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• Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud

  BNET - 2009-11-20

  BMC Software and CA have both teamed up with Salesforce.com to produce applications that are built and run on the latter's Force.com platform. The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week, where BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp and CA CEO John Swainson both joined...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., BMC Software Inc.

• Salesforce Earnings: The Price of Perfection

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-19

  Zachary Scheidt submits: What happens when investors expect perfection from the companies they are invested in? Chances are, those expectations will eventually be disappointed and investors can realize that the level of confidence is unrealistic. This appears to be the case with Salesforce.com CRM which traded...

  Tags: Software, Zachary Scheidt, Salesforce.com Inc.

• Salesforce.com plans social networking for business

  BNET - 2009-11-19

  Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of consumer technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to the business world. Salesforce Chatter, pencilled in for a launch in the second quarter of 2010, allows users to create profiles and real-time news feeds to help them to...

  Tags: user, Facebook, Twitter Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.

• Salesforce.com`s Chatter to Bring Facebook Look, Twitter Feeds to Business Users

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Salesforce.com`s Chatter to Bring Facebook Look, Twitter Feeds to Business Users( Page 1 of 2 )Salesforce.com demonstrated a new work group collaboration tool dubbed "Chatter" as the highlight of opening keynote of its annual Dreamforce user conference Nov. 18 at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center. Chatter is designed with a...

  Tags: Facebook, CRM, Twitter Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., Collaboration

• Salesforce Jumps Into Collaboration Software With Chatter

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Posted by: Aaron Ricadela on November 18 Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff has never been shy about borrowing a bit of other companies' mojo. On Nov, 18, he introduced the software company's latest product, a business collaboration tool that takes pages from the playbooks of Facebook and Twitter. Salesforce will...

  Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff

• Microsoft pioneers cloud framework as a service

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  "Who would have imagined the explosion of interest in the cloud?" asked Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, at the opening of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference this week in Los Angeles. Well, Ozzie foresaw it and he listened to developers on how to best position his company. Microsoft has been...

  Tags: service, Microsoft Corp., Developer, framework, Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Azure, Ray Ozzie

• Stocks Dip as Tech Outlook and Housing Take Toll

  Reuters - 2009-11-18

  By Edward KrudyNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks broke three days of gains on Wednesday following worrisome outlooks from two major software makers and a surprising drop in home construction last month.But stocks sharply cut the session's losses just before the closing bell as many investors pointed to a strong...

  Tags: Microsoft Outlook, NYSE Euronext, Recovery, Financial, Stock, Equity, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Autodesk Inc., Bank of America Corp., Chevron Corp., Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Pulte Homes Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.

• Salesforce Adds Enterprise Social Networking

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Wednesday, at the company's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com introduced Salesforce Chatter, designed to let Salesforce customers bring Facebook- and Twitter-type capabilities to applications they use running on the Force.com cloud computing platform. Facebook and Twitter are "genius" he said, proving that "once again we've...

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.

• Salesforce's "Facebook for the Enterprise"

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Salesforce.com has introduced a new enterprise collaboration application called Salesforce Chatter. A representative for the company bills it as a "Facebook for the Enterprise.""Content, applications and people will now have profiles, feeds and groups, enabling them to be deeply connected," she tells WebProNews. "In addition, developers will now be able...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc.

• Salesforce.com Launches Social Enterprise Application at Dreamforce

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Salesforce.com launched a social enterprise application here at Dreamforce today that will allow companies to create their own private, social networks and integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social applications. Dubbed Salesforce Chatter , the application serves as a secure enterprise collaboration application and...

  Tags: application, Facebook, social networking, Twitter Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.