software as a service

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.

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.

Meet the VCs: Accel Partners' Kevin Efrusy

Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2010 at 9:17 am PT

BoomTown runs into venture capitalists all the time in Silicon Valley and elsewhere and usually tries to run the other way. Not so last week, when I enjoyed a lovely lunch and chat with Accel Partners’ Kevin Efrusy, the former entrepreneur and techie who is making a lot of investments in both the social consumer space and the enterprise arena. Here’s the video.

Yammer Grabs $10 Million More in Funding

Kara Swisher in News on February 2, 2010 at 9:24 pm PT

Yammer, the enterprise equivalent of Twitter, said it had grabbed another $10 million in financing, after raising $5 million a year ago. But the question for the San Francisco-based microblogging service for businesses and closed groups is: “What are you working on?” Emergence Capital took the lead in the Series B round for Yammer, along with ubiquitous Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway and previous investors.

Cisco’s New Corporate Motto: Shop Till You Drop

John Paczkowski in News on November 3, 2009 at 6:29 am PT

Cisco’s fall acquisition binge continues unabated. Late Monday, the company announced plans to buy the set-top box business of China’s DVN Holdings for up to $44.5 million. This after spending $3 billion on videoconferencing system maker Tandberg, wireless infrastructure outfit Starent Networks and software-as-a-service security vendor ScanSafe–all in quick succession.