Silicon Valley’s defense tech startups are booming as war shifts

Guvendemir | E+ | Getty Images A wave of defense tech startups in Silicon Valley is drawing billions in funding and reshaping America’s national security. Anduril Industries, recently valued at $30.5 billion following its latest funding round, is among the so-called “neoprimes” — companies challenging the dominance of legacy contractors, dubbed “primes,” such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop…

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Salesforce CEO calls guidance ‘appropriately conservative’ as stock declines after earnings

In a Wednesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff defended the guidance his company issued — even as the the figures disappointed Wall Street. “Our results are absolutely fantastic and our guidance is also, you know, is always appropriately conservative,” Benioff said. The enterprise software company posted its quarterly results Wednesday after…

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