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Google named Best Place to Work in U.S. by Fortune

Posted January 19, 2012 - 3:09 pm

Google moved up three spots to claim the top position in Fortune's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the U.S.
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15 top technology quotes of 2011

Posted December 13, 2011 - 4:30 pm

As another year draws to a close, we look back on the IT-related comments that stuck with us.
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10 most powerful cloud companies

Posted December 8, 2011 - 2:15 pm

Virtually every vendor has a cloud story to tell. But here are 10 companies that have distinguished themselves as the leaders in cloud computing.
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Making sense of a tangled CRM field

Posted November 29, 2011 - 8:22 pm

Few would argue that Salesforce.com has made customer relationship management a household name. But the field of CRM competitors is continuing to swell, with software makers and service providers of all sizes challenging the pioneer.
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Benioff comes out swinging at Oracle

Posted October 5, 2011 - 2:06 pm

The Salesforce.com chief continued his spat with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Wednesday morning -- and you might not see Marc Benioff at an Oracle conference again.
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Oracle cancels Marc Benioff's keynote

Posted October 5, 2011 - 2:02 am

Salesforce.com chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff will on Wednesday speak at a local restaurant in San Francisco, after his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 was cancelled by Oracle.
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Fujitsu rolls out Salesforce.com to internal staff

Posted September 29, 2011 - 6:14 am

Fujitsu has rolled out Salesforce.com technology internally to 1,200 of its staff as part of a customer relationship management (CRM) system refresh.
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Salesforce alternatives: 5 CRM services for small businesses

Posted September 12, 2011 - 9:08 am

Customer relationship management (CRM) programs have a bad reputation for being overly technical, burdensome to implement, and a chore to use. This can certainly be true of some services, especially for owners of small to medium-size businesses who lack the funds or resources to customize the CRM properly to meet their company's needs. Salesforce, for example, is popular but not necessarily lightweight or easy to get off the ground.
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Cloud computing and governance in the digital age - Part 3

Posted September 8, 2011 - 9:13 am

During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud computing and governance in the digital age. The panelincluded former US federal government chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, and Burberry chief executive officer, Angela Ahrendts.
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Salesforce.com gets into ERP with Infor, Workday

Posted September 1, 2011 - 12:47 pm

Salesforce.com is strengthening its hand in the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market, announcing on Thursday two new partnerships with Infor and Workday that will result in an intermingling of the companies' applications and technologies.
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Salesforce.com CEO slams Oracle calling it a 'false cloud'

Posted June 17, 2011 - 9:23 am

During his Thursday keynote at the company's Cloudforce event in Boston, CEO Marc Benioff called for a cloud computing test.
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Marc Benioff: 3 steps to becoming a social enterprise

Posted June 16, 2011 - 5:36 pm

The Salesforce.com CEO keynoted at the company's Cloudforce event in Boston Thursday.
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Salesforce.com's Benioff pushes 'social enterprises'

Posted June 16, 2011 - 3:52 pm

Salesforce.com is ready to help customers turn their businesses into "social enterprises," CEO Marc Benioff said Thursday during the on-demand software vendor's Cloudforce event in Boston.
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Salesforce.com's Benioff talks growth, Microsoft

Posted June 6, 2011 - 1:04 pm

Salesforce.com has come a long way from its beginnings as an on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor.
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Toyota, Salesforce.com set up vehicle owner social network

Posted May 23, 2011 - 4:52 am

Toyota Motor will partner Salesforce.com to offer owners of its electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles a private social network, Toyota Friend, for sharing maintenance tips, the companies announced Monday.
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Is your employer on Fortune's list of '100 best companies to work for'?

Posted April 26, 2011 - 3:52 pm

For the second year in a row, North Carolina-based business software vendor SAS has been selected by Fortune magazine as the best company to work for.
SAS is one of four technology companies among the top 10 in Fortune's list, which can be seen in full here.
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New app makes Salesforce.com easier to use

Posted April 14, 2011 - 8:10 am

Salesforce.com's growth and popularity are undeniable, but startup Active Endpoints is betting that its customers could use a little help getting the most out of the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software with a new application called Cloud Extend.
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Salesforce.com adds socialytics with Radian6 acquisition

Posted March 31, 2011 - 4:57 pm

Early today, March 30, 2011, Salesforce.com announced its intention to acquire social media analytics specialist Radian6 for $326M in a combination cash and stock deal that is expected to close in Salesforce.com's second fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2011.
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Salesforce.com and Intuit tying QuickBooks to CRM

Posted March 31, 2011 - 4:25 pm

Salesforce.com and Intuit announced Friday that they plan to integrate their respective CRM (customer relationship management) and QuickBooks accounting applications, in an alliance meant to further win the hearts and pocketbooks of the world's millions of small businesses.
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Salesforce.com buying social monitoring vendor Radian6

Posted March 30, 2011 - 11:07 am

Salesforce.com plans to buy social media monitoring vendor Radian6, whose technology tracks conversations occurring on social sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the company said Wednesday.
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CRM: Avoid 3 user identity mistakes

Posted March 22, 2011 - 10:57 am

Putting customers aside for once, let's talk about your users who log in and work with CRM systems daily. Are you making any of these three big mistakes while managing user identities?
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Salesforce Service Cloud 3 adds customer social networking

Posted March 7, 2011 - 11:26 am

I was pleasantly surprised during an online presentation about Salesforce.com's Service Cloud 3. At first glance, it looks like a simple and powerful customer relationship management (CRM) tool that takes advantage of social networking to help connect with customers.
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Salesforce.com deepens tie-in to Facebook

Posted March 3, 2011 - 9:04 am

Salesforce.com is deepening the integration between its CRM (customer relationship management) and customer service software with the explosively popular social-networking site Facebook, Salesforce.com will announce on Thursday at an event in New York.
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Salesforce.com shares take big hit

Posted February 28, 2011 - 7:05 pm

Shares of enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) fell nearly 5 percent Monday after a Wall Street Journal article poked holes in the company's recent fourth quarter financial report and basic fundamentals.
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The inherent unfairness of employee non-compete agreements

Posted February 24, 2011 - 4:41 pm

Maybe instead of pressuring prospective employees to sign non-compete agreements in order to keep them from going to a rival, companies should compete to keep their valued workers. Or just let them go.
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