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Tech giant brings software to a gun fight — Washington Post

Business-software giant Salesforce instituted a new policy barring retail customers from using its technology to sell semiautomatic weapons and some other firearms, writes Jay...

Venture capitalists bet big on the $1.9 trillion payments industry — CNBC

Upstart payment firms have attracted big corporate clients and billions of dollars in venture capital money, writes Ryan Browne. Here is the link: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/venture-capital-investors-bullish-on-online-payments.html

Simplus raises $20M

Salesforce quote-to-cash company Simplus has raised $20 million.

San Francisco tech billionaires go to war over homelessness — Wired

Proposition C, a bill to fight homelessness with a new business tax, slid into San Francisco’s DMs in the middle of the night, politically...

Salesforce, AWS expand global strategic alliance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce have expanded their global strategic alliance. The companies announced new product integrations for customers to share and synchronize data across AWS and Salesforce services and deeper integration.