Slack swallows even more of your life with long-awaited feature

Slack is taking aim at the wheelhouse of one of its chief rivals with a new video-calling feature.

The workplace chat service announced a hotly anticipated tool on Tuesday that will for the first time let co-workers chat face-to-face, in groups or individually, within the platform. 

The move ups the competition between the company and Microsoft-owned competitor Skype for Work, which made its name in video conferencing, along with other services like Google Hangouts. It also follows rival HipChat's addition of a similar feature in August. 

The feature, which will roll out in the next few days, is an expansion to the audio calling tools that Slack has offered since this spring. Slack users can use it to either call other team members directly or organize calls of up to 15 people. Read more...