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Donald Trump during a Super Tuesday election night watch party at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on March 5, 2024.Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it’s unfortunate timing for the former president. He was right in the middle of furiously tweeting (or Truth-ing, to use the site’s tortured parlance) about President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech. - Matt Novak Read

Tech Billionaire Tries to Ease Fears of Hawaii Takeover by Donating $150 Million to Hospitals

Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. He’s been quite cagey about what most of this land is for and was more than a little bit hostile with the NPR journalist who broke the story about it. Now, in what really seems like

Billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Is Buying Up Hawaii

While normal, middle-class Americans struggle to buy starter homes or even just afford rent, American billionaires are busy buying up huge tracts of land all over the world for nebulous reasons. Case in point: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who is estimated to be worth over $10 billion, is said to be buying up huge chunks of land in Hawaii. Why? Nobody knows and Benioff won’t say why.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoNPR was the first to report that the billionaire had recently bought “at least 38 parcels of…

Davos 2024: Davos 2024: Top quotes from tech world’s leading minds on artificial intelligence

The political and business elites of the world gathered at Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual World Economic Forum meet. In all, about 60 heads of state and 800 CEOs were in attendance among a total of 2,800 participants, as they discussed wide-ranging issues — from climate change to economic slowdowns — at both formal and informal gatherings. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIndian School of BusinessISB…

Salesforce escaped from the jaws of activists to find stability in 2023

The company began the year with a ton of turmoil This year did not start off great for Salesforce, with an unusual level of turbulence and uncertainty surrounding the company. But as the year comes to a close, Salesforce finds itself in surprisingly good shape financially: Its stock is up over 96% year-to-date. Earlier this year, such an outcome would have seemed impossible to imagine. The bad news started rolling in even before the new year began, when co-CEO Bret Taylor, who many…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff shares his predictions for AI and the future of work

Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff has become something of a vanishing breed during the nearly quarter century he has been running the company that pioneered the concept of selling software as an online subscription. While Benioff remains in charge at Salesforce, other billionaire founder/CEOs such Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Larry Page and Netflix's Reed Hastings have all stepped away from groundbreaking companies born during the 1990s.Benioff, 58, isn't ready to leave Salesforce yet, even though he has amassed…

Salesforce Tells Employees It Will Donate $10 Per Day to Charity if They Come Back to the Office

Business software monolith Salesforce is reportedly so desperate to see its employees back in the office that the company will donate a little less than the price of a McDonald’s Big Mac meal to charity for every day workers physically drag themselves to the office. Rob Savage on Collaborating with YellowJackets’ Sophie ThatcherSalesforce confirmed with Gizmodo that the company was hosting a global program to incentivize workers to come into the office, called “Connect for Good.” Fortune originally reported Tuesday based…

Salesforce Earnings Rise as Margins Grow

Amid turnaround efforts, the company lifts its margin goals for the year. Amid turnaround efforts, the company lifts its margin goals for the year. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your…

Tech Billionaires Bet on Fusion as Holy Grail for Business

Sam Altman became a tech sensation this year as the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence startup that seems pulled from science fiction.  But Mr. Altman, who has been among Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors for more than a decade, has placed one of the biggest bets of his career on a company that might be even more futuristic: a nuclear-fusion startup called Helion Energy Inc.  Sam Altman became a tech sensation this year as the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence…

Zuckerberg and Meta Curb Remote Work

Meta hiring managers were allegedly instructed to remove “Remote” from job listings.Image: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)The days of work-from-home could be dwindling for Meta employees. Hiring managers at the tech giant are reportedly no longer able to list jobs as remote as the company seemingly abandons its easy breezy work-from-home policy. Making the Facebook Papers PublicAs detailed by Insider, the hiring manager directive is only one example of Meta seemingly abandoning the remote work flexibility that made