Tableau Software and Marketo Fire Up IPO Action Today

Many more to come.
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Box’s Aaron Levie and Jive’s Tony Zingale Talk About Teaming Up

The enemy of my frenemy is my ….
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Former Yahoo Security Head Somaini Lands at Cloud Startup Box

One of three high-profile hires for the IPO-bound startup.
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Seven Questions for Workday CEO and Greylock Partner Aneel Bhusri

Catching up with one of Silicon Valley’s busiest people.
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ForgeRock, an Identity Manager, Lands $15 Million Series B

Who knew keeping track of sign-in credentials was such a big business?
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MuleSoft, the Cloud’s Super Middleman, Lands $37 Million From NEA

Also investing: Salesforce.com.
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Seven Questions for the Man Shaking Up HP’s Operations, John Hinshaw

Biggest cloud customer ever.
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News Byte

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.”

Tracx, Social Media’s Big-Data Player, Lands $3.5 Million From Flybridge Capital

Pivoting from listening to social media to doing something about it.
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Handshakez, Measuring Customer Engagement, Lands $3.6M Series A

How warm is your relationship with that customer, really?
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Salesforce Soundly Beats Earnings Expectations for Q4

Meet the New Salesforce.com, All About Service

Salesforce CEO Benioff Invites Laid Off Yammer Employees to Work for Him

Salesforce Just Made Another Quiet Acquisition

Don’t Look Now, but Box’s Last Funding Round Just Got Bigger

Microsoft Teams Up With Parature to Enhance Customer Service in Dynamics

Salesforce to Seek Four-for-One Stock Split

Despite Strong HANA Launch, SAP Sales Come Up Short

Seven More Questions for SAP’s Co-CEO Bill McDermott

Enterprise Software and Cloud Fared Better Than Hardware in Q4 Survey

Seven More Questions for Okta CEO Todd McKinnon

Salesforce May Go Shopping in Response to Oracle Deal

Salesforce Unveils New Ways to Motivate

CipherCloud Lands $30 Million From Andreessen Horowitz

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Just Got a Raise