Lina Khan, chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s antitrust division, participate in a discussion on antitrust reforms at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Oct. 4, 2023. Khan assumed the role of FTC chair in June 2021 after being appointed by U.S. President Joe … Read more
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, speaks during a keynote at the Dreamforce 2023 conference in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce announced Thursday that it would pay $1.9 billion in cash for Own Co., a startup specializing in tools for backing up data in cloud-based applications. Salesforce … Read more
Salesforce chair and CEO Marc Benioff speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 18, 2024. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Salesforce shares rose 4% in extended trading on Wednesday after the business software maker reported robust fiscal second-quarter results that beat estimates and raised its full-year profit outlook. The … Read more
Travelers wait to check in at the Southwest Airlines counter at Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California, Dec. 27, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images After Elliott Management revealed a $1.9 billion stake in Southwest Airlines in June, an initial rally in the stock quickly fizzled. Rather than sparking typical cheer on … Read more
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Halil Sagirkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Salesforce investors voted against the company’s compensation plan for top executives, after shareholder advisory groups raised concerns about equity awards granted to CEO Marc Benioff. According to a regulatory filing on Monday, … Read more
G. Mason Morfit, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of ValueAct Capital, speaks virtually during the Active-Passive Investor Summit in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mason Morfit, Salesforce board member and co-CEO of activist investor ValueAct, has increased his stake in Marc Benioff’s software … Read more
Amit Walia, CEO, Informatica at the New York Stock Exchange, October 27, 2021. Source: NYSE Enterprise data management company Informatica is not currently in talks to be acquired, the company said on Monday, after earlier reports suggested Salesforce was interested in a roughly $10 billion deal. Informatica shares slumped more than 7% on the news, … Read more
