MARC BENIOFF

Salesforce.com Inc is entering the business of selling human resources software in a move that raises the stakes in its battle to woo customers away from bigger rivals SAP AG and Oracle Corp..

SAP AG's purchase of Web-based software company SuccessFactors Inc could be the catalyst the old-school German technology giant needs to try to catch up to rivals in the fast-growing cloud computing market.

Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc forecast current-quarter earnings broadly in line with Wall Street estimates and posted a quarterly net loss as its marketing and sales costs increased sharply.

The Web 2.0 Summit began on Oct. 17 in San Francisco, CA. It is a meeting of the minds of some of the biggest, most successful technology companies in this day and age.

Salesforce.com Inc scored a coup by publicizing a dispute with rival Oracle Corp over something seemingly as mundane as the timing of a speech.

Salesforce.com Inc and Oracle Corp engaged in a public spat over a keynote speech on Wednesday, highlighting the software companies' increasingly bitter rivalry.

A source at Oracle Corp denied the company had canceled the keynote speech of Salesforce.com Inc Chief Executive Marc Benioff at Oracle OpenWorld and said Oracle had instead changed the time of the speech.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote address to Oracle World was scratched in a move the former Oracle VP didn’t understand.

Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc's Chief Executive Marc Benioff unveiled a slew of social networking tools and said he was inspired by recent revolutions in Egypt and Libya.

Legendary Apple CEO Steve jobs resigned on Wednesday, citing health concerns and his inability to meet his duties and expectations as Apple's CEO.

Social networking is coming to your next automobile thanks to Toyota.

Toyota Motor Corp and cloud computing company Salesforce.com Inc will build a social network service that will enable owners to become friends with their cars and get friendly, tweet-like reminders for maintenance checks and other notices.

Salesforce.com's $326 million purchase of privately held Radian6 will allow the cloud-based software maker help its clients track customer trends on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Salesforce.com said it agreed to acquire Radian6, a social media monitoring platform, for about $326 million in cash and stock deal a move that will help Salesforce to effectively market its cloud-based products.

A list titled The Philanthropy 50: Americans Who Gave the Most in 2010 compiled by The Chronicle of Philanthropy includes names of some key tech honchos who have allocated portions of their fortunes for various philanthropic causes following Bill Gates' example.

The gathering of business elites at Davos may witness the greatest concentration wealth in any one locale in history.

A look at the unanswered question of leadership succession at three of the world's high-profile corporate organizations

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are Office Depot, Accenture, Salesforce.com and American Express. The top after market NYSE most active stocks are Citigroup, Boston Scientific, Sprint Nextel Corporation and Bank of America.

Salesforce is on the roll as the enterprise cloud-computing company announced that it has acquired Heroku, a company that offers Ruby platform-as-a-service (PaaS), for $212 million cash, just a day after releasing Database.com, the first cloud-based enterprise database.

Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company, on Tuesday launched Database.com, which is touted as the world’s first enterprise database built for the cloud.

Microsoft is offering customers of Salesforce.com thousands of dollars in rebates in a bid to woo them to its CRM system.