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Alphabet Walks Away From HubSpot Deal

Not interested. Alphabet reportedly opts not to make an offer for HubSpot to bolster CRM and cloud position

Salesforce Shareholders Reject CEO Marc Benioff’s Compensation Plan

Compensation packages for Salesforce's top executives are rejected by shareholders and investors, despite backing from the board

Salesforce Opens First AI Centre In London

American CRM giant selects UK capital for its first AI centre where industry, customers and experts can advance AI innovation

Alphabet Mulls Offer For Marketing Software Firm HubSpot

Amidst antitrust scrutiny, Alphabet reportedly plans on making an offer for HubSpot to bolster CRM and cloud position

Salesforce Launches AI Tools For Doctors, Healthcare Sector

New AI solutions from Salesforce called 'Einstein Copilot: Health Actions' launched for the healthcare sector

Salesforce Lays Off 700 Staff – Report

Salesforce Invests $4 Billion In UK Amid AI Push

CRM giant Salesforce confirms it will invest $4bn in its UK business over the next five years, in the face of strong demand for AI

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Salesforce To Axe more Than 10,000 Staff

More bad news for Salesforce staffers, as Marc Benioff confirms firm will again axe employees, this time 10 percent of workforce

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SAP Confirms Complete Withdrawal From Russia

German software giant SAP officially confirms it will exit the Russian market, because of its illegal and brutal invasion of Ukraine

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AWS re:Invent: News Roundup From 2021 Conference

Silicon breaks down the noteworthy news announcements and innovations presented by AWS at this week's AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas

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Freshworks Valued At $12.2 Billion After Nasdaq IPO

Business software provider Freshworks, which seeks to challenge Salesforce in the CRM space, enjoys successful Nasdaq debut

SAP Invests £216m In UK, Opens Offices In London, Manchester

Germany's most valuable company (SAP) is to invest £216m in the UK for the SAP UK Data Cloud, as well as open new offices

Salesforce’s LinkedIn Account Hijacked With Black Lives Matter Post

CRM giant Salesforce confirms its LinkedIn social media account have been compromised, following unauthorised BLM post last week

The State of X Commerce. What’s Next in the Digital Retail Space?

The retail space is being radically transformed, thanks to the pandemic. E-commerce and then M-commerce has rapidly evolved. But what's next? What will the digital retail landscape look like post-COVID-19?

Salesforce Acquires ClickSoftware For $1.3bn

US cloud services provider snaps up Israeli maker of workforce management and service solutions

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Global IT Spending To Rise 6.2 Percent, Gartner Predicts

Good news for tech industry with prediction of significant rise in IT spending thanks to weak US dollar

Salesforce Targets SMB Market With Essentials Offering

Entry-level offering...simplified sales and customer service software that can scale as small businesses grow

Salesforce Closes E-commerce Gap With £1.9bn Demandware Deal

E-commerce software maker Demandware snapped up by Salesforce in its biggest ever acquisition

Microsoft Launches Dynamics CRM 2016

As CRM software's value grows in the enterprise, Microsoft releases an analytics-enabled, more mobile-friendly version of Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Acquires Adxstudio To Improve Dynamics CRM’s Web-Savviness

The software giant snaps up the maker of self-service portals to help extend Dynamics CRM to the Web

SalesforceIQ Aims To Make Sales People Smarter

SalesforceIQ utilises advanced data science to analyse company relationships and drive actions

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Salesforce’s Benioff Claims SAP ‘Is Scared’

Spurned wrath? Marc Benioff blasts SAP CEO claiming he rebuffed a genuine partnership offer

Consumer Trust Meltdown With Businesses Over Personal Data

Porkie pie time...study finds consumers deliberately provide wrong information when businesses ask for personal details

Microsoft Not Interested In Salesforce Takeover

He is just not that into you! Microsoft and SAP deny interest in Salesforce.com acquisition

Is Microsoft About To Bid For Salesforce?

Microsoft joins hunt for Salesforce.com, in what would be a remarkable turnaround in their relationship