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Appears in 7 stories · Last updated Oct 31, 2026
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Oddball, a federal digital services contractor based in Tysons, Virginia, according to its press release, said Oct. 28 it bought the Salesforce technology and services business of Synaptic Era. Synaptic has completed more than 600 Salesforce projects since 2008. It is Oddball's first acquisition since private equity firm Falfurrias Management Partners invested in December 2024. Terms were not disclosed.
Updated Oct 31
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Salesforce agreed on October 20 to buy Braze for about $5.66 billion in cash, or $47.50 a share, a 58% premium to where the stock closed the day before. Braze shares jumped 51.7% to $45.57 on the news and have traded above $45 since.
Updated Oct 26
As of October 2026: Partner via Hunter outbound agent; potential competitor in AI go-to-market
Apollo, the sales prospecting tool used by more than 5 million people, expanded into a full go-to-market system on September 30. At its ApolloNEXT conference in San Francisco, the company unveiled three products that combine data, prioritization, and outreach in one engine: Builder Studio, the Intelligence Layer, and Messaging OS.
Updated Oct 1
As of September 2026: Integrating Live Avatar into Agentforce
Google's enterprise AI can now show its face. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar pairs real-time speech with generated video of an animated persona that lip-syncs and shifts expressions across 97 languages. It ships in Gemini Enterprise, Google's paid business tier, on US and EU endpoints.
Updated Sep 27
As of September 2026: Announced the Trusted Enterprise AI Harness; launched seven named Agentforce agents ahead of Dreamforce 2026
Enterprises are putting AI agents to work across their business systems, which creates a new problem: controlling what those agents can see, do, and spend. Salesforce's answer, unveiled September 10, 2026, is the Trusted Enterprise AI Harness, a software layer that wraps AI in six capabilities: context, agency, action, governance, security, and models.
Updated Sep 15
As of September 2026: Parent company
Slack released a new AI feature called Slackforce Surfaces on Thursday. Users can now describe a dashboard, report, poll, presentation, or microsite to Slackbot, and the assistant builds it directly inside a conversation, pulling data from chat history and connected apps like Google Drive and Salesforce.
Updated Sep 11
As of August 2026: San Francisco's largest private employer, conducting repeated small layoff rounds
Salesforce filed notice with California on August 5 that it will cut 74 jobs at its San Francisco headquarters on October 5. That's the fourth Bay Area layoff round in under a year at San Francisco's largest private employer.
Updated Aug 31
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