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Slack Buys Astro to Shift Conversations from Email

It would be easy to find more BadTech news about Facebook but you get the picture so let’s change the subject. Cyollaboration platform Slack has acquired email app Astro, which already had a Slack integration. Don’t read this as Slack is admitting email is here to stay: the company says its “goal is to make it as easy as possible to help teams shift conversations to where they would be most productive — in a channel.”