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☆ This is the commentary Cramer wants to hear most when Salesforce reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Now, with the Club holding set to report earnings, Jim Cramer wants to hear whether its AI endeavors are really on track to boost its financials. "We want to hear that numbers must be raised next year because of the new business that [Salesforce is] getting now" as a result of AI, Jim said Tuesday. It's been a year since OpenAI's ChatGPT went viral and accelerated investment into generative AI applications, which can create human-like text sentences and images in response to user queries. Since then, Salesforce and other software companies have raced to incorporate generative AI capabilities into their existing products or launch new ones all together. Still, the analysts reiterated their buy-equivalent rating on Salesforce stock and a $250-per-share price target.

Persons: Jim Cramer, Marc Benioff, Jim, It's, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Salesforce, Piper Sandler, Jim Cramer's, Stefan Wermuth Organizations: Club, Adobe, Microsoft, LSEG, Oppenheimer, CNBC, Salesforce, Economic, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Davos, Switzerland

☆ Salesforce shares are deservedly rewarded after a stellar quarter and a rosy outlook
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Bottom line It was another terrific quarter from Salesforce with steady, double-digit revenue growth and a continued operating margin uplift, leading to a huge increase in earnings per share. Additionally, the topline growth story has some game to it, thanks to the surge in interest in its Data Cloud. By Cloud unit, the most exciting performance in the quarter came from the Data Cloud. Revenue growth accelerated to 22% from 16% in the prior quarter, and the company said it added 1,000 new customers in the quarter alone. Artificial intelligence is driving the interest in the Data Cloud, as more customers seek to use Mulesoft's integration technology to unlock data across legacy systems, cloud apps, and devices.

Persons: Salesforce, Marc Benioff, management's, Salesforce's headcount, Salesforce's, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Nicholas Kamm Organizations: Revenue, LSEG, CNBC, Salesforce, Economic, Washington, AFP, Getty Locations: Americas, Africa, Asia, headcount, Washington ,

☆ Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon on Tuesday announced a new chatbot called Q for people to use at work. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Duet AI for Google Workspace for business workers both cost $30 per person per month. As a result, with Q, people can discuss information that's stored in Microsoft 365, Dropbox, Salesforce and Zendesk, along with AWS' S3 data-storage service. Administrators will be able to determine whether Q can answer people's questions about general topics, said Deepak Singh, an AWS vice president. WATCH: The market now sees Amazon as more of a cloud and generative AI company, says Needham's Laura Martin

Persons: James Bond, Salesforce's Slack, Adam Selipsky, Selipsky, Steven Dickens, Q, Deepak Singh, Needham's Laura Martin Organizations: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Star Trek, Futurum, AWS Locations: Las Vegas

☆ Marc Benioff just can't make up his mind on RTO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

This is despite mandating Salesforce employees to come to the office three or more days a week. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementSalesforce billionaire CEO Marc Benioff seems to have somewhat of a muddled stance on hybrid working. AdvertisementBut Benioff doesn't seem to apply this mantra to his own workforce. It just doesn't work with my personality."

Persons: Marc Benioff, —, it's, GQ isn't, Benioff, I've Organizations: GQ, Service, Engineers

☆ Salesforce CEO pledges to match contracts of OpenAI researchers who resign and join Einstein Trusted AI team
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Marc Benioff promised to match the contracts of OpenAI researchers who resign to join Salesforce. The offer comes amid the chaotic ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and rumors Altman could return to the job. "Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity OTE to immediately join our Salesforce Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese," Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, posted on X in a pledge to buy out the OpenAI researchers' contracts, along with any unrealized profits and sales incentives. As many as 95% of OpenAI workers have also threatened to quit if Altman, the company's co-founder, is not reinstated. AdvertisementSalesforce's Einstein is the company's generative AI program built for managing relationships with customers.

Persons: Marc Benioff, Sam Altman, Altman, —, Salesforce, Silvio Savarese, Einstein, Benioff, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki, Szymon Sidor, Aleksander Madry, Savarese, Stanford — Organizations: Salesforce, Service, Enterprise, Business, OpenAI, New York Times, Stanford

☆ Chaos at OpenAI ensues
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the continued fallout from the shocking Sam Altman ouster at OpenAI. Altman is alive and well, but his run as CEO of OpenAI ended abruptly on Friday. But in the days since his firing, he's escaped a messy weekend looking like the ultimate hero, Business Insider's Katie Notopoulos writes. To be fair, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear don't seem to know why either. Meanwhile, Salesforce's Marc Benioff is already actively recruiting OpenAI employees on X.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI, he's, Katie Notopoulos, Altman isn't, Ilya Sutskever —, Sutskever, Kali Hays, Satya Nadella, Emmett Shear, Satya Nadella Stephen Brashear, Julie Bort, Microsoft's Nadella, Nadella, that's, Madeline Renbarger, That's, It's, Kali, Ashley Stewart, Salesforce's Marc Benioff, Scott Olson, Bridgewater's, Greg Jensen, Jim Chanos, Elon, New York Jefferson Siegel, Nvidia's, Jensen Huang, execs, Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Arantza Pena Popo, Camila Téllez, Melkorka, Téllez, Carly Rae Jepsen, Björk, Colleen Ballinger, Clinton, Dan DeFrancesco, Naga Siu, Hallam Bullock, Lisa Ryan Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Getty, BlackRock, Reuters, Nvidia, Elon, HP, Nordstrom, Clinton Lee Locations: OpenAI, Silicon Valley, Bridgewater, New York, Texas, Millennials, New York City, San Diego, London

☆ Marc Benioff is trying to use X to poach talent from OpenAI, and people are having a field day in the comments
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is trying to get ahead of the race to poach OpenAI's talent. AdvertisementAfter the weekend of chaos at OpenAI, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is eyeing an opportunity for new talent. "Lol, like it was ever about compensation," wrote Boris Power, OpenAI's head of applied research, in response to Benioff. "Looking forward to joining Salesforce!" I was the janitor at OpenAI, total comp $1.2m base + $50m equityLook forward to joining Salesforce!

Persons: Marc Benioff, —, Salesforce's Einstein, Lol, Boris Power, ove, ould Organizations: Service, Salesforce's Locations: OpenAI, ife

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Persons: It's, Eli Lilly, Salesforce, Bob Iger's, Emerson, Lal Karsanbhai, hasn't, tanked, Laxman Narasimhan, Stanley Black, Decker, –, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Michael Nagle Organizations: Federal Reserve, Dow Jones Industrial, Nvidia, Microsoft, Linde, LIN, Broadcom, Web Services, Walt Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery, Disney, Emerson, Emerson Electric, National Instruments, Google, Honeywell, Honeywell International, Technologies, Solutions, Meta, Reality Labs, Starbucks, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: U.S, Seattle, Danaher's, China

☆ ValueAct builds stake in Disney, adds drama at home of Mickey Mouse -sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Svea Herbst-Bayliss | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A screen shows the logo and a ticker symbol for The Walt Disney Company on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., December 14, 2017. ValueAct and Disney declined to comment. Disney's stock price could trade between $120 and $190 a share, far above its current $94.19 price, ValueAct has suggested, the people said. Unlike other activist investors who noisily push for change through public presentations, ValueAct prefers to work quietly behind the scenes. In January, ValueAct CEO Mason Morfit was invited onto Salesforce's (CRM.N) board at a time the company had at least five activist shareholders.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, ValueAct, Mickey, Nelson Peltz's, Peltz, Shaw, Trian, Mason Morfit, Svea Herbst, Bayliss, Dawn Chmielewski, Arsheeya, Arun Koyyur, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Walt Disney Company, New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, ValueAct, Walt Disney, Disney, 13D Monitor, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, Fund Management, Management, Capital Partners, Microsoft, Svea, Thomson Locations: New York, U.S, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bengaluru

Wednesday's batch of analyst research included bullish calls on a credit card giant and a sports betting name. The firm downgraded the pharmaceutical stock to neutral from overweight and lowered its price target to $55 per share from $68. The bank downgraded the Canadian Solar to underweight from neutral in a Wednesday note and lowered its price target to $22 per share from $32. The analyst noted that the guidance given confirms his bull case for the stock, which consists of a $70 price target. The bank initiated coverage of the credit card giant with an overweight rating and a $184 per share price target — which implies more than 17% upside from Tuesday's close.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Guggenheim, John DiFucci, there's, Brian Evans, Cantor Fitzgerald downgrades, Myers Squibb Cantor Fitzgerald, We've, Olivia Brayer, Myers Squibb, — Brian Evans, Julien Dumoulin, Smith, Wells, Omar Mejias, Mark Strouse, DraftKings, Stephen Grambling, Grambling, Fred Imbert, millennials, Z, Gen, Terry Ma Organizations: CNBC, Barclays, American Express, Guggenheim, FactSet, Myers Squibb, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Warner Music Group, accel, JPMorgan, American Locations: Bristol, Generac, Europe, CSIQ

☆ Exclusive: ValueAct takes stakes in Recruit and Expedia, says they are poised for strong growth
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Svea Herbst-Bayliss | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The Recruit logo is displayed at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Mayu Sakoda/ Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters) - ValueAct Capital Management has bought stakes in job search site Indeed's parent Recruit Holdings (6098.T) and in online travel services provider Expedia Group (EXPE.O) and believes both are poised for strong growth. Recruit is valued at roughly $49 billion while Expedia has a market value of about $17 billion. ValueAct CEO Mason Morfit was invited onto Salesforce's board this year and the stock price has surged 64% since January. There was no mention of Recruit or Expedia.

Persons: Mayu, Expedia, ValueAct, Mason Morfit, Svea Herbst, Bayliss, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, ValueAct Capital Management, Recruit Holdings, Expedia, Reuters, Recruit, Microsoft, Danaher Corp, Roblox, Alarm.com Holdings, Svea, Thomson Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Austin , Texas, Expedia, Illumina

☆ Here’s a rapid-fire update on all 35 stocks in our portfolio, including a new industrial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Here's a rapid-fire update on all the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. Honeywell International (HON): This is the most undervalued stock in our portfolio, Jim said. In a diversified stock portfolio, Jim said there's always room for high-quality companies like P & G, which also has a track record of raising its dividend. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. Here's a rapid-fire update on all the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club.

Persons: Jim Cramer's, Jim, Bausch, That's, Dupont De Nemours, Dupont, Danaher, Walt Disney, Estee Lauder, Locker, Vimal Kapur, we're, We've, we've, Linde, Eli Lilly, Eli, hasn't, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's, Zuckerberg, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley's, Ted Pick, James Gorman, he's, there's, Patience, Stanley Black, Decker, Wells Fargo, Jim Cramer Organizations: Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, CNBC, Club, Apple, Amazon Web Services, Broadcom, VMWare, Bausch Health, Caterpillar, Costco Wholesale, Coterra Energy, Disney, Eaton Corp, Emerson, Ford, Union Auto Workers, GE Healthcare Technologies, General Electric, GE, Management, Google, YouTube, Honeywell International, Honeywell, Linde, LIN, Reality Labs, Microsoft, Nvidia, U.S, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, Constellation Brands, Corona, Modelo, Stanley, TJX, Wynn Resorts, WYNN, Trust Locations: China, India, Salesforce's, redeploy

☆ Salesforce's strong stock price wooed some investors during third quarter-filings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Svea Herbst-Bayliss | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The two hedge funds had each cut their investments in Salesforce during the second quarter. Still Starboard Value the first activist to speak publicly in October 2022 about needed changes at Salesforce cut its stake again, the filings show. On Sept. 30, the hedge fund owned 1.7 million shares, marking a 14% drop from what it owned at the end of the second quarter. Light Street Capital Management cut its stake by 44%, while Polen Capital Management trimmed it by 3.2%, the filings show. While Salesforce's stock price lost some ground during the third quarter, it has continued to move higher and closed trading at $221.18 on Tuesday.

Persons: Porte, Benoit Tessier, Salesforce, Mason Morfit, Svea Herbst, Bayliss, Aurora Ellis Organizations: Viva Technology, Porte de, REUTERS, Capital Management, Farallon Capital Management, Elliott Investment Management, ValueAct, Investment, Securities and Exchange, Street Capital Management, Polen Capital Management, Svea, Thomson Locations: Paris, France, Salesforce, Polen

☆ Slack names longtime Salesforce executive Denise Dresser as new CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Denise Dresser, a longtime Salesforce exec, will become the new CEO of Slack. AdvertisementAdvertisementSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Monday that Slack had named Denise Dresser as its next chief executive. Dresser, who has worked for Salesforce for 12 years, is president of accelerated industries at Salesforce. Salesforce said in August that its chief people officer, Brent Hyder, would leave to "pursue a new opportunity." To contact Ellen Thomas with insight or information about Slack or Salesforce, reach out at ethomas@insider.com or call/text (646) 847-9416 using the encrypted-messaging app Signal.

Persons: Denise Dresser, Slack, Lidiane Jones, Marc Benioff, —, She'll, who's, Dresser, Denise, Benioff, Jones, Whitney Wolfe, Stewart Butterfield, Bret Taylor, Mark Nelson, Gavin Patterson, Ebony Beckwith, Salesforce, Brent Hyder, Salesforce's, Vikram Rao, Ariel Kelman, Oracle's, Ellen Thomas Organizations: Bumble Inc, Service, Salesforce, Elliott Management Locations: Salesforce

☆ Meet Brother Spirit, the Buddhist monk who doesn't believe in competition and is behind one of the great partnerships in Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Brother Spirit is a monk in the French monastic community of Plum Village. Brother Spirit played a role in connecting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff with Humane's founders. Brother Spirit said competition is not the best way to drive innovation. Brother Spirit did not respond to Insider's request for a comment, so it's unclear exactly when he befriended Benioff. Brother Spirit, who also goes by Brother Pháp Linh, appears to be active on social media.

Persons: Brother Spirit, Marc Benioff, Imran Chaudhri, Bethany Bongiorno, Benioff, Times ., Spirit, He's, Barack Obama, Tim Cook, Fleetwood Mac, —, Brother Pháp Linh, CK Lin, Lin Organizations: Brother, Humane's, Service, Apple, Google, The New York Times, Times, Salesforce, Cambridge University Locations: Plum, Salesforce, Bordeaux, France, San Francisco

☆ Bumble founder and CEO to step down early next year, Slack chief executive to succeed her
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

DANA POINT, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Whitney Wolfe Herd, Founder & CEO, Bumble speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on September 27, 2023 in Dana Point, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media)Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of the dating app Bumble , is stepping down from her role at the helm of the company early next year. She will be succeeded by Lidiane Jones, CEO of Salesforce's cloud-based messaging platform Slack, on Jan. 2, 2024, according to a company release Monday. She will transition to a new role as executive chair when Jones takes over as CEO. She added that she is "grateful to have the support of my colleagues at Slack and Salesforce."

Persons: POINT, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble, Vox, Jerod Harris, Wolfe Herd, Lidiane Jones, Jones, Slack, Salesforce Organizations: The Ritz, Carlton, Getty, Vox Media, Microsoft, CNBC PRO Locations: CALIFORNIA, Laguna Niguel, Dana Point , California

☆ Jamie Dimon's stock-moving trades show why investors should track CEOs' buying and selling
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +24 min

While executive stock sales — such as Dimon's planned transactions next year — are not universally red flags, they can get complicated. Insider stock sales Executive stock trades are usually disclosed through SEC filings known as Form 4 documents and accessible through the regulator's EDGAR database — the electronic data gathering, analysis, and retrieval system. Rule 10b5-1 trading plans came into the fold just over two decades ago to reconcile these two discordant facts. Adopting Rule 10b5-1 trading plans gives public-company executives a way to protect against allegations of illegal insider trading in the future. Compared with a tiny stock sale executed through a predetermined plan, executive stock buys generally send a much stronger signal: The executive wants to make money, too.

Persons: Jamie Dimon, Dimon, Jim Cramer, Jim, Eliezer Fich, Dimon's, EDGAR, Chester Spatt, Spatt, —, Susan Li, Drexel's, Wharton, Drexel's Fich, Fich, I'm, Nancy Quan's, Quan, Marc Benioff, Carnegie Mellon's Spatt, Benioff, Howard Schultz, Schultz's, Schultz, Carnegie Mellon's, Nikesh Arora, Arora, Charles Scharf, Wells, Sehwa Kim, Kim, Foot, Mary Dillon, Locker, Dillon, Foot Locker, Jim Cramer's, Al Drago Organizations: JPMorgan Chase, JPMorgan, Dow Jones Industrial, Wall, Dimon, Pfizer, Capitol, Drexel University, Club, Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, CNBC, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Stanford, Cola, Salesforce, Carnegie, Starbucks, Palo Alto Networks, Alto Networks, Broadcom, Federal Reserve, Washington Service, Columbia Business School, JPMorgan Chase &, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: U.S, Coke, Salesforce, FL

☆ Wall Street hits Salesforce with a downgrade. Here's why Cramer disagrees
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Enterprise software giant Salesforce (CRM) has been trudging through a challenged stretch of trading lately — but it's certainly no justification for a Wall Street downgrade, Jim Cramer said Monday. Salesforce appears well-positioned on both sales growth and profitability, even if some on Wall Street question its ability to deliver a growth mix on par with its software peers. Alongside its fiscal 2024 second-quarter results in late August, Salesforce tweaked its full-year revenue guidance to a level slightly above Wall Street consensus estimates at the time, implying nearly 11% year-over-year growth. However, the firm said Club holding Microsoft (MSFT) is still its favorite large-cap software stock to own into year-end, citing AI catalysts. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

Persons: it's, Jim Cramer, Piper Sandler, Salesforce, Jim, Marc Benioff, Jim Cramer's Organizations: Enterprise, Club, Microsoft, CNBC, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Salesforce, ASAN, San Francisco

☆ 4 tech giants have cemented their AI dominance. But there's even more room for growth
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Nearly all tech companies will integrate generative AI by the end of 2024. Respondents said they expected to use generative AI for customer support, content generation and productivity. Google Cloud Google Cloud was the third most likely cloud provider in Oppenheimer's survey to gain future AI spending share. Salesforce and AI Oppenheimer analysts said they see "durable tailwinds for customer support, content generation and code generation, which are considered priority use cases for Generative AI." We agree with this call and are in the camp that Salesforce's generative AI tools should help reaccelerate sales growth all while balancing increasing margins.

Persons: Oppenheimer's, Oppenheimer, Piper Sandler, Copilot, Piper, we've, Salesforce, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Dado Ruvic Organizations: Microsoft, Web Services, Google, Meta, AI, Adobe, CNBC Locations: OpenAI, Jasper

☆ Cramer's Lightning Round: Energy Transfer is a buy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

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Persons: Salesforce, I'm, it's, you've, Let's Organizations: Communities, Energy, Realty, Realty Trust, Oracle

☆ Here's a rapid-fire update on all 36 stocks in our portfolio, including our latest addition
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

Here's a rapid-fire update on all stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. After reducing expenses to improve margins on its retail business, Jim said it's on the right track. Costco Wholesale (COST): Costco remains one of Jim's favorite stocks in the entire our entire portfolio. Ford Motor (F): Jim expressed confidence in Ford CEO Jim Farley, as the targeted United Auto Workers strike approaches the one-month mark. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

Persons: Jim Cramer's, Jim, there's, it's, Bausch, we're, We've, Coterra, Dupont, We're, Nelson Peltz, Peltz, Estee Lauder, Patience, Fabrizio Freda, Emerson, Jim Farley, Ford, Locker, Mary Dillon, GEHC, Vimal Kapur, Bruce Broussard, Broussard, he's, Eli Lilly, Lilly, Mark Zuckerberg, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley's, James Gorman, Laxman Narasimhan, Elliott, Stanley Black, Decker, Piper, Wells Fargo, Wells, Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer Rob Kim Organizations: Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, CNBC, Club, Apple, Federal Trade, Broadcom, VMWare, Bausch Health, Caterpillar, Costco Wholesale, Costco, Coterra Energy, Exxon Mobil, Natural Resources, Disney, ESPN, Hulu, Comcast, Emerson, National Instruments, Ford, United Auto Workers, Nike, GE Healthcare, Electric, GE, Honeywell International, Honeywell, Humana, Linde, LIN, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, Alto Networks, cyberattacks, Palo Alto Networks, Procter & Gamble, Pioneer, Exxon, Constellation Brands, Elliott Management, FactSet, TJX, Marshalls, Wynn Resorts, WYNN, Jim Cramer's Charitable Locations: China, U.S, Maxx, Las Vegas, Boston, Macau, Asia

☆ Slack staffers are 'gaming' the company's training platform to speed through tasks so they can return to regular duties, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Workers at Salesforce's Slack have been asked to set aside some regular duties to focus on training. This has caused frustration and creative attempts to speed through sessions, sources told Fortune. A Slack spokesperson said the firm experimented with ways to help workers focus on their priorities. AdvertisementAdvertisementSome workers at Salesforce's Slack have been frustrated at being asked to set aside regular meetings to ensure they complete internal training sessions. This has led to workers "gaming" the company's training platform to speed through the sessions, Fortune reported, citing sources.

Persons: Salesforce's Slack, Fortune, Slack, —, Salesforce, Bridgitt Haarsgaard, Haarsgaard Organizations: Salesforce's, Service, Slack

☆ Trust in AI tools like ChatGPT is high among Gen Z — but Gen X and boomers aren't convinced, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Most Gen Xers and boomers in a Salesforce study reported not using generative-AI tools like ChatGPT. Out of all the respondents who said they didn't use generative AI, 68% were born between 1946 and 1980. And 88% of nonusers ages 57 and above said they weren't using generative AI because they didn't know how the technology would affect their lives. AdvertisementAdvertisementFrom firsthand experience, Rogers said he believed that AI technology could make a positive impact on the lives of people about his age. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn fact, the Salesforce research suggested that older nonusers were open to using AI under certain circumstances.

Persons: Xers, —, Gen Xers, Zers, Chris Rogers, Rogers, he'd, he's, Priscilla O'Kesson Organizations: Service, University of Oxford's Institute, Population Ageing, Spectrum Locations: San Francisco, UK, Australia, India, Oklahoma City, Oxford

☆ Top Wall Street analysts pick these five stocks for compelling returns
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

However, the current scenario also offers an opportunity to pick stocks that could generate attractive returns despite short-term pressures. To that end, here are five stocks favored by Wall Street's top analysts, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance. The analyst said the results reinforce his view of Adobe as a winner in an emerging generative artificial intelligence world. "This strategy should enable creatives to better appreciate the productivity benefits of generative AI more quickly, and make Firefly-powered generative AI offerings a critical part of their workflows, creating competitive differentiation as well as increasing the overall value of Creative Cloud," said Zelnick. Rangan holds the 509th position among more than 8,500 analysts on TipRanks.

Persons: Shantanu Narayen, Mark Neuling, Wall, Brad Zelnick, Zelnick, TipRanks, Baird, Colin Sebastian, Sebastian, Bing, Goldman Sachs, Kash Rangan, Rangan Organizations: Adobe, CNBC, Adobe Software, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft Tech, Microsoft, Windows, Bing, TipRanks, FedEx

☆ Salesforce's chief trust officer is leaving less than 18 months in the role, internal memo shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Salesforce Chief Trust Officer Vikram Rao is leaving the company after less than 18 months in the role, according to an internal memo viewed by Insider. In an internal Slack message from earlier this year viewed by Insider, Rao said he was taking time off from June 3 to September 5. He became chief trust officer in June 2022. Salesforce Chief Technology Officer and cofounder Parker Harris will take on Rao's role while Salesforce searches for a replacement, according to the memo. Executive Vice President Mark Carter, whose purview included cybersecurity, left in November and Taher Elgamal, chief technology officer of security, left in February.

Persons: Vikram Rao, Rao, Srinivas Tallapragada, Vikram, Salesforce, Parker Harris, Harris, Neil Storey, Kelly McCracken, Laura Sawka, Jim Weise, Mark Carter, cybersecurity, Taher Elgamal Organizations: Salesforce, Technology, Security Assurance, Insider, Trust, Government Cloud Engineering Locations: Salesforce

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