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Salesforce is buying messaging app Slack for $27.7 billion

by David Brancaccio and Marielle Segarra
Dec 2, 2020
It's Salesforce's largest acquisition yet.
Marc Benioff, founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce
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Dow index boosts its tech profile with addition of Salesforce

by Justin Ho
Aug 25, 2020
Bellwether market index also adds Honeywell and Amgen and expels Exxon and others. Move reflects tech's expanding role in the economy.
The floor of the New York Stock Exchange in March. The Dow Jones index has been updated to maintain its relevance, in one expert's view.
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What $130 billion company Salesforce actually does

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Sep 10, 2019
Megan Graham wrote about Salesforce's attempt to clarify its work for CNBC.
One Salesforce ad shows how the company can help an online shoe retailer make a sale through data it has on customer tastes. Above, shoe fashion in 1960.
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Should Big Tech pay more to help the homeless in San Francisco?

by Molly Wood
Nov 1, 2018
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff thinks so.
Andrew Loy begs along a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco, California on Tuesday, June, 28, 2016. Homelessness is on the rise in the city irking residents and bringing the problem under a spotlight.
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Time magazine may have time on its side now

by Amy Scott
Sep 17, 2018
With new billionaire owners in the wings, the iconic publication will have breathing room to focus on its future.
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