VentureBeat

Meet Botkit, an open-source framework for building your own Slack bot

Today is a big day for team communication app Slack -- the company is releasing an App Directory for easily discovering third-party tools that plug into Slack. But Slack is also gaining a powerful new ...
Skift

Kayak Adds a Bot to Slack to Expand Booking Via Messaging Apps

Give Kayak credit for going where the users are and building a travel-search app on top of Slack. Is Slack the optimum way to plan a trip? Hardly. But there will be some users, who are chatting at the ...
The Next Web

‘SwearJar’ is a Slack bot that gives to charity each time you drop a naughty word

If your team spends a lot of time on Slack, chances are there are the language tends to veer into the wrong side of clean at points. Even us wholesome TNW types tend to drop the occasional four letter ...
TechCrunch

Looker’s slick Slack integration inserts data directly into conversations

Looker, a data visualization and business intelligence startup announced a new component today that brings Looker data directly into Slack conversations without having to access the program separately ...
SiliconANGLE

How to use PayPal’s new P2P payment bot for Slack

PayPal Holdings Inc. has launched its first Slack bot that allows users to send peer-to-peer payments directly in the Slack messaging platform. Person-to-person payments is one of the most-used ...
SiliconANGLE

HP print bot lets you print shared files directly from Slack

HP Inc. has made it easier to print files shared in Slack with the launch of its HP Print Bot for the team messaging platform. The HP Print Bot for Slack makes use of a cloud-based HP ePrint, allowing ...