlieHR is a two-year-old London-based startup that created a free platform to help small businesses manage everything related to human resources. They are 18 people strong, used by a few thousand companies all over the world, and successfully just launched a paid version of their software.