| Hello and welcome to the Computerworld UK Weekly Digest. This week saw Salesforce take a page out of the Oracle playbook by shifting to a shared CEO model. The SaaS CRM giant announced that COO Keith Block has been appointed as co-CEO alongside founder Marc Benioff. The two will split duties down the middle, with Benioff in charge of vision, innovation and culture and Block in charge of, well, operations. How this will impact Benioff's position at a company he effectively embodies, only time will tell, but he is certainly following in the footsteps of his one-time mentor Larry Ellison, who has increasingly receded from day-to-day leadership responsibilities at Oracle. For Block this completes a pretty incredible redemption curve following his ouster from Oracle in 2012 for saying some less-than-flattering things about company president Mark Hurd. Aside from Silicon Valley boardroom drama this week we've been busy writing about how Bloomberg financial reporters are leaning more and more heavily on AI and data science, Facebook's desire to incorporate user's financial information into new services, and his Deliveroo launched WhatsApp notifications in just two weeks. | 
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