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Salesforce.com Inc

  • Tuesday, 17 March, 2026
    Technology sector
    Lex. Salesforce reckons software and debt do mix after all

    The company is making use of one market trend to offset the unhelpful effects of another

    Premium content
    A Salesforce logo displayed on a blue cloud-shaped sign
  • Wednesday, 11 March, 2026
    US companies
    Investors demand steep concessions in Salesforce’s $25bn bond deal

    Software group sold debt at significant premium in borrowing costs in sign of Wall Street jitters over AI disruption

    Salesforce Tower sign with raised metallic letters on an office building exterior, photographed from a low angle.
  • Thursday, 26 February, 2026
    US companies
    Salesforce chief dismisses ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ fears of AI overtaking business software

    Shares in company that sells software as a service fall after it projects revenue below Wall Street’s expectations

    Salesforce logo on a blue cloud-shaped sign mounted on the glass exterior of an office building.
  • Tuesday, 9 December, 2025
    North America Innovative Lawyers
    In-house legal teams test AI for automating more tasks

    Companies hope the technology will take on work usually sent to law firms. Plus: the top innovative in-house teams, North America 2025; and six ‘case studies’ of corporate lawyers’ innovations

    An illustration showing a digital globe surrounded by icons representing technology, finance, healthcare, communication, and automation.
  • Friday, 17 October, 2025
    US companies
    Salesforce boss Benioff walks back Trump praise after widespread backlash

    Venture capitalist Ron Conway resigns from board of company’s philanthropic arm in protest at comments

    Marc Benioff speaks holding a microphone at the 2025 Dreamforce conference, with an audience watching attentively behind him
  • Friday, 5 September, 2025
    Work Watch
    No trust in your business? There’s an officer for that

    Chief trust officers are being appointed to oversee digital safeguards but their significance is wider

    Montage of a woman checking something on an iPad and padlock icons
  • Thursday, 4 September, 2025
    Accelerating Business
    AI agents still need a human in the mix for legal tasks

    The software promises to handle ever more complex jobs autonomously and fast. But legal teams are cautious

    Salesforce logo on the exterior of the company’s headquarters, with a silhouetted figure in the foreground.
  • Friday, 18 July, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Can finance put a stop to AI data mining?

    Access fees that the sector say will protect customers could also act as a competitive barrier

    Richard Waters
    a futuristic server room
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Donald Trump
    The corporate winners and losers under Donald Trump

    How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration

    A silhouette of the back of Donald Trump with raised fists, surrounded by a tank, Netflix TV, medication injector, a Cybertruck, iPhone, handbag and sunglasses
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Tech Exchange
    Interview. Marc Benioff of Salesforce: ‘You’re going to have to throw a lot against the wall before you figure out what sticks’

    The billionaire co-founder of the cloud software group and owner of Time magazine says technology is ‘never good or bad. It’s what you do with it that matters’

    Illustrated portrait of two men against a yellow background, one smiling and one with a neutral expression
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Business School Debates
    Business school teaching case study: taking accountancy from spreadsheets to AI

    Artificial intelligence raises opportunities and risks for audit quality and financial reporting

    Two people analyzing financial charts on a laptop and smartphone
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Working It17 min
    AI is transforming the world of work, are we ready for it? | FT Working It

    Generative AI is set to reshape the workplace. Are companies ready for the change?

    FT Working It- AI in the workplace
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Accelerating Business
    Meet the specialists digitising companies’ legal teams

    Five legal operations professionals stand out for their efforts to harness AI and other emerging tech tools

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Markets
    Tech’s tortoise beats the hare

    And market breadth revisited

    Robert Armstrong
    Premium content
    Trader looks at computer screens
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    US companies
    Lex. Salesforce spins itself as an AI revolution winner as Wall Street grows dizzy

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

    Premium content
    Salesforce signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Software groups dismiss price premium for generative AI

    Adobe, Salesforce and Zoom have for now ruled out following Microsoft’s lead despite extra costs

    Adobe headquarters
  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Elliott Management Corp
    Elliott scraps plans to nominate directors to Salesforce board

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

    Logos for Salesforce and Elliott Management
  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    Markets
    All eyes on sales growth

    And share compensation expense

    Robert Armstrong
    Premium content
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    US companies
    Why activists love Salesforce

    Room to grow margins, tons of cash flow — and bad habits

    Robert Armstrong
    Premium content
  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    US companies
    Lex. Salesforce: Software titan shows the range of its acting chops

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

    Premium content
    Salesforce’s share price soared more than a tenth
  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    US companies
    Salesforce’s Benioff pledges to put profits first amid activist face-off

    Software company’s shares jump on better than expected results after Elliott raised pressure with board nominees

    Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s co-founder and CEO
  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Salesforce catches a break

    Bridgewater to cut jobs in first shake-up since founder Ray Dalio ceded control of hedge fund

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    The Story of Money podcast20 min listen
    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
    US companies
    Salesforce appoints new directors in response to activist criticism

    Co-founder Marc Benioff refreshes software giant’s board after coming under fire from investors

    Arnold Donald, Sachin Mehra, Mason Morfit
  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Due Diligence
    Activists circle Salesforce’s celeb-schmoozing CEO

    Plus, Elliott revs up activism in Japan and Lazard beefs up its US private capital strategy

    Premium content
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