software as a service

Netsuite Turns Commerce Into a Cloud Service

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 15 at 3:30 pm PT

To the growing list of things that can be sold “as-a-service” you can now add commerce. And create a new acronym: CaaS.

Intuit Just Bought What for $424 Million? Demandforce, That’s What.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 27 at 12:14 pm PT

The newest business unit at Intuit: A software-as-a-service player devoted to small-business marketing that deliberately flew under the radar.

Cloud-Paging Start-Up Numecent Emerges From Stealth, Spins Off Gaming Unit Approxy (Video)

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 5 at 8:59 am PT

Numecent takes the idea of cloud computing to a logical, and incredibly cool, extreme.

Insight Leads $165 Million Round in Cloud-Based Energy Database Company Drilling Info

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 5 at 6:05 am PT

As the U.S. gets closer to energy independence, the investment around oil and gas exploration and the technology that helps get it done, are, well, gushing.

Oracle Acquires Taleo for $1.9 Billion

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 9 at 5:32 am PT

In the wake of last year’s SAP-SuccessFactors deal, Taleo was said to be the next company to be acquired. Funny how these things work out.

SAP Names New Marketing VP, One With a History

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13 at 5:59 am PT

SAP’s new senior vice president for marketing was once the central figure in a full-blown ad-industry scandal.

2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 8, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson is back in New York with his annual predictions for the world of tech in 2012.

Former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman Gets His Old Band Back Together

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 17, 2011 at 6:40 am PT

The reunited Data Domain gang is tuning up for an IPO with ServiceNow, a fast-growing, cloud-based help-desk play.

Dell’s Big Cloud Acquisition: Boomi

John Paczkowski in News on November 2, 2010 at 9:05 am PT

At an event in Hong Kong this morning, Dell CEO Michael Dell said the company was readying an acquisition in the cloud-computing sector. The Street was quick to speculate that Dell was looking at Rackspace or Brocade. Turned out it wasn’t either of them. Moments ago Dell said it will acquire software-as-a-service outfit Boomi.

Voices

Almost Famous: David Maher Roberts of The Filter

Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT

This week we caught up with the globe-trotting David Maher Roberts, CEO of The Filter, a media recommendation engine founded by music legend Peter Gabriel. David commutes between the United Kingdom where he lives and the United States, where he works. We found him during a stop in Texas, appropriately via Skype.