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World Business Report: First broadcast 2019/02/04 22:32 GMT: Is Slack Worth Over $10 Billion?

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Is Slack Worth Over $10 million?

First broadcast 2019/02/04 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 2019/02/04 22:32 GMT: Is Slack Worth Over $10 Billion?

Is Slack Worth Over $10 Billion?

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Is Slack Worth Over $10 Billion?

The business communication platform has announced plans to go public later this year

The founders of the communication platform have announced plans to go public later this year. We get analysis from Jim Edwards of Business Insider. A beer advertisement during the Superbowl, which used ASMR techniques including whispering, left some people feeling tingly. Scaachi Koul from BuzzFeed News in New York tells us what autonomous sensory meridian response is and how some people find it relaxing. While Google parent Alphabet reported strong revenue growth, its shares fell in after hours trading. Peter Jankovskis from Oakbrook Investments in Chicago rounded up the day on Wall Street. Also in the programme, the world's biggest furniture retailer, Ikea, is to test the idea of renting rather than selling furniture. Maureen Hinton is a retail expert at market research firm Global Data, and tells us what's behind the move. Around ten million people are thought to have attended DJ Marshmello's virtual concert in the online game Fortnite over the weekend. We find out more from Stuart Miles of the gadget review website Pocket Lint. Plus our regular workplace commentator Pilita Clark asks whether workplace staff surveys are an essential tool for employee engagement, or a painful ritual that leaves people cold.

(Picture: A smartphone screen showing the logo of the Slack application. Credit: Eric Baradat/Getty Images)

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