Morgan Stanley predicts Amazon stock could hit $500 by 2027, driven by AWS scaling into a staggering $1 trillion AI-powered cloud business over the next decade.

Customer work rarely lives in one place. Salesforce holds the account, opportunity, contact, and case details. Jira shows the product work behind a customer commitment. Confluence holds the account plan, enablement materials, and meeting notes. Jira Service Management tracks support requests and escalations. Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, and other tools hold the conversations and assets that explain what’s really happening. https://www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-work/co

Salesforce (CRM+0.34%) made one of the biggest capital-allocation decisions in software this year, and it came in two parts. In March, the company entered a $25 billion accelerated share repurchase -- the largest such deal in history, by its own description -- funded with a $25 billion debt issuance. Then, reporting fiscal first-quarter results in late May, it told investors that fiscal 2027 operating and free-cash-flow growth would come in around 4% to 5%, half the 9% to 10%

The Sonoma estate of Graham Smith, former chief financial officer of Salesforce, is currently listed for sale. On 17 hilltop acres with valley views and 7,370 square feet of living space, the home and guesthouse are listed for $12,900,000. https://www.sonomamag.com/former-salesforce-cfo-lists-sonoma-estate-for-12-9-million/

A fired Salesforce employee can’t avoid arbitration for her gender discrimination claims because she didn’t plausibly allege sexual harassment and therefore didn’t trigger a law banning forced arbitration in such cases, a New York federal judge ruled. Tricia Lane, a former Salesforce regional vice president, sued the company in 2025, alleging she was discriminated against based on her age, disability, and gender and fired when she complained about the treatment. https://news.

Chinese insurance giant Ping An is preparing to sell its half-stake in Sydney’s tallest office building, Salesforce Tower, in a $900 million deal which would show that values even for the city’s best-known landmarks have fallen by around a fifth since their peak four years ago. https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/chinese-insurance-giant-prepares-to-sell-900m-salesforce-tower-stake-20260814-p60oee