Hot Analytics Start-Up Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led by Andreessen Horowitz

All the start-ups I talk to these days seem to be using Mixpanel analytics.
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Salesforce Shows Off Its Rypple Acquisition, Analysts Applaud

Also, CEO Marc Benioff showcases Hewlett-Packard as Salesforce’s newest big customer, but it’s not quite as big a deal as you might think.
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Yammer Lands $85 Million Funding Round From Draper Fisher Jurvetson

The rumors are true. But, boy, were they ever off on the numbers.
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Huh? After Spending $278 Million, Salesforce.com Backs Out of San Francisco Campus.

What’s behind Saleforce’s decision to pull back from developing a new corporate campus in San Francisco? Maybe it has to do with ballooning operational expenses?
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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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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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Fusion-io Shares Whacked, but the Flash Madness Club Has a New Member

Fusion-io investors freak out over tighter margins. But never mind that. Fusion has a new customer: Salesforce.com
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Former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com

The cloud-evangelizing former U.S. CIO takes a job running emerging markets for Salesforce.com.
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Yammer Poaches Another VP From Salesforce.com

Once is a fluke, but two in as many months begins to look like a pattern.
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