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Salesforce Shareholders Reject CEO Marc Benioff’s Compensation Plan
Compensation packages for Salesforce's top executives are rejected by shareholders and investors, despite backing from the board
Salesforce To Axe more Than 10,000 Staff
More bad news for Salesforce staffers, as Marc Benioff confirms firm will again axe employees, this time 10 percent of workforce
Salesforce Acquires Slack For $28 Billion For Workforce Collaboration
As the enterprise world adjusts to remote working, Salesforce pay $27.7 billion to acquire Slack for enhanced workplace collaboration
Salesforce Buys Deep Learning Startup MetaMind
MetaMind's services will shut down June 4 as Benioff gobbles up deep learning technology to boost Salesforce services with artificial intelligence
Salesforce’s Benioff Claims SAP ‘Is Scared’
Spurned wrath? Marc Benioff blasts SAP CEO claiming he rebuffed a genuine partnership offer
Is Microsoft About To Bid For Salesforce?
Microsoft joins hunt for Salesforce.com, in what would be a remarkable turnaround in their relationship
Salesforce Receives Takeover Approach
Is Oracle the unnamed suitor that has reportedly made a takeover approach to Salesforce?
Microsoft And Salesforce Settle Feud With Partnership Deal
The two companies put aside their differences and agree to bring Salesforce's apps to Microsoft's Office and Windows OS
Salesforce Touts Mobile Business App As Sales Rise
Salesforce.com posts higher revenues as it touts a mobile app that it believes will allow users to control their businesses
Salesforce Beats Expectations And Raises Forecast
Salesforce has pleased Wall Street by beating its expectations and raising its forecast for the current quarter
Oracle And Salesforce End Feud With Cloud Convergence
Nine-year deal signed - some sceptical the Ellison and Benioff love affair won't last so long
Microsoft Expected To Offer Oracle 12c On Azure Cloud
Steve Ballmer has an announcement with Oracle today: will Oracle 12c go on Microsoft's Azure?
Salesforce Results Disappoint But Revenue Still Climbing Towards $1bn
Losses grow but Benioff thinks the company is going to hit $1bn revenue a quarter soon
Salesforce Expects To Cross $3bn Threshold This Year
Salesforce.com has beaten Wall Street's expectations for its third quarter and expects to crack the $3bn mark this year
Salesforce Cuts Jobs After Radian6 And Buddy Media Mergers
Buddy Media and Radian6 mergers lead to job cuts at Salesforce
Benioff: Windows 8 Marks End Of Windows
Windows 8 will mark the point at which enterprises begin to move on from the Windows platform, according to Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com UK Data Centre In Doubt For 2012
Salesforce.com tells TechWeekEurope no date has been set and it is unsure whether the data centre will materialise this year
Dreamforce 2012: Is Benioff Right To Follow Facebook In All-Social Strategy?
Analysis: Benioff tells TechWeekEurope he loves Facebook but is he right in borrowing from a firm that has had a difficult year after its troubled IPO?
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce Adds Social Identity And Mobile App Platform
Salesforce Platform gets socially-oriented SSO and a whole new way to develop mobile apps
Salesforce.com Drops Bid To Trademark ‘Social Enterprise’
Benioff sees the error of his ways
Cisco Gets Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff On Board
Benioff is brought in to help Cisco push forward with its transformation
Salesforce’s Benioff Slates Government Cloud Efforts
Salesforce CEO told a conference in London that the UK government's cloud strategy is not up to scratch
Marc Benioff: This Is The Era Of Cloud 2
Salesforce.com's founder and CEO saw the cloud coming before anyone even named it. Now Cloud 2 is here and Cloud 3 is on the horizon
Benioff’s Salesforce Goes Social With Service Cloud 3
Salesforce is looking to utilise social networking platforms with the introduction of Service Cloud 3
Salesforce Leaps Onto Cloud 2 As Its New Platform
At Dreamforce, Marc Benioff has been hailing the dawn of a new era for SaaS and new tools to match
Salesforce’s Benioff Calls Zuckerberg ‘Next Bill Gates’
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used his Gartner conference keynote to talk cloud evolution, Mark Zuckerberg, and his recent Oracle spat
Salesforce Upgrades Colloboration Tool With Chatter 2
Salesforce.com has revealed the next version of its Facebook-like Chatter collaboration platform, known as Chatter 2
Salesforce and VMware Open Cloud Java Platform
Salesforce.com and VMware have teamed up to offer the cloud to Java developers