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Microsoft will face an anti-trust probe by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, over claims that it is preventing rivals of its video-conferencing app Teams from competing.

COMPANY NEWS: Lucid Software, the leader in visual collaboration software, today announced the launch of its latest APIs and developer platform, which will enable Lucid users and partners to better streamline their workflows by creating, publishing, and distributing their apps and integrations within the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. Top partners utilizing the APIs and developer platform at launch include Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow, and Notion.

Slack has announced it has commenced rolling out a completely redesigned user interface and user experience. The enhancements provide great quality-of-life features that help users stay focused, remain productive, find messages, and ultimately enjoy a more seamless experience that magnifies all the things they like about Slack.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has opened a formal probe into Microsoft's bundling of its Teams application with its Office software.

GUEST RESEARCH: For the past few years, hackers have increasingly targeted customers and businesses with tainted software boosted via ads. The recipe is simple – cyber-criminal groups set up fake websites for high-interest software and promote them on top of the results page through advertisements.

API protection specialist Cequence Security has updated its unified API protection platform, allowing customers to rapidly deploy API security testing with built-in generative AI automation, protect users from online fraud, and operationalise security findings with low-code/no-code workflows.

COMPANY NEWS: Check Point Software Technologies, a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2023 report. In its inaugural debut in the Forrester Wave, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration secured a position as a leader.

GUEST OPINION: Since Australia has come to terms with COVID-19, employees are either returning to work, still working from home, or doing both in a hybrid situation. Yet countless organisations have moved to reliance on cloud technologies and services for remote work, causing a massive shift to cloud adoption.

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced several enhancements to Red Hat Insights, its predictive analytics offering, including integrations for ServiceNow and Slack as well as expanded monitoring capabilities to identify known threats in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Slack and Salesforce have announced Sales Cloud for Slack, a new Slack solution, that allows organisations to simplify their tech infrastructure tasks, automate work, and give sales teams a consistent way of working together.

The European Union is likely to begin an anti-trust investigation into Microsoft in the wake of a complaint made by messaging app Slack two years ago, accusing the Redmond firm of bundling applications in order to increase market share.

GUEST OPINION: When the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to allow staff to work from home, the biggest initial challenge to overcome was organising ways to effectively communicate. Many turned to services such as Zoom and Teams to allow group conversations while mobiles became the favoured one-on-one channel. Over a period of a few months, most staff became comfortable with these ways of staying in touch while working remotely. However now, with hybrid work practices likely to be a feature of business life for some time to come, many organisations are realising there is another challenge that needs to be solved. As well as enabling hybrid communication, there is also a need for hybrid collaboration capabilities.

GUEST OPINION: When the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to allow staff to work from home, the biggest initial challenge to overcome was organising ways to effectively communicate. Many turned to services such as Zoom and Teams to allow group conversations while mobiles became the favoured one-on-one channel. Over a period of a few months, most staff became comfortable with these ways of staying in touch while working remotely. However now, with hybrid work practices likely to be a feature of business life for some time to come, many organisations are realising there is another challenge that needs to be solved. As well as enabling hybrid communication, there is also a need for hybrid collaboration capabilities.

Collaboration provider Slack has announced several new features aimed to help turn its vision of the Digital HQ into reality.

Ride-sharing firm Uber says a recent compromise of its network was effected using stolen credentials of an external contractor, but claimed that there was no evidence that its production network had been accessed.

COMPANY NEWS: Varonis Systems, a pioneer in data security and analytics, today announced a force multiplier for Salesforce admins—one-click permissions comparison and analysis.

Quantum control infrastructure software specialist Q-Ctrl has appointed Alex Shih to the role of head of product.

Collaboration software provider Lucid Software says enterprises can now make both Lucidspark and Lucidchart for Slack available to their entire organisations.

Work operating system monday.com has launched monday sales CRM, a customisable customer relationship management system built to unify customer processes under one platform.

With the majority of workers now working outside the office, Slack is on a mission to build a true digital-first alternative to give teams flexible ways of working and has today announced a vast suite of enhancements to Slack Huddles to give teams greater flexibility and collaboration options.