{"id":76453,"date":"2020-12-03T01:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76453"},"modified":"2020-12-03T01:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:37:34","slug":"salesforce-acquires-slack-for-over-27-billion-marking-cloud-software-vendors-largest-deal-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2020\/salesforce-acquires-slack-for-over-27-billion-marking-cloud-software-vendors-largest-deal-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce acquires Slack for over $27 billion, marking cloud software vendor\u2019s largest deal ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=CRM\">Salesforce<\/a> is making the biggest acquisition in its 21-year history, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/investor.salesforce.com\/press-releases\/press-release-details\/2020\/Salesforce-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Slack\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">announcing on Tuesday<\/a> that it\u2019s buying chat software developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=WORK\">Slack<\/a> for over $27 billion. Through a combination of cash and stock, Salesforce is purchasing Slack for $26.79 a share and .0776 shares of Salesforce, according to a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/12\/01\/salesforce-buys-slack-for-27point7-billion-in-cloud-companys-largest-deal.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Salesforce is making the biggest acquisition in its 21-year history, announcing on Tuesday that it\u2019s buying chat software developer Slack for over $27 billion. Through a combination of cash and stock, Salesforce is purchasing Slack for $26.79 a share [&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-76453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76453","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=76453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76454,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76453\/revisions\/76454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}