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Salesforce adds features to help build communities and generate analytics

Customer-relationship management giant Salesforce today announced Lightning Customer Community, describing it as an extension of its Community Cloud service that lets… Read More

Salesforce launches App Cloud Mobile, aiming to accelerate iOS and Android app development

Salesforce today released App Cloud Mobile, a no-cost addition to its software arsenal that the company says integrates previously separate elements for… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Salesforce expanding in India in response to rising cloud demand

Part of the $3 billion that Amazon earlier this week pledged to invest in India will go toward building an AWS data… Read More

Salesforce debuts new Lightning features, promises $50M in developer incentives

Protection against unwanted data sharing, in-browser inspection and a command line code-review plug-in are among the features Salesforce plans to debut… Read More

Salesforce CTO Gary Flake departs 3 years after tech giant bought his startup

Gary Flake, who joined Salesforce in Seattle as CTO for search and data science after the CRM giant bought his… Read More

Salesforce agrees to pay $2.8B for cloud-commerce firm Demandware

Cloud-based customer-relations giant Salesforce agreed today to buy Demandware, a cloud commerce firm based in Burlington, Mass., for roughly $2.8… Read More

Salesforce expands customer support technology on the web, unifying experience across devices

Salesforce is expanding its Service Cloud platform to let companies offer web-based customer service and support comparable to what they provide inside smartphone apps —… Read More

Tech giants scale back on acquisitions — with the exception of Microsoft

Most of the heavyweights in tech pulled back from mergers and acquisitions in 2015, with one striking exception: Microsoft. Five of 8 tech giants decreased… Read More

Former Salesforce COO Andy MacMillan named CEO of Act-On Software, founder Raghu Raghavan shifts to CTO

Act-On Software has a new CEO, but the old CEO is still sticking around. The Beaverton, Ore.-based marketing automation company named Andy MacMillan… Read More

Salesforce to ‘go big’ in Seattle area, will double regional presence and consolidate in Bellevue

Salesforce has been growing its workforce around the Seattle region for years with a new hire here, and an acquisition there.… Read More

Salesforce.com reportedly looking at big expansion in Bellevue

Salesforce.com, the $50 billion cloud giant led by Marc Benioff, appears to be putting down a bigger stake in the… Read More

New era: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Salesforce conference, gives iPhone demo

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a keynote address at Saleforce’s annual Dreamforce conference here this evening, the latest… Read More

Old rivals Microsoft and Salesforce ‘double down’ on partnership with deeper integration

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft deepened its relationship with longtime cloud rival Salesforce on Wednesday, building on a previous partnership by adding new… Read More

This group plans to build a 62-mile wall to trap plastic in the Pacific

The Pacific Ocean has long been home to that huge plastic garbage patch, but one organization — with the help of… Read More

Microsoft and Salesforce were $15B apart in acquisition talks, report says

Microsoft was willing to pay as much as $55 billion to acquire Salesforce, but the talks between the companies fell apart… Read More

How Salesforce innovates: Cloud company is a ‘super early adopter’

Salesforce is one of the dominant players in the emerging cloud market, and the San Francisco-based company’s profile has been… Read More

Microsoft does not want to acquire Salesforce, report says

Microsoft may not be interested in acquiring Salesforce.com after all. Reuters cited two sources on Thursday who say the Redmond giant is not… Read More

Microsoft and Salesforce? Why an acquisition might just make sense

The report that Salesforce has been approached by a potential acquirer has stirred up a guessing game in the tech… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says we’ve hit the ‘sweet spot’ for cloud adoption

SAN FRANCISCO–Marc Benioff, the co-founder and outspoken CEO of cloud software giant Salesforce, thinks that cloud-based software adoption has hit… Read More

Tech leaders sign letter in protest of discriminatory laws against LGBT community

More tech leaders are joining the fight against new “religious freedoms” laws, which make it legal for business owners to refuse… Read More

Better than the Love Boat? Salesforce charters a cruise ship for Dreamforce

Conferences often take over their host cities, making it nearly impossible to score a decent hotel room. But this year,… Read More

Join George Takei and #BoycottIndiana on Twitter

Yesterday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a “religious freedom” law that would give businesses the right to refuse service to gay and… Read More

From Apple and Alibaba to Salesforce and Splunk: A guide to tech giants with outposts in Seattle

Home-grown tech giants such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, Expedia, T-Mobile, Zillow and Tableau have deep roots in Seattle — important companies… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Apple must remember Steve Jobs, but it’s doing well without him

SAN FRANCISCO – Steve Jobs left behind some big shoes to fill, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Apple is… Read More

New stats: Amazon and Salesforce are winning the $45B cloud services market

A report from IDC this morning says overall industry revenue from public cloud services — everything from basic storage to software as… Read More

Microsoft and Salesforce may join together in the cloud

Microsoft Azure could become more attractive to businesses that rely on Salesforce’s cloud-based customer management programs. The two companies are… Read More

Evernote, Salesforce CEOs: If you want work-life balance, work somewhere else

SAN FRANCISCO – If there’s one truism about Silicon Valley, it’s that work-life balance is hard to come by. At… Read More

Intellectual Ventures inks patent deal with Salesforce, its first cloud-computing pact

Intellectual Ventures today announced a patent licensing agreement with Salesforce.com —the Bellevue-based company’s first licensing customer in the area of cloud computing. The company… Read More

Concur unveils Trip Maximizer to help sales professionals find prospects

Redmond-based Concur is best known for helping business travelers manage travel and entertainment expenses.  Now, with the addition of Trip Maximizer,… Read More

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

Another day, another tech giant sets up shop in Seattle. Perhaps no story over the past 24 months has shaped… Read More

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