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Super Techies: Marc Benioff
News In this Super Techies interview, Marc Benioff talks with CNET News.com's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills...
[March 28, 2008, 13:43]
Salesforce.com chief emerges from quiet zone
News Reporters once could count on Marc Benioff as a veritable rent-a-quote machine. After The New York Times interview that got you into trouble with the SEC, can we expect a more subdued, restrained Marc Benioff from now on?
[July 23, 2004, 11:00]
Salesforce chief pans competitors' cloud efforts
News Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff has accused SAP of failing to understand cloud computing, and attacked Microsoft's internet-based operating system, Azure. Speaking at Salesforce's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, Benioff...
[November 5, 2008, 6:30]
Salesforce chief hails customisation capability
News Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff trumpeted the company's Apex technology as the next step in customisation of its otherwise generic Web-based business services. You can harass us, send us email and lobby us," Benioff said.
[October 10, 2006, 9:45]
SAP, Salesforce debate future of hosted apps
News At a Churchill Club event at the Computer History Museum in San Jose, California, on 3 April, Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of SAP, and Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, debate the future of enterprise...
[April 14, 2008, 16:15]
Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Once focused on CRM, Salesforce.com now styles itself as the "success on demand" company, and president and chief executive Marc Benioff believes that with this broad aim he is now ready to "change the consciousness of the industry".
[May 8, 2008, 17:39]
Salesforce chief launches Force.com Sites
News At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com, announces the company's latest venture. Along with Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and executive vice president of technology, Benioff...
[November 4, 2008, 13:46]
Salesforce to ape iTunes and eBay
News Customer information systems may not be a very sexy topic, but Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff is trying to spice it up a bit with a new service he's comparing to both eBay and Apple's iTunes Music Store.
[September 13, 2005, 9:20]
Salesforce debuts software for financial advisers
News The company's Wealth Management Edition was unveiled by chairman and chief executive Marc Benioff, accompanied by chief marketing officer George Hu, at a presentation at the Hotel Pierre in midtown Manhattan.
[February 28, 2007, 8:35]
Salesforce.com puts Siebel in CRM crosshairs
News The company, founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, will release the Enterprise Edition, a set of customer relationship management (CRM) applications aimed at Fortune 500 companies. The ability to integrate and custom-tailor the...
[February 15, 2002, 10:32]
Salesforce.com expands poaching plan
News In an email sent to his staff last week, Salesforce.com chairman and chief executive Marc Benioff outlined a plan to poach talent from Benioff said in the email: "Following the proposed acquisition of
[October 4, 2005, 9:20]
PeopleSoft 'like a sinking barge' - Salesforce.com chief
News At the Salesforce.com user and developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, chief executive Marc Benioff told ZDNet UK that rival PeopleSoft's decision to acquire J.D. Benioff said his own firm is growing rapidly, with Salesforce.com expecting...
[November 12, 2003, 12:04]
Salesforce.com releases CRM software update
News The updated release, called S3, introduces several new features, including a system for storing and sharing business documents, such as contracts and marketing material, said Marc Benioff, chief executive of the San Francisco software company.
[June 23, 2003, 12:48]
Web 2.0-style mashups to invade business
News The work done by these companies in terms of hosted applications and "mashup" combinations of applications is now being taken up by business users, according to Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of on-demand customer relationship...
[September 14, 2006, 17:15]
Salesforce.com moves into custom application hosting
News In his opening keynote address, Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff said sforce 2.0 was designed for companies that wanted to customise and integrate Salesforce.com with their internal systems.
[November 11, 2003, 15:30]
Salesforce.com support goes on-demand
News This is a major new push for us," said Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's chief executive. While Benioff acknowledges the concepts of customer service and support with call centres and help desks are not new, he said few companies put those tasks in an...
[September 30, 2004, 9:10]
Salesforce acquires Google AdWords service
News Salesforce.com chief executive and chairman Marc Benioff and Kieden co-founder Kraig Swensrud detailed the purchase at a press and customer event in Boston on Monday. The problem.is trying to get information from Google AdWords to knowing who the...
[August 22, 2006, 10:00]
NetSuite's CRM switchers are sign of maturing market
News And while NetSuite is trumpeting these wins as "one in the eye" for Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff, the announcement is good news for the on-demand market as a whole, according to pundits.
[July 25, 2006, 17:30]
Salesforce.com shares debut strongly
News On hand to ring the opening bell for the stock exchange was Marc Benioff, Salesforce's chief executive. For Benioff, the moment capped a lengthy process to take his company public, after the Securities and Exchange Commission had forced a pair of...
[June 23, 2004, 15:50]
Salesforce.com delays IPO
News Salesforce.com chairman, CEO and founder Marc Benioff were profiled in a lengthy New York Times article on 9 May, covering Benioff's background, the birth of his company and his charitable work. In the article, Benioff side-stepped questions...
[May 18, 2004, 8:25]
