{"id":959659,"date":"2025-09-06T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959659"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:09:52","slug":"salesforces-weak-quarterly-revenue-forecast-signals-lagging-ai-monetization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/06\/salesforces-weak-quarterly-revenue-forecast-signals-lagging-ai-monetization\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce&#8217;s weak quarterly revenue forecast signals lagging AI monetization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce forecast third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling lagging monetization for its highly-touted artificial intelligence agent platform as clients dial back spending due to macroeconomic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud software provider also announced a $20 billion increase to its existing share buyback program, but that was unable to allay investors&#8217; concerns, sending Salesforce&#8217;s shares down over 5% in extended trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce forecast third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling lagging monetization for its highly-touted artificial intelligence agent platform as clients dial back spending due to macroeconomic uncertainty. The cloud software provider also announced a $20 billion increase to its existing share buyback program, but that was unable to allay investors&#8217; concerns, sending Salesforce&#8217;s shares down over 5% in extended trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}