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Salesforce

Tech Moves: New Seattle Metro Chamber CEO; Salesforce’s data chief joins Microsoft; and more

— The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce announced Rachel Smith as the business association’s new CEO. She starts in January.… Read More

Tableau integrates with Salesforce’s Einstein Analytics, now called Tableau CRM

Tableau announced that it is combining its software with Salesforce’s Einstein Analytics arm. The new offering will be known as… Read More

Salesforce cuts 1k jobs, including some at Tableau, vows to keep hiring while ‘reshaping’ company

Salesforce is cutting jobs after reporting record earnings, creating “shocked disbelief” inside the company, one newly laid-off Seattle employee tells… Read More

Spencer Rascoff

Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed… Read More

Meet the ‘chief availability officer’: Salesforce names Seattle-area exec to unusual C-suite role

Salesforce, the San Francisco-based cloud company known for its flagship customer relationship management software, has created a new C-suite role:… Read More

Microsoft signs Coca-Cola to 5-year cloud technology and business software deal

Coca-Cola Co. will standardize its business operations on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, Dynamics 365 customer service software and Microsoft 365… Read More

Tableau co-founder and former Pixar president win prestigious Turing Award for groundbreaking work in 3D computer graphics

Patrick Hanrahan, a Stanford University professor best known in Seattle tech as the co-founder of Tableau Software, was awarded the… Read More

Geek of the Week: Slalom’s Maya Peterson is a Salesforce force for women entering tech

Unable to finish college and working as many as three jobs at once in the service and nonprofit industries, Maya… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Deal of the Year — the top tech acquisition or IPO in the Pacific NW

Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. Everyone wanted a piece of the… Read More

Tech Moves: Adaptiva names CEO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Pantheon board; and more

— Former Tableau CMO Elissa Fink joined the board of directors of San Francisco-based website operations platform Pantheon. During her… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff offers leadership playbook on how to run purpose-driven businesses

LAS VEGAS — Marc Benioff was heading home from dinner one evening in 2015 when he learned the surprising news:… Read More

Dave Limp, Jay Carney and Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres
Podcast

Seattle tech’s extraordinary year: These are the stories we’ll remember in the business of innovation

From Amazon to Zillow, big successes to surprising failures, it was an extraordinary year for technology and innovation emerging from… Read More

CEOs of Microsoft, Apple, Google and more urge Trump administration to stay in Paris climate deal

An alliance of some of the world’s biggest companies and labor unions want the U.S. to stay in the Paris… Read More

Salesforce and Amazon double down on cloud partnership following surprising Microsoft alliance

Amazon and Salesforce today strengthened their relationship with a new cloud partnership focused on technology for customer service centers. The… Read More

Podcast

Inside the Tableau Conference: CEO Adam Selipsky on Salesforce deal, AI, and employee activism

LAS VEGAS — Nearly 20,000 people are here this week to learn about the latest from Seattle-based Tableau Software, whose… Read More

Together again? Microsoft and Salesforce deepen cloud partnership despite years of rivalry and rifts

Microsoft and Salesforce are strengthening their relationship, putting aside a complicated history for a new cloud partnership. Salesforce will move… Read More

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff shows up at Tableau’s conference — here’s what he said

LAS VEGAS — Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky introduced “one of the newest members of the Tableau community” to the… Read More

UK regulators finally clear Salesforce and Tableau to integrate, but continue review of $15.7B deal

Regulators in the UK have given Salesforce and Tableau Software the go-ahead to start integrating their business operations, more than… Read More

Salesforce and Tableau in regulatory purgatory: UK review stymies integration of $15.7B acquisition

Hold on, didn’t Salesforce complete its $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software? Not just announce it, but complete it? It’s… Read More

Benioff: Amazon’s Seattle tax fight stoked tech industry opposition to S.F. homeless initiative

Marc Benioff’s new book, “Trailblazer,” is the story of the Salesforce co-founder and co-CEO’s emergence as an accidental activist on… Read More

Salesforce completes $15.7B acquisition of Tableau Software, creating new enterprise tech force

Salesforce has wrapped up its $15.7 billion acquisition of Seattle’s Tableau Software, creating a powerful force in the lucrative enterprise… Read More

Tableau comes up short in stealthy earnings report, quietly disclosing first results since Salesforce deal

Tableau Software’s revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations for the second quarter, a landmark period that included the announcement… Read More

Microsoft, Amazon, other tech giants forge ahead on healthcare data sharing pledge

This past August, executives from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce banded together to promote data sharing in healthcare.… Read More

Amperity raises $50M to take on Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle and others with its customer data platform

With tech giants such as Adobe, Salesforce, and Oracle entering the ring, Seattle startup Amperity is raising more investment dollars… Read More

Shareholders sue to block Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau, alleging companies didn’t disclose key information

Salesforce’s $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software is facing legal challenges. A pair of new shareholder lawsuits filed this week… Read More

New filing on Salesforce’s Tableau deal reveals tough six-month negotiations, $552M break-up fee

Salesforce’s $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software came together after nearly six months of back-and-forth negotiations, and the companies didn’t… Read More

Salesforce real estate footprint at ‘HQ2’ in Seattle area reaches 650K square feet with Tableau deal

When Salesforce completes its deal to buy Tableau Software for $15.7 billion, establishing Seattle as its self-proclaimed HQ2 in the… Read More

Podcast

Salesforce’s $15.7B Tableau deal is a defining moment for the West Coast tech ‘megalopolis’

Salesforce surprised the tech world this week with its agreement to acquire Tableau Software for $15.7 billion — although maybe… Read More

Inside ‘Salesforce HQ2’: Tableau CEO says rapid growth will continue in Seattle after $15.7B deal

There are no Salesforce signs in the lobby. The top floor hasn’t been converted into an Ohana room. And believe… Read More

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky on $15.7B acquisition by Salesforce: ‘The growth potential is enormous’

Since taking over as Tableau Software CEO nearly three years ago, former Amazon Web Services executive Adam Selipsky has shifted… Read More

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