Posts Tagged ‘marc benioff

Marc Benioff regularly brings stars to San Francisco to jazz up his company’s annual conference. This week, the highlight was an elder statesman from the music industry who helped cover for a real elder statesman. Go to Source

Salesforce has announced that it has acquired Heroku, a popular cloud platform for Ruby web apps, for $212 million in cash. “The next era of cloud computing is social, mobile and real-time. I call it Cloud 2,” CEO Marc Benioff said in the company’s announcement. “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2, and Heroku is [...]

It’s only Wednesday, but it’s already been a huge week for Salesforce. The company is hosting its Dreamforce conference, and has already introduced a free version of its "Facebook for the Enterprise" Chatter product, and launched Database.com to go head to head in the Database space with Oracle.  Now, Salesforce has announced that it is [...]

Back in the summer, Salesforce announced the general availability of Salesforce Chatter, the company’s cloud-based enterprise "social collaboration" app and platform, which a representative for the company once called "Facebook for the Enterprise." In September, the company released Chatter Mobile, and announced Chatter 2, which includes a desktop app. Now, Salesforce has announced Chatter Free, [...]

This week a new photo sharing social network received a great deal of attention. It’s called Path and has a pretty impressive list of names backing it. These include Ashton Kutcher, Ron Conway, Kevin Rose, Keith Rabois, Dustin Moskovitz, Marc Benioff, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steve Anderson, Tim Draper, Joi Ito, Fadi Ghandour, Matt Cohler, Sam Lessin, [...]


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