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Salesforce Closes $3.6B Fin Deal and Eyes Listen Labs at $2B — Agentforce Is Buying Understanding

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Clari + Salesloft Partners With allGood to Turn High-Intent Emails Into Pipeline

LinkedIn Caps Ad Audiences at 1,000 Segments and Adds MQL/SQL Conversion Events

demandDrive: Pipeline Volatility Is Structural Now — and Spray-and-Pray Outbound Is Done

Drips Killed Its Outbound Agency and Rebuilt Prospecting on Signals — Platform Usage Jumped 700%

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Zoom Acquires Common Room: Signal-Based Selling Enters the Platform Era

Reo.Dev Raises $11.3M to Turn Developer Signals Into Sales Pipeline

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