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  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Tech’s tortoise beats the hare Premium content

    And market breadth revisited

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  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
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    Salesforce spins itself as an AI revolution winner as Wall Street grows dizzy Premium content

    Not many publishers are buying chief executive’s narrative of the advantages to his group as a result of the technology

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  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
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  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
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    Elliott scraps plans to nominate directors to Salesforce board

    Rare retreat for activist investor comes after software group posted better than average earnings

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  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
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    All eyes on sales growth Premium content

    And share compensation expense

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
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    Room to grow margins, tons of cash flow — and bad habits

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    Wall Street’s vulture investors have forced discipline on Marc Benioff

    Salesforce’s share price soared more than a tenth
  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
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    Software company’s shares jump on better than expected results after Elliott raised pressure with board nominees

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  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
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    Bridgewater to cut jobs in first shake-up since founder Ray Dalio ceded control of hedge fund

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
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    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

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  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
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    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
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    ‘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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
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    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
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    Salesforce: departures hint at changes to M&A strategy  Premium content

    Any suggestion of new deals should prove unpopular

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  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
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    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

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  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
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    Featuring examples of the most innovative services that legal teams have developed for their businesses

  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
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    Investor attributes software group’s underperformance to ‘subpar mix of growth and profitability’

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  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
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    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
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    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
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    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

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  • 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

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