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FT: Salesforce in talks to buy Slack in huge cloud software deal

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By LoadstarEditorial

25/11/2020

THE FINANCIAL TIMES reports:

Cloud software company Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack, the work messaging app, in what would be one of the biggest software transactions to date, according to people familiar with the matter.

An announcement could be made early next week, one person close to the deal said.

Marc Benioff, the founder and chief executive of Salesforce, has been on a hunt for acquisitions for some time and has been looking at several targets, according to another ...

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