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Salesforce adopts BT's Ribbit tech for CRM
News BT and Salesforce.com have teamed up to bring voice-to-text technology to CRM via the Ribbit internet-telephony platform. Ribbit for Salesforce allows sales reps to phone details of leads or meetings back to the office and automatically log them in...
[April 9, 2009, 8:23]
Salesforce.com moves into custom application hosting
News At its user and developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, Salesforce.com announced it has updated sforce -- an application development utility -- to enable its customers to develop their own applications, host them on Salesforce.com's...
[November 11, 2003, 15:30]
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. Apex is a Salesforce.com Java-like programming language and server...
[October 10, 2006, 9:45]
Salesforce acquires Google AdWords service
News Salesforce.com has acquired a small company that created an add-on to its hosted services for purchasing and managing Google-driven Web advertising campaigns. The acquisition, expected to be announced on Tuesday at a news conference in New York...
[August 22, 2006, 10:00]
Salesforce hits 500,000-user milestone
News CRM company Salesforce.com has reported good figures for the second quarter of 2006 that topped analysts' expectations, and revealed that its subscriber base has topped 500,000 for the first time. Revenue rose 64 percent to $118m (£62m) as...
[August 17, 2006, 13:35]
Salesforce.com to file for IPO
News Salesforce.com, one of the most talked-about software companies of recent times, has filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For a software company its message has ironically been one of 'anti...
[December 18, 2003, 15:55]
Salesforce to launch on-demand language and service
News Salesforce.com is planning to launch a new service for on-demand applications, marking its boldest step yet into direct competition with Oracle and Microsoft. Apex is the catalyst for bringing on-demand to every enterprise application," said Adam...
[October 9, 2006, 10:05]
Salesforce.com IPO 'imminent'
News Software maker Salesforce.com plans to offer its shares for public trading as early as March, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Salesforce said its shares will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol...
[February 19, 2004, 8:05]
Salesforce.com IPO delayed by accounting questions
News Federal regulators in the US have taken issue with a change in accounting methods at software maker Salesforce.com, prolonging their scrutiny of the company's plans to offer its stock for public trading.
[April 12, 2004, 10:45]
Salesforce launches iTunes podcasts
News True to its "no expense spared" approach to marketing, Salesforce.com has signed up to Apple’s iTunes service and is releasing a set of podcasts to trumpet the Salesforce message. Salesforce is making six podcasts dealing with best practice for the...
[April 7, 2006, 17:00]
Salesforce.com launches upgrade in Europe
News Salesforce.com has expanded the capabilities of its customer information system, adding programs designed to let companies keep tabs on customer contracts and product catalogues. A lingering concern about the Salesforce model is whether customers...
[April 14, 2004, 16:25]
Salesforce aims for $85m from IPO
News Salesforce.com plans to raise as much as $85m (£47.8m) in the initial public offering of its stock, according to a regulatory filing issued on Tuesday. Salesforce, which sells business applications software, will offer 10 million shares -- nearly...
[April 21, 2004, 8:35]
Salesforce.com pushes new model for AppExchange
News Online CRM vendor Salesforce.com has launched a $25 per user version of its application sharing system AppExchange that will be available for sale only to independent software vendors. The new strategy means software companies can sell their...
[May 25, 2006, 17:20]
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.com hit by third lawsuit
News A group of Salesforce.com shareholders has filed a class-action lawsuit against the online software provider, alleging that it misled investors to prop up its IPO price. It's the third shareholder suit to target Salesforce with essentially similar...
[August 2, 2004, 10:10]
Salesforce.com explains figures
News Fresh from its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange, Salesforce.com is once again talking up its business model - and talking down rivals in CRM such as Oracle, SAP and Siebel. In the face of a 27 per cent fall on Wednesday to a level nearer...
[July 23, 2004, 11:30]
Salesforce.com delays IPO
News Salesforce.com has delayed its high-profile initial public offering, which had been set for next week, according to sources. Salesforce.com chairman, CEO and founder Marc Benioff were profiled in a lengthy New York Times article on 9 May, covering...
[May 18, 2004, 8:25]
PeopleSoft 'like a sinking barge' - Salesforce.com chief
News The chief executive of Salesforce.com has said that while PeopleSoft can be likened to a 'sinking barge', his company expects to increase its subscriber numbers tenfold during the next four years. At the Salesforce.com user and developer conference...
[November 12, 2003, 12:04]
Salesforce lets resellers package up its cloud
News Salesforce.com is opening its Force.com cloud platform to all third-party channel resellers, from the local one-man IT shop to big systems integrators. Salesforce executives said that many small-business owners are still leery of the cloud, but do...
[August 27, 2009, 15:45]
Salesforce sees strong second quarter
News Salesforce.com has delivered strong second-quarter results and raised its financial targets for fiscal 2010. In a statement, Salesforce said it had added 3,900 net paying customers to hit a total of 63,200.
[August 21, 2009, 17:12]
