Stewart Butterfield (C), co-founder and chief govt officer of Slack, and Allen Shim (2nd L), chief monetary officer of Slack, ring the opening bell the New York Inventory Alternate (NYSE), June 20, 2019 in New York Metropolis.
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Shares of Slack rose 27% Wednesday following a Wall Avenue Journal report that Salesforce held talks to purchase the corporate.
Salesforce inventory dropped greater than 4% on the information.
The deal would seemingly worth Slack at greater than its market cap of $17 billion, in keeping with the report. It could additionally grow to be Salesforce’s largest acquisition to this point, following its purchase of Tableau in 2019 for more than $15 billion. A deal just isn’t assured and the talks may name by way of, the Wall Avenue Journal reported.
Shares of Microsoft, which competes with Slack by way of its Groups providing, dipped barely.
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