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Salesforce put Joe Inzerillo over both Slack and Agentforce and named new security, marketing and architecture chiefs, replacing five senior executives who had left since December.

Salesforce closed fiscal 2026 with $41.5 billion of revenue, up 10%, authorised a new $50 billion buyback, lifted its dividend 5.8% to $0.44 and raised its FY2030 target to $63 billion.

Salesforce said a known threat group was mass-scanning public Experience Cloud sites with a modified Mandiant tool and pulling CRM data through overly permissive guest user profiles.

Salesforce sold $25 billion of senior notes in eight tranches maturing from 2028 to 2066, to pay for a $25 billion accelerated share repurchase agreed the same evening.

Salesforce prepaid $25 billion to five banks and took delivery of about 103 million of its own shares, roughly 80% of the total, in what it called the largest accelerated share repurchase in history.

Salesforce closed its purchase of Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent, for consideration it valued at $1.2 billion, mostly cash.

Salesforce's developer conference filled Moscone West for two days of 400+ technical sessions, where it unveiled Headless 360, exposing its platform to coding agents as APIs, MCP tools and CLI commands.

Tableau's annual conference took over the San Diego Convention Center for three days, where Tableau recast itself as an agentic analytics platform built on 33 million semantic models.

Salesforce's new Builder programme, run through its Futureforce university recruiting, set out to hire 1,000 graduates and interns into engineering, product and sales roles building Agentforce.

Salesforce appointed Guy Wanger, its former EY lead audit partner, as chief accounting officer and principal accounting officer, starting on 15 June 2026.

Salesforce's fiscal 2027 opened with $11.1 billion of revenue, up 13%, non-GAAP EPS up 50% to $3.88 as its $25 billion buyback cut the share count, and Agentforce ARR above $1 billion.

Salesforce agreed to buy Contentful, the composable content platform used by more than 4,800 brands, for about $1.5 billion in cash to give Headless 360 and Agentforce a native content layer.

Salesforce's marketing conference ran two days at Chicago's McCormick Place West, launching the Hunter prospecting agent and Qualified's Piper SDR agent, with Martha Stewart and Alex Honnold on stage.

Salesforce signed a deal to buy Fin, the customer-service AI agent company formerly called Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to add fast-to-deploy service agents alongside Agentforce.

The Hoge Raad quashed the Amsterdam appeal court's admission of The Privacy Collective's GDPR mass claim over Oracle's and Salesforce's ad-tech and sent it to the Hague Court of Appeal.

Salesforce promoted revenue chief Miguel Milano to chief operating officer, while president and chief engineering officer Srini Tallapragada stepped down after 14 years to advise Marc Benioff for a year.

Salesforce's fiscal second quarter brought $11.3 billion of revenue, up 11%, GAAP EPS of $4.29 lifted by a $2.6 billion gain on its Anthropic stake, a higher full-year outlook and the stock's second-best day ever.

Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, starting with Salesforce in Claude, a plugin with 37 prebuilt sales skills, and made Claude the default model for Slack and Slackbot.

Salesforce closed its roughly $1.5 billion purchase of Contentful, adding the headless content platform to Headless 360 so Agentforce can assemble personalised content across channels.

New Core ($195), Advanced ($395) and Max ($550 per user a month) editions of Agentforce Sales, Service and Industries bundle Slack, Tableau Next, security and Flex Credits into one purchase.

Salesforce closed its roughly $3.6 billion purchase of Fin, formerly Intercom, whose AI customer agent resolves an average 76% of queries and now sits in Salesforce's AI Labs.

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley refused to dismiss most claims that Salesforce's lax OAuth security let hackers steal Allianz, Farmers and TransUnion customers' data.

Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 filled Moscone North, South and West for three days, where Marc Benioff unveiled AIforce, bringing Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, Slack and other tools, with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Nvidia's Jensen Huang on stage.

At its Investor Day during Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce held to more than $63 billion of revenue by fiscal 2030, above analysts' $59.2 billion, and said it had returned 190% of this year's free cash flow through its record buyback.

Salesforce's cut of 74 jobs at its 415 Mission Street headquarters, its fourth round of San Francisco layoffs since September 2025, is scheduled to begin in early October.

Salesforce's second Washington round in a year cuts 59 jobs, among them engineers, product directors and Tableau support staff, at its Fremont and Bellevue offices from 5 October 2026.

Salesforce brings the best of Dreamforce 2026 to ExCeL London for a free one-day show of Agentforce, Data 360 and Slack demos, customer talks and an opening keynote.

Final settlement of Salesforce's record $25 billion accelerated share repurchase, when the banks deliver the last of the shares beyond the 103 million received up front in March.

Salesforce's free one-day Agentforce World Tour returns to the Palais des Congrès de Paris with the best of Dreamforce 2026, product demos and customer case studies.

Salesforce Japan's second World Tour Tokyo of 2026 runs two days at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, opening with a keynote by Marc Benioff and Mitsubishi Electric's CEO.

Judge Charles Breyer holds a case management conference in the authors' class action over Salesforce's xGen training data, with fact discovery due to close in July 2027.

Salesforce's German World Tour stop fills Hall C6 of Messe München for a day of AIforce, Slackforce and Claudeforce demos and 50+ breakout sessions.

Salesforce reports its August-October 2026 quarter, guided at $11.42-11.50 billion of revenue, up 11-12%, and the first to include Contentful and Fin if both deals close in the quarter as expected.

Salesforce's developer conference for developers, admins, architects and IT leaders returns to San Francisco and Salesforce+ on 10-11 March 2027.

Salesforce's marketing conference, where marketers see its agentic marketing tools, comes back to Chicago and Salesforce+ on 19-20 May 2027.

Salesforce has set Dreamforce 2027 for 21-23 September 2027 at San Francisco's Moscone Center and on Salesforce+, with registration opening in spring 2027.