Ron Conway, founder of SV Angel, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2015 conference in New York on May 4, 2015. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Days after suggesting that President Donald Trump should send federal troops to San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is facing some consequences. Prominent startup investor Ron Conway,…
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during the 2025 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce shares rose as much as 5% in extended trading on Wednesday after the software vendor issued new financial targets for the next few…
Sam Altman didn’t set out to compete with Nvidia. OpenAI began with a simple bet that better ideas, not better infrastructure, would unlock artificial general intelligence. But that view shifted years ago, as Altman realized that more compute, or processing power, meant more capability — and ultimately, more dominance. On Monday morning, he unveiled his…
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce, speaks during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024. Halil Sagirkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images As Salesforce welcomes tens of thousands of people to San Francisco for its annual Dreamforce conference, CEO Marc Benioff has found himself in the center of local controversy on…
Wall Street’s weekly performance was near the flat line heading into Friday. Things started OK on the final trading day of the week, until President Donald Trump ‘s new China trade threats tanked the stock market. The S & P 500 lost 2.71% on Friday — the worst single-session decline since April 10, the day…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer walked investors through next week as Wall Street launches into earnings season, highlighting reports from financial giants including Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan. He acknowledged Friday’s major sell-off but said he doesn’t think the session marks the end of the market’s multi-year rally. “It’s a…
Thomas Kurian CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on April 8, 2025. Candice Ward | Google Cloud | Getty Images Google is taking another shot at selling businesses on artificial intelligence agents by introducing subscriptions featuring agents that perform specific work tasks. Gemini Enterprise targets large organizations,…
Company: Workiva (WK) Business: Workiva is a provider of cloud-based reporting solutions that are designed to solve financial and non-financial business challenges at the intersection of data, process and people. The company offers its unified software-as-a-service, or SaaS, platform that brings customers’ financial reporting; environmental, social and governance (ESG); and governance, risk and compliance (GRC)…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks as he presents the new Meta Ray-Ban Display at the 2025 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 17, 2025. Benjamin Legendre | AFP | Getty Images Meta‘s efforts to expand its core business from online advertising involves pitching companies AI-powered chat tools that they can use on…
If I hear one more hedge fund oligarch on television tell me that the data center buildout/artificial intelligence story is just like the dot-com bubble, I am going to tear someone else’s hair out because I don’t have enough to demonstrate my full frustration. Many of the people opining and whining about how this moment could…
