Browsing: Marc Benioff

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. News leaks that enterprise software giant Salesforce.com is interested in acquiring a trendy tech company. Then its stock falls 5%, erasing billions of market value. Ring any bells?

Local competition authorities have given their thumbs up to the South African leg of a global merger between Microsoft and LinkedIn. In June, software giant Microsoft announced plans to buy professional social network LinkedIn

Salesforce.com was a rival potential bidder for LinkedIn in the process leading up to the professional networking website’s acquisition by Microsoft, according to people familiar with the matter. Salesforce was advised by Goldman Sachs in the