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☆ Read the memo Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield wrote to staff announcing his departure from Salesforce
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced Monday that he's leaving Salesforce, Slack's corporate owner. The news comes days after Salesforce announced its CEO Bret Taylor is also stepping down. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced Monday morning that he is leaving Salesforce in January, according to an announcement Butterfield posted to a company Slack channel that was viewed by Insider. Slack will have a new CEO: Lidiane Jones. He's going to keep the bar high, and then keep pushing it higher.

☆ 3 ways that Amazon's advertising business is becoming as dominant as Google's
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon's advertising ambitions used to be focused on search ads to promote products available through Amazon's marketplace. But today, Amazon's ad business is the third biggest seller of digital advertising, behind Google and Meta, and that business drove $31 billion in revenue in 2021. Amazon Advertising is further extending its influence beyond its platform and across the entire internet, much like Google's sprawling advertising business. Amazon is using its giant cloud business AWS to make ads more powerful both on and off Amazon sitesAmazon has traditionally separated its advertising business from other business units like AWS, but those lines are gone. Amazon's adtech products that use AWS' technology exemplify how Amazon's ad business is proliferating across the digital advertising industry, and competing much more directly with Google than in the past.

☆ Oracle insiders say that even its all-important cloud unit is being dragged down by new restrictions on hiring — a major turnaround for a unit that usually gets whatever it wants
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Jessica Xing | Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Oracle has restricted hiring at OCI, telling recruiters to stay away from expensive areas like SF. Its marketing and customer experience, or CX, divisions were among the hardest-hit units, but the company's cloud division, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , or OCI, appeared to remain untouched. The restrictions inside OCI in particular follow a period of rapid hiring in 2021, when cloud firms raced to give candidates lucrative packages to win talent, the employee said. Business from OCI, especially with the addition of TikTok, has helped grow Oracle's revenue by 5% in the most recent fiscal year. Additionally, the firm's unwillingness to spend on labor has cost Oracle before, especially as its marketing cloud unit continues to lag behind competitor Salesforce.

☆ Oracle employees say new location-based hiring restrictions are even impacting the cloud unit, which is the one place the typically frugal company was always willing to spend big for talent
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Jessica Xing | Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Oracle has restricted hiring at OCI, telling recruiters to stay away from expensive areas like SF. OCI is Oracle's big cloud computing bet, where the firm was always willing to spend top dollar. Its marketing and customer experience (CX) divisions were among the hardest-hit units, but the company's cloud division, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), appeared to remain untouched. Business from OCI, especially with the addition of TikTok, has helped grow Oracle's revenue by 5% in the most recent fiscal year. Additionally, the firm's unwillingness to spend on its labor has cost Oracle before, especially as its marketing cloud unit continues to lag behind competitor Salesforce.

☆ Here's Bret Taylor's first big technical move at Salesforce since becoming co-CEO last year
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Ten months after his promotion to co-CEO of Salesforce, serving alongside famed founder Marc Benioff, Bret Taylor is gearing up to take the stage at the annual Dreamforce conference for the first time under his new title. It's called Genie, and it's designed to update Salesforce's dominant sales database software with modern technology that gives salespeople real-time information at their fingertips. Taylor and Benioff will deliver their keynote on Tuesday, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific Time in San Francisco. The 23-year-old company's original data storage software functions with a transactional database from Oracle, where Benioff spent 13 years before starting Salesforce. Taylor said that, over time, Genie will be integrated into Salesforce's other key products — its clouds for sales, service and commerce.

☆ 10 quick résumé updates you should make before applying to jobs in the new year
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-10 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

"If someone's looking at your résumé, they're not looking at it for very long unless it's grabbing their attention, so you want to keep it fresh and relevant," Vega added. "My background is in marketing, so I think of keywords as SEO for your résumé," Vega said. so know there's nothing wrong with explaining that on your résumé," Vega said. "Especially if it's relevant to the job you're applying for. For example, Vega cautioned against including your location on your résumé if you're in a different time zone than the job you're applying for.

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