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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Fast-Growing Cloud Management Start-Up Okta Hires Two New VPs

Customers are up threefold and end users are up by a factor of six. Time to put some more talent on the executive team? Yes.
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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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Exclusive: Former Skype Exec Christopher Dean Joins Urban Airship to Oversee the Revenue Side

In an interview, Dean talks about his new gig at the growing push-notification service provider, and reflects on Skype’s prospects now that it is in the hands of Microsoft.
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Oracle’s Lousy Quarter Takes Many Other Stocks Down

By missing its sales forecasts by nearly a half-billion dollars, Oracle shares are diving and taking many other enterprise IT stocks along for the ride.
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Salesforce Gets Into the HR Cloud With Rypple Acquisition

Marking the third acquisition of a cloud software firm since October, Salesforce grabs Rypple and says it will rename it Successforce. Sound familiar? It should.
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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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Seven Questions for Mike Gregoire, CEO of Taleo

In the wake of SAP’s $3.4 billion deal to acquire SuccessFactors, rival Taleo is suddenly the company everyone is talking about.
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After SAP-SuccessFactors Deal, the Cloud Is a Different Place

Mainstream enterprise software companies like SAP and Oracle have finally acknowledged that the shift to the cloud is real.
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