*By Jacqueline Corba*
Salesforce has saved a seat at its executive meetings for Einstein, an artificial intelligence-powered robot developed by the cloud computing company.
"The fact that we are using our own products to really drive our forecasting, it's pretty amazing," said Bob Stutz, CEO of Salesforce's Marketing Cloud. "It is really great to have that tool that you can use every single day to run your business."
Salesforce's chief executive, Marc Benioff, has been an outspoken proponent of the company's use of A.I., and said that Einstein has [been at every weekly senior staff meeting](http://fortune.com/2018/01/25/salesforce-benioff-einstein-davos-ai/) for the last year.
Stutz said Einstein pulls his weight on a team that has grown its quarterly revenue by 41 percent year over year.
"We are on an incredible tear right now," Stutz said in an interview with Cheddar. "It's really helping customers connect with their consumers across sales, marketing, service ー it's a real growth driver for us nowadays."
For the full interview, [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/inside-salesforce-marketing-cloud-growth).
Blockparty wants to stop bots from nabbing all the good seats at your favorite concert and prevent ticket fraud by using blockchain technology to sell tickets, says Shiv Madan, CEO of the ticket-selling start-up.
The technology company has reportedly been developing check-out technology that, much like the Amazon Go store, tracks what shoppers add to their cart and bills them automatically. Microsoft's decision to develop this technology is driven by its ambition to boost its cloud business, says Jeffrey Dastin, the Reuters technology correspondent who first reported the story.
The cable giant offered $65 billion for the assets of 21st Century Fox and even said it would reimburse more than $1.5 billion of the breakup fee Disney would have to pay if its bid fell through. Daniel Ives of GBH Insights expects Disney to come in with another offer and that a deal will ultimately get done at a price tag even higher than what's currently on the table.
Some child psychologists see young patients struggle with the effects of playing the video game too much. Fortnite's popularity with children lies in its short format and ease of access, says Sara Miller, health editor at Live Science.
Big-time media mergers have renewed a policy debate in Washington over concentrating too much corporate control in a few powerful hands, said Axios tech reporter David McCabe.
AT&T, once it completes its acquisition of Time Warner, will launch a free 'skinny' bundle called AT&T Watch for all its wireless subscribers, putting the newly created company in direct competition with internet streaming companies. "That is going to be a really disruptive move by AT&T," says Rich Greenfield, analyst at BTIG.
With AT&T's offer for Time Warner getting the green light from a U.S. judge Tuesday, BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield says Comcast will finally get its chance to go after the assets of 21st Century Fox.
The 2018 World Cup starts on Thursday, and Jason Gurwin, co-founder and CEO of FOMOPOP, discusses the best ways to watch all of the soccer games from Russia.
In an email to employees, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk said the company would cut 9 percent of its workforce, mostly affecting salaried employees and not on the production line. The layoffs will not affect Model 3 production targets, Musk said.
