Michael Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of Atlassian. Scott Mlyn | CNBC The “SaaSpocalypse” was raging this week. Then it got a reprieve. The pennies-on-the-dollar acquisition of one-time highflyer Airtable, followed by plunges in HubSpot, Datadog and Figma on earnings reports, all served to underscore investor concerns that artificial intelligence models are eating away at the value of…
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, helps ring The Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 30, 2025. NYSE The “SaaSpocalypse” may not be over. But for now at least, fears of software’s demise have cooled. Software stocks soared this week, driven by strong results from Snowflake and Okta, signaling that some companies…
Salesforce on Wednesday evening delivered better-than-expected quarterly results, but it wasn’t enough to convince the market that AI will help — not hurt — its enterprise software business. Revenue in the quarter ended April 30 rose 13.3% year over year to $11.13 billion, topping expectations of $11.05 billion, according to LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share…
Drew Houston, chief executive officer and co-founder of Dropbox Inc., smiles during The Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. Martina Albertazzi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago out at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon…
Oracle Corporation rings the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 3, 2026. NYSE Oracle‘s stock surged 11% as software shares, beaten down by artificial intelligence disruption fears, clawed back some year-to-date losses. Adobe jumped about 6%, while Salesforce rallied 5%. ServiceNow, HubSpot, and Workday rallied more than 7% each. Cybersecurity stocks…
Apollo Global Management‘s David Sambur told CNBC on Thursday that the selloff in software stocks from fears of artificial intelligence disruption is far from over. “I unfortunately think it’s very early,” Sambur, who is co-head of private equity, told CNBC’s “Money Movers.” Some Wall Street analysts have been comforted by the recent rebound in the…
Figma Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Figma is partnering with Anthropic and launching a feature called “Code to Canvas” that converts code generated in artificial intelligence tools like Claude Code into fully editable designs inside…
We’re through the busiest part of the earnings season storm, with most of the world’s biggest tech firms already in. Nonetheless, this week brings numbers from two more portfolio names — plus, three important economic reports. According to FactSet, nearly three-quarters of the 59% of S & P 500 companies that have reported quarterly results…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff appears at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Nov. 19, 2025. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images Box CEO Aaron Levie says that in the 20-year history of his cloud software vendor, “this is the most exciting moment we’ve ever had.” Wall Street doesn’t see…
