Hello! Hello, welcome to the Cloud edition of Slate Money, or Guide to the Business and Finance

News of The Week.

I'm Felixaman of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost. Hi. I'm here with Anna Shimansky of

breaking views. Hello. And we are coming to you from some

podcast hosting service in the cloud.

There was a very good chance that you are streaming this podcast as I speak and we are going to talk all about these

cloud services this week. The news hook is the sales force, the company that more or less invented this whole concept of cloud

services, has bought Slack, which if you use it you probably use every day all the time.

We are also going to talk about the NAB. all the

stock exchange which has a big board diversity push going.

We are going to talk about Amazon and its massive hiring spree and we also have a slate plus segment about

movies and whether we are ever going to go back to movie theaters. All that coming up on

slate money. I feel like I have spent most of this pandemic on

slack in one way or another it has become become my life. Emily you're nodding. You are all over

Slack all day, all night, is just consumed you in the way that it has many of us?

Yeah, Slack has always been a big part of my work life and definitely in the pandemic that has doubled because all the little incidental conversations and office gossip and random complaining that I typically do has moved completely over to

slack from in-person communication and I suspect that's the same for most workers who

were using slack you're just using it a lot more.

And you, Anna, is breaking views on Slack?

Nope. Are you on Microsoft Teams?

What?

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