Zuora goes private in $1.7 billion deal with Silver Lake, GIC
The company will continue to be led by founder and CEO Tien Tzuo, who added that going private will help the Zuora build out its monetization suite
Adobe launches Firefly Video Model as GenStudio for Performance Marketing goes to GA
Adobe launched its Firefly Video Model in beta, added Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing and layered generative AI features throughout its suite of products.
Sam's Club CEO Nicholas on AI, frictionless commerce, focus on members
Chris Nicholas, President and CEO Sam's Club, said artificial intelligence is enabling the company to "take 100 million tasks out of our clubs" even though it has more associates.
Amazon launches Project Amelia for third party sellers, powered by AWS
Amazon is rolling out a series of generative AI tools for third-party sellers built on Amazon Web Services' models and Amazon Bedrock.
Salesforce Dreamforce 2024: Takeaways on agentic AI, platform, end of copilot era
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff laid out the company’s AI vision, which revolves around autonomous agents working with humans and the end of the “hit or miss” copilot era. The mission for Benioff: Put the copilot era to bed and focus on agentic AI powered by one platform the Salesforce platforms. Benioff said he wanted his customers to use Agentforce to deploy AI agents at Dreamforce.
Salesforce adds AI agents to Marketing, Commerce Clouds, Slack at Dreamforce 2024
Salesforce rolled out Agentforce additions across its Marketing and Commerce Clouds as well as Slack as it harmonizes its platform with AI agents.
With Salesforce push, AI Agents, agentic AI overload looms
Generative AI has been the topic du jour for more than 18 months, but now the baton is going to be handed to agentic AI if Salesforce and other enterprise technology giants have their way.
Adobe earnings: Solid Q3, but Q4 outlook light
Adobe reported better than expected third quarter earnings as its primary segments delivered double-digit growth from a year ago. However, the fourth quarter outlook was lower than expected.