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Salesforce to acquire Informatica for $8Bn to boost cloud and AI data management
Salesforce has announced its plan to acquire cloud data management company Informatica in a deal valued at around $8 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Informatica shareholders…
Salesforce doubles its AI fund with an additional $500Mn top up
Salesforce continues to double down on AI – literally this time. Ahead of the company’s annual Dreamforce conference, Salesforce revealed it is dedicating an additional $500 million to…
Salesforce introduces AI Cloud, announces $500Mn generative AI startup fund
At a time when industry giants like Google and Microsoft are doubling down on AI investments, cloud software major Salesforce, has announced what could be a significant leap…
Salesforce to shutter some offices, slash its workforce by 10% after hiring “too many people” during pandemic
2023 seems to have successfully picked up from where 2022 left, at least when it comes to hurting the global economy to the point where even the biggest…
Bret Taylor steps down as co-CEO and Vice Chair of Salesforce
Salesforce’s second – and most recent – experiment with dual leadership seem to have come to an end, after co-CEO Bret Taylor confirmed that he is stepping down…
Salesforce acquires Slack for $ 27.7 billion
Salesforce has announced that it has acquired the workplace messaging application Slack for a hefty price of $ 27.7 billion. This deal would be good for the CRM…
Salesforce to acquire Slack Technologies in its biggest acquisition till date: Report
Cloud software company Salesforce is in advanced talks to buy the work messaging software Slack, according to a report by WSJ. The deal, if it goes through, will…
Salesforce launches ‘Work.com for Vaccines’ to aid efficient and scalable vaccine distribution amid COVID-19 pandemic
With around 7.69 million active cases worldwide, humanity is still fighting its battle for sustenance against the deadly COVID 19 virus that shook the very foundation of mankind…
Salesforce acquires data visualisation company Tableau in a $15.7 Billion all-stock deal
Tableau, the data visualization software that has off late become a cult of sorts among data scientists and analysts (even folks outside that circle), has now been bought…
Salesforce is acquiring e-mail service provider Rebel
In a bid to supercharge its marketing and commerce cloud, Salesforce has decided to acquire interactive e-mail service provider Rebel. The acquisition will let Salesforce improve it’s e-mail…
Salesforce debuts new $50Mn fund dedicated to next-gen cloud consulting firms
Announced via an official blog post, Salesforce Ventures has today announced the launch of its newest $50 million investment fund to further drive capital into ‘cloud consulting’ startups…
The Partnership on AI has Intel, SalesForce, Ebay and others as its newest members
A slew of industry heavyweights have decided to augment the ranks of the Partnership on AI. New joiners to the group, which includes companies and non-profits, include names…
Salesforce wants to save you trouble by summarizing your emails and documents for you
A team of Salesforce MetaMind researchers have published a brand new paper that could well change how we handle our emails and documents. The team is working on…
IBM and Salesforce have partnered up to sell Watson and Einstein services together
Considering that most of the world has no idea about what exactly AI, and these particular AI in particular are capable of, IBM and Salesforce combining their crown…
Salesforce looks to improve customer service products with a dash of AI
AI and CRM share fascinating possibilities. While artificial intelligence managing human customers could sound too intriguing to be true quite yet, Salesforce introduced the Einstein artificial intelligence initiative…
AdStage launches API, gets Integration with Salesforce and Hubspot
Adstage, the go-to platform for managing search and social pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, is looking to increase the number of channels it supports. The platform is now looking to offer…
Salesforce’s Quip snaps up Unity&Variety, a startup founded by ex-Facebook product designers
On Friday, Salesforce announced that it has acquired software company Unity&Variety to further enhance the design standards of its word processing company Quip. The financial details of the…
FinancialForce bets big on former Salesforce and Heroku exec Tom Nielsen as its new CEO
FinancialForce, the leading cloud ERP vendor on the Salesforce Platform, today announced that it has appointed Tod Nielsen as the Chief Executive Officer and President. We can call…
Salesforce launches LiveMessage to let companies offer better customer service
CRM company Salesforce today launched LiveMessage, a tool that helps customer service representatives manage massive messaging traffic by calling bots to their aid. The new functionality was made…
Hate Speech is the real reason Twitter was left hanging by all potential suitors
For the past one month, everyone familiar with Twitter had been holding their breaths over the possible acquisition of the social media platform. This could have also been…
Salesforce still going after LinkedIn, urges EU to investigate antitrust issues with its acquisition
Salesforce, the largest CRM software company, which was once the forerunner in LinkedIn’s acquisition, is still glum and hasn’t healed from losing the bid to Microsoft. The Redmond giant…
