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Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) agreed to buy the enterprise communications company Slack (NYSE: WORK) for about $27.7 billion at the beginning of December. The cloud services company will pay $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of its own stock for each share of Slack, and it expects the de

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) recently agreed to purchase workplace collaboration platform Slack (NYSE: WORK) in a $27.7 billion deal, making it the company's largest acquisition yet. While there are certainly arguments to be made that Slack is an excellent complement to Salesforce's pr

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2020 has been a crazy year for the stock market. After getting absolutely crushed in the first quarter, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has spent the rest of the year climbing out of a big hole. By mid-December, the Dow was actually up 5% during 2020, and it ha

Tencent (OTC: TCEHY) announced on Sunday that its acquisition of Leyou Technologies was on track to close after receiving approval from each company's shareholders. Leyou is the parent company of Digital Extremes, the Canada-based video game development studio known for Warframe.

Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the Daily S&P 500 Bear 3X Shares, where 2,700,000 units were destroyed, or a 1.9% decrease week over week.

Barring any unforeseen developments, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will soon be sworn in as 46th President of the United States, officially taking the oath on Jan. 20. As investors, it's understandable to take this time to properly position your portfolio in light of the apparent di

CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077, the highly anticipated video game which debuted last week, is getting hit by negative user reviews for its console version, sending its shares tumbling and raising concerns over the game's success.

CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077, the highly anticipated video game which debuted last week, is getting hit by negative user reviews for its console version, sending its shares tumbling and raising concerns over the game's success.

When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in 1994, it started as an online bookstore. But over the last 26 years, the company has not only become the largest e-commerce retailer in North America, but also expanded into other markets as well. And that diversity has been one of

Everyone thinks of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) as an advertising company with nine products boasting over 1 billion users. That's fair. The company's Google search engine, Gmail, and YouTube are dominant in their categories. But there is another area where the company

A year of heavy consumer spending on video games is coming to an epic conclusion with the release of new consoles like Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 5 (PS5). Other notable new releases just in time for the end of 2020 include Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Oculus Quest 2 for virtual re

In this episode of Motley Fool Answers, Alison Southwick chats with Motley Fool personal finance expert Robert Brokamp and analyst Dylan Lewis about how the tech sector performed in 2020 and what to expect from the industry next year. Dylan also suggests some stocks to put on you

The companies on the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) are widely recognized as some of the top brands around the world: Multiple 2020 rankings placed Nasdaq-100 brands at the top of the pack.

It's been an impressive run, to say the least. Not only is the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) up 37% year to date, as of Wednesday it's up 79% from its March low. And that's factoring in this week's weakness.Stalwarts like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) hav

U.S. online job marketplace ZipRecruiter Inc has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co to lead preparations for an initial public offering (IPO), people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

With a newly announced slate of green energy investments, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is now the world's top corporate investor in such technology, the company said in a press release distributed on Thursday.The giant retailer's new projects comprise 26 new energy-generation facilities

Oracle Corp beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday, as remote work trends boosted cloud product and software licensing sales.

A U.S. lawsuit that could lead to the break-up of Facebook Inc's social media empire may be hindered by the government's role in the company's monopoly building, and a recent dearth of similar cases, legal experts said.

In this episode of Motley Fool Money, Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool analysts Andy Cross and Ron Gross about the latest headlines and earnings reports from Wall Street. They also discuss the falling unemployment rate and market recovery. They've got one of the biggest deals ev