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The holiday quarter starts in about two weeks. And for e-commerce companies, it’s the three months that matter most. Consider Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP). The e-commerce software company earned $631 million of operating income in last year’s fourth quarter — 43% of its operating income for all of 2025.

People are searching in fundamentally different ways, using cameras, conversations, and keywords to find what they want. At the same time, discovery is happening before many searches, as recommendation engines curate content and help people develop preferences before they ever type a query.

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), the customer-management software giant, reported $1.5 billion in Agentforce annual recurring revenue ahead of Dreamforce, giving investors a bigger AI business to scrutinize. Shares stood at $252.73 in Monday’s snapshot, roughly 2% higher using the earlier quote’s implied previous close. According to ABC7, more than 43,000 people are expected at the conference beginning…

IPO readiness extends far beyond technical accounting, requiring companies to operate like public entities months before filing. Finance leaders must establish robust financial architecture, align stakeholders across departments, and address historical accounting issues that can derail timelines when exposed to public-company scrutiny. United StatesFinance and Banking To print this article, all you need is to…

Business-customer relations is a deliberate investment in building trust, loyalty, and long-term engagement to drive sustainable growth, retention, and competitive advantage. Unlike customer service, which focuses on resolving immediate issues, customer relations takes a long-term view, aiming to nurture loyalty and satisfaction throughout the entire customer lifecycle. To achieve this, some businesses often use customer…

A man who is about to stand trial for stabbing kindergartners reportedly used ChatGPT to help him plan out the attack.

Texas Democrat James Talarico says he’s running for Senate to make “the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share of taxes.” And yet, one week after launching his campaign, he quietly formed an LLC whose registered agent is a high-profile Austin accountant known for helping the wealthy “escape” taxes. Talarico could use the arrangement to lower…

Every major analytics modernization effort shares the same aspiration: Replace static reports with AI-powered insights, give executives answers instead of data, and make intelligence conversational.

For marketing and CX leaders, the value of predictive modeling isn’t in model sophistication. It’s in what the model changes: where budget gets allocated, which customers or prospects receive outreach and ultimately, the business results a campaign produces.

Salesforce just posted an earnings beat that sent the stock surging 34%, but theer before buying in at these levels