Department of Justice closed its antitrust probe and gave its approval to the acquisition. The last hurdle to the deal's completion came last week when the U.S.The $27.7 billion deal is the latest in a string of big acquisitions for Salesforce, which includes the company's $15.7 billion all-stock deal for data-analytics company Tableau Software, in 2019, and its $5.7 billion acquisition of application programming interface developer MuleSoft, in 2018. Salesforce originally announced plans to acquire Slack for a combination of cash and stock in December 2020.In a statement announcing the deal's completion, Benioff said that with Slack, Salesforce would 'define the future of enterprise software' by helping businesses create digital headquarters that will improve their employees' ability to work remotely. Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff wasn't shy regarding his feelings about bringing Slack into the Salesforce universe.

If it hadn't done so already, Salesforce ( CRM +0.8%) officially threw itself into the work-from-anywhere market Wednesday as it officially completed its $27.7 billion acquisition of messaging technology leader Slack Technologies.

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