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    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Software groups dismiss price premium for generative AI

      Adobe, Salesforce and Zoom have for now ruled out following Microsoft’s lead despite extra costs

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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Elliott Management Corp
      Elliott scraps plans to nominate directors to Salesforce board

      Rare retreat for activist investor comes after software group posted better than average earnings

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    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      All eyes on sales growth Premium content

      And share compensation expense

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Why activists love Salesforce Premium content

      Room to grow margins, tons of cash flow — and bad habits

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Lex
      Salesforce: Software titan shows the range of its acting chops Premium content

      Wall Street’s vulture investors have forced discipline on Marc Benioff

      Salesforce’s share price soared more than a tenth
    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Salesforce’s Benioff pledges to put profits first amid activist face-off

      Software company’s shares jump on better than expected results after Elliott raised pressure with board nominees

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    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
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      Salesforce catches a break

      Bridgewater to cut jobs in first shake-up since founder Ray Dalio ceded control of hedge fund

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast20 min listen
      What’s behind the job cuts in Big Tech?

      The FT’s Robert Armstrong explains why he thinks Big Tech is really cutting back

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Salesforce appoints new directors in response to activist criticism

      Co-founder Marc Benioff refreshes software giant’s board after coming under fire from investors

      Arnold Donald, Sachin Mehra, Mason Morfit
    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Activists circle Salesforce’s celeb-schmoozing CEO Premium content

      Plus, Elliott revs up activism in Japan and Lazard beefs up its US private capital strategy

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘Everything should be on the table’: activists close in on Salesforce

      Marc Benioff helped build software group into a Silicon Valley giant but shareholders are agitating for change

      Marc Benioff in front of Salesforce and Elliott logos
    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Is Big Tech flabby? Premium content

      Activists seem to think so

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Elliott takes multibillion-dollar activist stake in Salesforce

      Pressure mounts on Marc Benioff’s software group after Starboard Value fund calls to boost profit margins

      Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff
    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Salesforce to cut 10% of staff as it reverses pandemic hiring spree

      Software group becomes latest tech company to scale back workforce in face of slowing demand

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    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
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      Cloud/Salesforce: secular growth will dispel cyclical thunder heads Premium content

      Software provider was not prepared for customers taking more measured approach to spending

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    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
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      Salesforce: departures hint at changes to M&A strategy  Premium content

      Any suggestion of new deals should prove unpopular

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    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
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      Tech giants ditch office space in London and Europe

      Moves by Alphabet, Meta and Salesforce come as companies respond to downturn in sector’s stocks by cutting costs

      Salesforce Tower in Bishopsgate, central London
    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Legal services
      In-house legal work: best practice case studies

      Featuring examples of the most innovative services that legal teams have developed for their businesses

    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      Activist Starboard urges Salesforce to lift margins after taking stake

      Investor attributes software group’s underperformance to ‘subpar mix of growth and profitability’

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      Legal services
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      We highlight the evolving role of senior in-house lawyers by showcasing outstanding examples of wide-ranging leadership skills

    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
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      Tech stocks: cash, not growth, leads share prices   Premium content

      Salesforce will have to do more deals after buying Slack to match Microsoft’s suite of services

    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
      Indian business & finance
      India’s IT sector is battling a hiring ‘crisis’, says Saleforce’s India chief

      Industry that serves as world’s back office faces a skills shortage, warns Arundhati Bhattacharya

      Salesforce India chief executive Arundhati Bhattacharya during a Bloomberg TV debate in 2017
    • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Salesforce takeover of Slack is a defining moment for cloud software

      Combined group is out to challenge Microsoft’s integrated suite of tools

    • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
      Slack Technologies Inc
      Salesforce to buy Slack for $27.7bn

      Cash-and-stock deal caps banner year for cloud computing

    • Friday, 27 November, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Salesforce/ Slack: office romance Premium content

      The cloud software company and workplace collaboration app are in talks for what could be one of the sector’s largest deals

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