Salesforce.com 2Q Results: Benioff’s Strategy Keeps Profits Growing, Rising Ahead
Salesforce.com's (NYSE: CRM) second-quarter results proved its strategy of adapting its software-as-a-service model to the increased use of the cloud by enterprises can pay off handsomely for investors.
Salesforce.com 2Q Earnings Preview: Benioff’s Cloud Strategy Stays Hot
Salesforce.com’s (NYSE: CRM)’s second-quarter results are expected to show that its strategy of adapting its software-as-a-service model to the increased use of the cloud by enterprises can pay off handsomely for investors.
Oracle?s Shift To Cloud, Rivaling Salesforce.com, Gains Traction
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, reported full-year revenue rose 4 percent to $37.2 billion -- with revenue from the Cloud, or Internet-based computing, reaching a record $1 billion.
Apple's Latest iPad 3 Rocks, to Keep Arch Rivals at Bay
Apple Inc's latest iPad sports a crisper display and an array of technology advances that, while less than revolutionary, may prove enough for now to keep rivals like Amazon.com Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd at bay.
Eva Longoria Named Co-Chair for Obama's Re-Election Campaign: See Full List Here
Eva Longoria, Rahm Emanuel and Kal Penn are among 35 national co-chairs that have been selected for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
Oracle vs. SAP: What’s Left After Taleo Buyout?
Now that perennial slugfest rivals Oracle and SAP have snapped up more human-resources software providers for the cloud, what’s left?
Oracle Buying Taleo for $1.9B as Cloud War Brews
Oracle Corp agreed to buy Taleo Corp, a maker of Web-based software for recruiting employees, for about $1.9 billion, as technology giants battle for the top spot in the fast-growing cloud computing market.
Salesforce.com Enters HR Software Business
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..
Analysis: SAP's new Coud Czar to Take on Salesforce, Oracle
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 2.0 Summit: Sean Parker Talks Threats to Facebook, Twitter Talks Monetization
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.
Toyota, Salesforce.com Create Car-Based Social Network
Social networking is coming to your next automobile thanks to Toyota.
Salesforce.com To Acquire Radian6 for about $326 mln
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.
Top 5 tech founders who gave the most to charities in 2010 [PHOTOS]
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.
Is Davos 2011 the greatest concentration of wealth in history?
The gathering of business elites at Davos may witness the greatest concentration wealth in any one locale in history.
Succession Mysteries Abound Top Tech Firms
A look at the unanswered question of leadership succession at three of the world's high-profile corporate organizations
Top After-Market NYSE Movers
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 acquires Heroku; ramps up platform-as-a-service offering
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 builds enterprise database for cloud; unveils Chatter Free
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 wooing Salesforce.com customers with rebates
Microsoft is offering customers of Salesforce.com thousands of dollars in rebates in a bid to woo them to its CRM system.