Salesforce, an American customer relationship management (CRM) company, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Slack Technologies, the organization and internal communication platform for companies, for $ 27.7 billion (22,933 million euros) in cash and shares, as confirmed by the companies. Is about the largest purchase in Salesforce history, that last year it acquired Tableau […]
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Slack Shares Jump On Potential Salesforce Acquisition
Salesforce has reportedly approached Slack with a potential acquisition deal, according to The Wall Street Journal. Shares of Slack jumped while Salesforce shares dropped on the news.
CVS to hire 50,000, Surgeon General warning
This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. All times below are in Eastern time. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks. Global cases: More than 353,000 Global deaths: At least 15,000 US cases: At least 35,000 US deaths: At least 470 The data […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla’s Elon Musk pledge donations
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., left, speaks as Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., listens during a keynote at the 2019 DreamForce conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. technology CEOs including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg […]
Spain to impose nationwide lockdown
A tourist wearing a protective mask takes a selfie outside the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on March 11, 2020 after Spain banned all air traffic from Italy, closed schools and blocked fans from football matches after being caught off-guard by a near tripling of coronavirus infections in less than 48 hours. Lluis Gene | AFP […]
New York declares emergency; Italy to close Milan
A traveler wears a medical mask at Grand Central station on March 5, 2020 in New York City. David Dee Delgado This is CNBC’s 24-hour live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. All times below are in U.S. eastern time. This will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks. […]
Dow futures dip 60 points
Traders and financial professionals work ahead of the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Drew Angerer | Getty Images This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:19 am: JPMorgan strategist calls for a market setback, says ‘short-term systematic sell signals’ triggered The U.S. stock market could be subjected […]
AnitaB.org CEO Brenda Wilkerson interview
AnitaB.org CEO Brenda Wilkerson is trying a different approach to diversity in Silicon Valley. Brenda Wilkerson is disappointed with Silicon Valley’s repeated diversity failures, and says time is running out. Nearly two years ago, the former computer programmer and entrepreneur took the CEO role at AnitaB.org, a non-profit organization named after famed computer scientist Anita […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey San Francisco comments a warning sign
Jack Dorsey attends the cocktail party hosted by Chrome Hearts X Jordan Barrett at La Maison Du Caviar in Paris, France. Victor Boyko | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images When Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told investors this week that he’s planning for a future with a more distributed workforce, his Bay Area peers could […]
Snowflake valued at $12.4 billion as Salesforce Ventures invests
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman, far right, addresses the team at an all-hands meeting. Courtesy of Snowflake Snowflake, a developer of cloud-based technology for storing and analyzing data, is now worth $12.4 billion, making it one of the most valuable venture-backed companies in Silicon Valley. Salesforce’s corporate venture arm joined Dragoneer Investment Group in the $479 […]