Salesforce + Slack = ?
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🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Salesforce is reportedly set to announce an acquisition of Slack, but what will the result be for shareholders? General Motors walks away from taking an equity stake in Nikola, causing Nikola shares to fall 25%. Jason Moser analyzes those stories, as well as Shopify’s role in a record-setting Black Friday for online sales.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Monday, November 30th. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris, so with me today. |
| 0:07.0 | Mr. Jason Moser. |
| 0:08.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:09.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:10.0 | It is merger Monday, sort of. We've got one deal in the making, we have another deal in the, let's call it remaking, but we're going to start with Black Friday. In-store sales on Black Friday were 52% lower than a year ago. |
| 0:26.6 | That should not surprise anyone. Online sales were up big. Also not a surprise. This actually did surprise me a little bit though |
| 0:34.7 | Jason online sales on Friday in the United States made it the second biggest day |
| 0:41.2 | ever for online sales. Cyber Monday last year is the biggest |
| 0:46.2 | all-time. Black Friday this year, second place that might get bumped down to |
| 0:51.4 | third place after this year's Cyber Monday, but what did you think of the reports you saw of Black Friday? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, I mean I think you hit on something there in regard to today cyber Monday I think you're right |
| 1:06.2 | I mean it no surprise I mean online spending on Black Friday grew 21.6 that was a a new record. It was around $9 billion worth of purchases that were recorded. |
| 1:18.0 | In the forecast for today, for Cyber Monday this year, it's slated to become the largest digital sales day ever. |
| 1:25.7 | Spending is forecast to reach somewhere between 10.8 billion and 12.7 billion dollars |
| 1:31.3 | that would represent growth of 15 to 35 percent from last year. |
| 1:35.8 | No surprise really there. |
| 1:38.4 | I think to me what really stood out, and again not surprising but still stood out because it's |
| 1:45.1 | just pretty darn impressive was Shopify. Shopify has stocked that obviously a |
| 1:52.4 | lot of our listeners a lot of our members |
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