Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 10 at 8:29 am PT
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.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 7 at 5:06 pm PT
Jive’s first quarter as a public company comes out pretty good.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 1 at 7:38 am PT
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.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 16 at 9:42 am PT
The cloud-evangelizing former U.S. CIO takes a job running emerging markets for Salesforce.com.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 6 at 4:00 am PT
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.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 21, 2011 at 7:42 am PT
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.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 15, 2011 at 3:59 pm PT
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.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2011 at 5:59 am PT
Once is a fluke, but two in as many months begins to look like a pattern.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 7, 2011 at 6:29 am PT
In the wake of SAP’s $3.4 billion deal to acquire SuccessFactors, rival Taleo is suddenly the company everyone is talking about.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 5, 2011 at 5:29 am PT
Mainstream enterprise software companies like SAP and Oracle have finally acknowledged that the shift to the cloud is real.