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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 To Splash $2.5bn On ExactTarget
Marc Benioff's cloud giant makes its most costly acquisition to date
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 Acquires Clipboard For More Social Skills
Pinterest rival Clipboard will be shut down next month
Salesforce: Stay Tuned For Our Imminent Big Data Push
Salesforce execs tell TechWeek the company has Big Data analytics tech coming soon
G-Cloud Chief Concerned Over ‘Restictive’ EU Cloud Ideas
G-Cloud lead Denise McDonagh concerned about Brussels' "old world thinking" on cloud computing
Salesforce Finally Pens UK Data Centre Deal
Salesforce wants to lure government G-Cloud crew with its Slough pad
Salesforce Hopes To Lure Developers With €5m Start-Up Challenge
Salesforce courts developers and start-ups with venture capital help
Salesforce Takes CRM Leadership From SAP
Poor Euro exchange lets Marc Benioff's Salesforce slap SAP
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
Dreamforce 2012: JP Rangaswami – I Hope Salesforce Stays A Start Up Forever
Salesforce is still a start-up and should remain so, chief scientist JP Rangaswami tells TechWeekEurope
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.com Launches Dropbox Enterprise Rival Chatterbox
Another Dropbox for business appears, but this time from one of the biggest cloud players in the world
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
Enterprise Social Networks – Reject The Me-Too Players
Business apps need social media, but it's more than just a Facebook Like button in your CRM system, says Rebert J Mullins
CRM Battle Escalates For Oracle, SAP, Salesforce
The fight for market share in the CRM sector is escalating, as the number of potential customers falls says IDC
Salesforce Adds Twitter Feeds To Radian6
Twitter force-feeds Salesforce customers with gallons of social stuff
Cloudforce: Salesforce Chatter Goes Real-Time
Salesforce.com gives its Chatter social network some real time chat
Cloudforce: Salesforce Launches 20 Apprenticeships
A few lucky NEETs could get two years work at a Salesforce customer
Jive Takes On Salesforce With Social CRM Software
Jive Software is squaring up to Salesforce.com after launching its own social CRM software product
Salesforce Launches Desk.com Social Support Tool
Salesforce.com is targeting SMBs with a cloud-based helpdesk dashboard that integrates Facebook and Twitter feeds
TechWeek Europe Readers Prefer Their Own Clouds
Our readers like cloud computing, but on their own terms, according to a series of polls on TechWeekEurope
Jive IPO Sets Stage for Social Cloud Collaboration Boom
Jive Software's initial public offering earlier this month opened some eyes for skeptics of social enterprise software. Expect major consolidation in the space to commence in 2012
Oracle, Salesforce Dominate CRM Market
According to analyst house IDC, Oracle and Salesforce.com dominated the CRM market during 2011
Salesforce Buys Rypple To Counter SuccessFactors
Salesforce.com has responded to SAP's bid for SuccessFactors with the cheaper acquisition of Rypple
Marc Benioff Still Loves Oracle And Microsoft Bating
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dislikes Oracle and Microsoft and cannot resist revealing his reasons