Slack is becoming more deeply intertwined with Google Drive

Team communication startup Slack has always billed itself as more than just a chat app. The company sees its software as a the hub of workplace productivity, with the spokes of the wheel being third-party integrations to any number of products and services customers rely on day in and day out. Now, Slack is dialing up one of those partnerships — its integrations with Google Drive — to make its app that much more useful for completing tasks without having to jump in and out of different app windows.

Slack is letting itself merge with Google Drive to make it easier to manage files

Starting today, Google Drive will automatically extend permissions on a file to any member of a Slack channel the file is shared to. So instead of having to...

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