Stifel analyst Tom Roderick attributes today's 5% slide in Salesforce (CRM) shares to the fact that "investors have balked" at the idea of the company buying Twitter (TWTR), which several media reports indicate Salesforce has expressed interest in potentially doing. While it's "easy to believe that the company is at the table," Roderick sees little reason why Salesforce needs to outright own Twitter, noting that its Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud have incorporated data via Twitter's open APIs for years. Salesforce shares have pulled back 16% from the recent highs hit in May and Roderick, who keeps a Buy rating and $93 price target on the stock, sees this as a buying opportunity ahead of Dreamforce and the second half of the year.

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Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. Salesforce (CRM) is in advanced talks to acquire Informatica (INFA) but the price being discussed is below Informatica's closing stock price of $38.48 as a result of the recent jump, Lauren Thomas, Laura Cooper and Dana Cimilluca of Wall Street Journal report, citing people familiar with the matter. 2. Apple (AAPL) denied violating a court order governing its App Store and urged a California federal judge to reject a request by "Fortnite" developer Epic Games to hold it in contempt, Reuters' Mike Scarcella reports. Apple made the arguments in a filing to U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, who presided over Epic's lawsuit in 2020 accusing Apple of violating antitrust law with its tight controls over how consumers download apps and pay for transactions within them. The Apple filing criticized what it called an attempt by Epic to make Apple's "tools and technologies available to developers for free." 3. Netflix (NFLX) is the forgotten tech giant - but its upcoming earnings report should help investors remember why they loved the stock in the first place, Paul R. La Monica writes in this week's edition of Barron's. The streaming-media leader was once part of the Nasdaq's FAANG club, an acronym traders used to describe Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META), Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple, Netflix, and Google owner Alphabet (GOOGL). But FAANG has since been replaced by the Magnificent Seven, a group that includes the four largest FAANGs, as well as Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA)...and excludes Netflix. But with Netflix set to report its first-quarter earnings on April 18, investors shouldn't sleep on the stock, the author says. 4. A24's "Civil War" won this weekend's box office with a $25.7M debut, making it the biggest opening ever for A24. The dystopian action movie sports a B- CinemaScore, with the audience skewing heavily male - 73%. The debut is also the biggest for an R-rated movie this year. 5. Timken (TKR) saw a positive mention in this week's edition of Barron's.