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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

    Adobe headquarters
  • 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

    Logos for Salesforce and Elliott Management
  • 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

    Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s co-founder and CEO
  • 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

    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

    A worker arranges a Salesforce logo at a trade fair
  • 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

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  • 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

    Photo illustration of a smartphone with a Slack logo on it standing in a shopping cart with a Salesforce logo displayed behind
  • 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

    Salesforce Tower in Bishopsgate, central London
  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers
    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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  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    Legal services
    Meet the FT top 20 in-house legal leaders

    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

    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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