Concur unveils Trip Maximizer to help sales professionals find prospects

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Redmond-based Concur is best known for helping business travelers manage travel and entertainment expenses.  Now, with the addition of Trip Maximizer, the company is looking to go a step further, helping sales professionals locate and communicate with clients. Here’s how the new Trip Maximizer service works: The user inputs their initial travel plans into the Salesforce… Read More…

From Facebook to Zynga: A guide to the tech giants establishing Seattle outposts

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Another day, another tech giant sets up shop in Seattle. Perhaps no story over the past 24 months has shaped the technology community in Seattle as much as the arrival of the powerhouses of tech. Drawn to the region by a stable of anchor tenants like Amazon.com, Expedia and Microsoft and enticed by top-notch computer… Read More…

What do M&A executives at Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce really want?

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Reporting from TechNW:  If you’re looking to sell your startup company to Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Salesforce.com, you might be better off taking a low-key, subtle approach rather than trying to knock down the front door. After all, as Ryan Aytay, vice president of corporate development at Salesforce.com likes to say, you don’t typically walk… Read More…

Microsoft offers cash to Oracle, SAP and Salesforce customers

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Microsoft this morning made a new overture to customers of Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAP — offering $150 in cash per user to companies that switch to Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM Online from the competing customer-relationship management services. The company made the offer on the eve of Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Microsoft issued an open letter… Read More…

Microsoft vs. everybody else: The quotable Kevin Turner

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Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, was in rare form Wednesday at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles — delivering zinger after zinger about Microsoft’s rivals, including Google, Salesforce.com, VMware, Apple and others. We’ve collected a few of the best quotes below, gleaned from the webcast and the transcript. Here’s an audio clip of… Read More…