Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn the biggest tech deal of the year so far, Salesforce announced that it plans to buy Slack Technologies — provider of the popular workplace-messaging system — in a cash and stock deal worth $27.7 billion.According to Salesforce, the combination of Slack with its flagship customer-relationship management system will “create the operating system for the new way to work.” With the acquisition, Slack will become the new interface for Salesforce Customer 360 and Slack will be “deeply integrated” into every Salesforce Cloud, the company announced.Once the deal closes, Slack will become an operating unit of Salesforce and will continue to be led by founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield.
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