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...As Lex notes, Elliott has previously focused on Japanese businesses that were doing poorly....
...Salesforce appointed three new directors to its board on Friday as the software giant seeks to fend off criticism from activist investors and turn round a business being hit hard by the broader tech downturn...
...’s assets and operations as a going concern....
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...It has expanded this idea by working with the business to develop a new virtual “workplace as a service” (WaaS), providing the hardware and software support needed for businesses to use virtual reality technology...
...Pichai said the trimmed workforce at Alphabet would help sharpen the company’s focus particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, which he described as a “substantial opportunity”....
...So to help us understand that, we’re running a survey that you can find online at FT.com/btmsurvey. That’s FT.com/btmsurvey. There’s also a link in our show notes....
...“I do sort of have a grander vision for what I thought X.com or X Corporation could have been back in the day . . ....
...The India chief executive of software giant Salesforce said the country’s IT sector is grappling with a skills shortage “crisis”, as companies struggle to meet surging demand and compete with well-funded...
...It runs as a public benefit corporation, “creating open-source software that medical regulators can use to rapidly understand how a study design operates and form confident opinions”, per its website....
...In earnings, Chinese search company Baidu and business software company Salesforce.com report. Wednesday: Cloud company Snowflake reports, along with food delivery service Just Eat Takeaway....
...Some of the emerging tech giants of recent years such as Nvidia and Salesforce, are off more than 20 per cent....
...“The burden of proof is squarely on their shoulders to convince investors, when they said they wouldn’t be doing anything like this for a while,” said Mr Zukin....
...The vast majority of large US companies are incorporated in Delaware, which is perceived as shareholder-friendly and where the courts have been clear that a corporation’s reason for existence is to serve...
...with Salesforce’s core business....
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...“Because strangely doing another CEO job doesn’t necessarily meet that brief and certainly not doing one in a smaller company.”...
...Leo Strine, former chief justice of the Delaware supreme court, supports modernising the 1930s New Deal for a 21st century economy to protect key stakeholders through measures such as curbs on the gig economy...
...The FT is offering a free 30-day trial to Coronavirus Business Update, which includes access to FT.com....
...Even as a third country, the UK would need certain permissions from Brussels to accept EU business....
...Please get in touch at energy.source@ft.com....
...iAbra is linked to Lord Global Corporation, formerly called Bigfoot Projects Investments Inc (after, yes, the fictional monster), to bankroll the distribution of its Virolens machines throughout Australia...
...In other moves: Salesforce.com, Uber Eats Keith Block has stepped down as co-chief executive of Salesforce.com after 18 months, in another unexpected move, leaving Marc Benioff alone at the helm....
...Now it’s merely an opposing party in a Delaware lawsuit....
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