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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Translation Start-Up Cloudwords Debuts in Salesforce App Exchange

With so many companies going global, there’s lots of language translating going on. Cloudwords helps those in charge of that work keep track of it all.
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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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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to Investors: “Trust Me” (Video)

In the wake of earnings results that missed the expectations of analysts, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff took to the airwaves again to defend his company’s strategy.
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Salesforce Is Growing, But Slower Than Analysts Thought It Would

Salesforce is growing, but not fast enough for the expectations of Wall Street analysts. Its shares are getting whacked.
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A Bad Day for the Salesforce Kool-Aid (Video)

Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson questions Saleforce.com’s valuation, and the shares promptly fall.
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