
SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff would have kept pursuing a deal to buy Twitter if news of the process hadn’t leaked, he told a conference this week, and said he believes Microsoft’s plans for his former target, LinkedIn, may be illegal.
“We’ve never had a deal leak before; we don’t really understand that dynamic,” Benioff said at a conference held by the Wall Street Journal, as reported by VentureBeat. “We had to stop because I’m running the business in partnership with…