Benioff used his clout in Indiana to force its governor, Mike Pence, to change a law discriminating against gays BloombergMarc Benioff is used to being stared at. It comes with the territory when you are a 6ft 5in tech billionaire with a penchant for burgers and double portions. Last month, the co-founder of American software giant Salesforce expressed an interest in Twitter, the troubled social network. The attention that has come his way since then has gone off the scale. Twitter’s fate has been up in the air since the summer, when one of its co-founders, Ev Williams, said the company would have to consider offers.

Source: The Times October 15, 2016 23:03 UTC