The new Yahoo Together app is a blatant rip-off of Slack

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Would you trust Yahoo, a company that suffered multiple historic data breaches, with your family’s conversations? What about with the daily banter between friends, roommates, or people in your book club? Five years after every single Yahoo account was affected by the massive 2013 hack, Yahoo and Oath are hoping that you’re willing to forget all that, and today they’re launching a new app — Yahoo Together — in hopes that it can become the destination for your life’s group chats and DMs. It’s available today on Android and iOS after previously being tested on an invite basis under the name Yahoo Squirrel.


Take one look at Yahoo Together and its similarity to Slack is unmistakable. (Slack is most popular in the enterprise, but can also be...

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