Netsuite Turns Commerce Into a Cloud Service

To the growing list of things that can be sold “as-a-service” you can now add commerce. And create a new acronym: CaaS.
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IBM’s Pick of SugarCRM Creates More Rivals for Oracle

Much has been made of the rivalry between Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. in cloud computing. But last week a venture-backed start-up secured one of the richest contracts in business for software to manage sales, marketing and customer relationships.

SugarCRM Raises $33 Million in Round Led by NEA

The company that positions itself as an alternative to Salesforce.com saw its sales grow by 67 percent last year.
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Don’t Look Now but Salesforce Stock Is in the Clouds

Why is Marc Benioff smiling today? Sales and billings are up.
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Salesforce.com Likes Facebook, Loves Big Deals Ahead of Earnings Report

Big deals with Facebook and in the finance industry ahead of Salesforce.com’s earnings report are spurring its shares upward today. The trouble will be in setting expectations for next quarter.
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Newly Public Jive Beats the Street

Jive’s first quarter as a public company comes out pretty good.
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BMO: Salesforce’s Quarter Should Be Better Than the Last One

Salesforce.com may make up for the miss on billings that caused shareholders to sell off its stock last quarter.
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Microsoft Bringing Its CRM App to iPhone, iPad and Android

Redmond is once again cranking out versions of its software for rivals’ mobile platforms, this time bringing its Dynamics CRM product to a bunch of mobile operating systems.
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Another Sunny Day for Cloud Company NetSuite

Cloud software player Netsuite’s earnings beat the Street, and its shares are surging.
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Marc Benioff Brings His Social Cloud Message to New York

The Salesforce.com CEO will give a keynote speech in New York later this morning. Expect him to revisit his favorite subject, the social enterprise, and a new one, the social marketing cloud.
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Indian Start-Up Turns Texts Into Dollars

Exclusive: Yahoo CIO Kirwan Bids Adieu