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  • Acquisitions

    Salesforce.com buys InStranet to make call centers suck less

    By Nicholas Carlson, 10:00 AM on Wed Aug 20 2008, 757 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    Salesforce.com spent $31.5 million on August 4 to acquire San Francisco-based call center software company InStranet. It's Salesforce.com's largest acquisition ever. Careful with the champagne, though.

    InStranet went through its third round of funding way back in 2001, when it raised $14.7 million at a $50 million valuation in a round joined by Benchmark Capital. So it's not a huge exit. Then again, at least it's an exit. Salesforce.com will also report its second quarter earnings today. Analysts expect $260.56 million in revenues for a 47.6 percent year over year growth.

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    5 tech companies getting soaked by Wall Street's meltdown

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    Mortgage meltdown boosts Salesforce.com

    One of the oddest side effects of the credit crunch, which most recently brought about the nationalization of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:

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