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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

  • 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

  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

    Any suggestion of new deals should prove unpopular

  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    Big tech
    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

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
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    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’

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
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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
    Lex
    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

  • 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

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Lex
    Salesforce/Slack: smells like Teams spirit Premium content

    The roll-up strategy still makes sense for cloud software company

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Slack Technologies Inc
    Salesforce talks to buy Slack foreshadow showdown with Microsoft

    Possible takeover of workplace chat app comes as rival’s Teams service surges in popularity

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