{"id":76414,"date":"2020-11-30T01:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76414"},"modified":"2020-11-30T01:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:21:49","slug":"salesforce-buying-slack-would-mark-the-first-big-software-deal-in-a-boom-year-for-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2020\/salesforce-buying-slack-would-mark-the-first-big-software-deal-in-a-boom-year-for-the-cloud.html","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce buying Slack would mark the first big software deal in a boom year for the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The tech industry has seen some hefty deals announced during the 2020 pandemic, including several in the tens of billions of dollars. But not in software.That could change soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=CRM\">Salesforce<\/a>, which has been one of tech\u2019s biggest acquirers in recent years, has been in talks to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=WORK\">Slack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/The tech industry has seen some hefty deals announced during the 2020 pandemic, including several in the tens of billions of dollars. But not in software.  That could change soon. Salesforce, which has been one of tech\u2019s biggest acquirers in recent years, has been in talks to buy Slack\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The tech industry has seen some hefty deals announced during the 2020 pandemic, including several in the tens of billions of dollars. But not in software.That could change soon. Salesforce, which has been one of tech\u2019s biggest acquirers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76415,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76414\/revisions\/76415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}