{"id":124114,"date":"2020-12-02T01:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/salesforce-buying-workplace-chat-app-slack-for-27-7-billion\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T01:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:08:57","slug":"salesforce-buying-workplace-chat-app-slack-for-27-7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/salesforce-buying-workplace-chat-app-slack-for-27-7-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"#Salesforce buying workplace chat app Slack for $27.7 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Salesforce buying workplace chat app<\/a> Slack for $27.7 billion<\/strong>”
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Cloud-computing giant Salesforce on Tuesday said it will acquire popular workplace messaging platform Slack for $27.7 billion. <\/p>\n

The cash-and-stock deal \u2014 one of the largest ever for a software company \u2014 will see Slack shareholders receive $26.79 in cash and 0.08 shares of Salesforce stock for each share in the company. <\/p>\n

It is the biggest acquisition in 21-year-old Salesforce\u2019s history. The San Francisco-based company\u2019s stock dipped 3.6 percent in extended trading. Slack shares, which have surged in recent days on reports that the merger was in the works, were little changed. <\/p>\n

The deal, which is expected to close in 2022, comes as Slack has struggled to fully capitalize on the switch to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of fierce competition from Microsoft Corp\u2019s Teams and other workplace apps.<\/p>\n

It also arrives despite claims from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u2014 who with his wife, Lynne, shelled out $190 million to scoop up Time magazine in 2018 \u2014 denying in August that Salesforce was pursuing any acquisitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that for a company like Salesforce, we don\u2019t really see an M&A environment. These are not \u2014 we\u2019re not in a moment,\u201d Benioff told analysts during an Aug. 25 earnings call.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not in a good M&A environment,\u201d Benioff added. \u201cI just don\u2019t see it. Maybe things could change. Of course, things always are changing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shares of Slack rival Microsoft were down 0.1 percent after the acquisition was announced.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Salesforce buying workplace chat app Slack for $27.7 billion” Cloud-computing giant Salesforce on Tuesday said it will acquire popular workplace messaging platform Slack for $27.7 billion. The cash-and-stock deal \u2014 one of the largest ever for a software company \u2014 will see Slack shareholders receive $26.79 in cash and 0.08 shares of Salesforce stock for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Slack-Logo.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[82308,5055,33355],"class_list":["post-124114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-1-20","tag-apps","tag-silicon-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}