thank you to nico grant and larry cannell. bloomberg beta, an early-stage venture fund, is an adventure -- an investor in slack. to itsis adding a woman all-male board of directors while it prepares for an ipo. the harvard business professor was previously a senior vice president at uber. wework says within a year of going public it will add another director with a commitment to increasing the board's gender and ethnic diversity. to could begin the roadshow for its ipo as early as next week. up, $170 million is what google will have to pay as part of an agreement with the ftc for violating children's privacy on youtube. this is bloomberg. ♪ youtube. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: another fine for google. this time youtube has agreed to pay a record $170 million to settle claims that it violated children's privacy laws. most of the money will go to the federal trade commission. $34 million will go to new york state. youtube has been accused of failing to obtain parental consent in collecting data on kids under 13. to discuss, i'm

we caught up with bloomberg's nico grant, and on the phone, research director larry on wednesday, right the results were announced. >> it's pretty stiff competition but what microsoft is trying to do is push microsoft teams and this type of collaboration into the infrastructure, and so it becomes kind of this horizontal service that everyone in the company has access to. and we can tell you, based on our surveys in this past year, that office 365 is increasingly being at contributed to industry collaboration. in previous years it was more associated as an outsourcing service. so in my opinion, you know, as microsoft has succeeded with teams, it's also succeeded in building awareness of the need for collaboration and the ability to collaborate more effectively in the cloud, which should indirectly help slack and increase interest in the market overall. >> i want to bring in nico grant. he's been covering slack for us at bloomberg technologies. give us your top takeaways. what happened to the top line revenue growth? >> taylor, this is an instance in which slack's status was not good enou

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