Salesforce Shares Crash After Earnings Disappoint

Many analysts — but not all — call it a buying opportunity.
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Salesforce to Raise $1 Billion in Debt to Fund Acquisitions

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is about to go shopping for acquisitions, and he’ll have $1 billion to spend. The company just announced a plan to raise its debt by issuing convertible notes due in 2018. Salesforce says it will use the proceeds to fund “possible acquisitions of, or investments in, complementary businesses, services or technologies, working capital and capital expenditures.”

Salesforce Soundly Beats Earnings Expectations for Q4

Closing out a $3 billion year.
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Tech Loves Obama, and Obama Loves Tech: The Campaign Roundtables

In the lead-up to his reelection, Barack Obama set up a series of unusually intimate events to talk tech.
Barack Obama at a roundtable discussion with techies including Sean Parker, Shervin Pishevar and Tom Katis. (Photo courtesy Tom Katis.)

Meet the New Salesforce.com, All About Service

The social enterprise is so 2012.
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Office for iPad, HBO Comes to AirPlay, Bill Gates on Reddit and More: The AllThingsD Week in Review 2/10/13 – 2/16/13

The Top 10 stories of the week, in one convenient serving.
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Salesforce CEO Benioff Invites Laid Off Yammer Employees to Work for Him

Be kind to frenemies. They may offer you a job.
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Salesforce to Seek Four-for-One Stock Split

The company plans to put the proposal up for shareholder approval.
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Seven More Questions for Okta CEO Todd McKinnon

The vision, McKinnon says, has always been about providing companies with a single identity layer for all the applications they use.
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Salesforce May Go Shopping in Response to Oracle Deal

Oracle’s purchase of Eloqua may spur Salesforce.com to look for acquisitions to help build its own “marketing cloud” offering.
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