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Salesforce plans to acquire Cresta, a provider of AI-powered contact center automation software; a source says Salesforce agreed to pay $2.7B for Cresta

Salesforce extended its recent shopping spree, announcing on Monday plans to acquire Cresta, a nine-year-old provider of AI-powered contact center automation software.

Margaux MacColl / Resilience Media ·

Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others

Salesforce is acquiring defence tech startup Rune Technologies for $375 million in a combination of shares and cash, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Chris Metinko / Axios ·

Salesforce buys Rune Technologies for new defense unit

Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rune Technologies, a military software and hardware developer for logistics and sustainment. … - Salesforce called Rune its most significant national security-focused acquisition, but did not disclose terms of the deal.

Johnny Rodgers / Building Slack ·

Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff didn't use Slack and had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal; Butterfield quit after a Davos will.i.am panel

I needed a keyboard.

Dana Wollman / Bloomberg ·

Salesforce agrees to acquire AI-powered marketing platform Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value, paying $47.50 per share, set to close from February 2027

Salesforce Inc. has agreed to buy Braze Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered platform for marketers, for almost $5.7 billion in enterprise value.

Chris Metinko / Axios ·

Salesforce agrees to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs, reportedly for $2B; Listen Labs had raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January

The customer research space is especially ripe for AI disruption, as companies look to replace older, manual methods to more quickly find out what customers think.

Kate Rooney / CNBC ·

OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks

Before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to buy open-source platform Hugging Face this month, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million into the startup …

Brody Ford / Bloomberg ·

During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday …

Business Insider ·

Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year

- Salesforce has been in talks to acquire AI startup Listen Labs for around $2 billion.

Bloomberg ·

Salesforce is leading a $160M+ raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B+ valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M+ since 2015

Salesforce Inc. is investing in human resources software company HiBob as part of a more than $160 million funding round that values …

The Information ·

OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing

OpenAI in recent months has started giving some major customers the option of paying only when its AI completes tasks …

CJ Haddad / CNBC ·

Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership

Shares of Salesforce jumped 22% Thursday after the company reported a beat on second-quarter earnings and announced …

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat ·

Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes …

Jordan Novet / CNBC ·

Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $11.35B, vs. $11.32B est., net income up 87% to $3.5B, forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; CRM jumps 13%+ after hours

Salesforce shares soared 12% in extended trading on Wednesday after the cloud software vendor reported results and issued guidance that surpassed Wall Street projections.

Jordan Novet / CNBC ·

Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title

Salesforce has appointed an operating chief under CEO Marc Benioff, promoting Miguel Milano to the role.

Laura Bratton / The Information ·

Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry

When Anthropic on Tuesday launched a high-profile AI product for businesses that use Slack, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused.

Samantha Subin / CNBC ·

Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year

Salesforce on Monday said it is buying AI customer service platform Fin for about $3.6 billion as businesses accelerate their agentic offerings for enterprises.

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal ·

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable

'People think we have our back against the wall,' but customers aren't replacing its offerings with AI, CEO says

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