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acquisitions
Salesforce.com buys InStranet to make call centers suck less
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. More »
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Comment by ron_burgundy: Since when is Salesforce making anything suck less? more » | Other threads
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Tech Tyrants
The 10 most terrible tyrants of tech
Here's to the screaming ones. The chair-throwers. The death-threat makers. The imperious gazers. The ones who see things differently — and will stare you down until you do, too. They're not fond of rules, especially those outlined by the human-resources department on "treating your employees with respect." And they have no respect for conversational decibel levels. You can cower before them, hide from them, quote them behind their backs, or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they're so damn loud. They've worked at Google. Apple. Microsoft. AOL. They've ruled the industry — or they've failed, loudly. Below, we present you tech's 10 most tempestuous bosses — the ones who scream different. While some see them as sociopaths, Valleywag sees genius. More » -
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Comment by deathbychichi: It is impossible to cancel Salesforce.com. We have been autorenewed every six months and have cancelled/recancelled the service five... more » | Other threads
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nerdfight
Salesforce.com rival lashes out at Benioff & Co.
When I met him at a book-signing party earlier this week, BrightIdea.com CEO Matt Greeley was all smiles. Now I know why: He'd just hit "Send" on a scathing missive denouncing Salesforce.com for trampling on his company's turf. (The territory in question, thoroughly obscure, involves something called "innovation management," or, as Greeley puts it, tracking ideas like FedEx packages.) Greeley's rant is worth studying for its overwrought language. He calls the enemy "Salesfarce," says it has "gotten fat and happy," and is a "rotted shell of a business" which will fall apart with a "nudge." The full email, sent by a BrightIdea employee who writes that he'd "like to pee in [Salesforce.com's] coffee pot, and I'm not speaking metaphorically": More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by johnderby: oh my god...did the CEO of this company really send an all hands email where he referred to "Deferred Revenue"... more » | Other threads
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nerdfight
Software maker's ad cusses at Salesforce.com
"@#$% Salesforce.com — it's easy!" reads a new ad from Serena Software. What does that mean, exactly? Serena isn't exactly a competitor to Salesforce.com; it makes enterprise software tools that help companies manage their enterprise software. Boring upon boring — until you realize who signed off on the ad. That would be René Bonvanie, left. He's now Serena's head of marketing, formerly a top executive at Salesforce.com. Is Bonvanie funding a dig at ex-boss Marc Benioff through his advertising budget? Bad marketing, excellent theater.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Owen Thomas: @naisan: Well, that explanation makes as much sense as the ad itself. more » | Other threads
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marc benioff
In Google, Salesforce.com's CEO finds a new partner to spin
When a partnership like Google and Salesforce.com's gets announced so publicly, it's a safe bet that the message is meant for investors and rivals, not customers. Look at the substance of their new partnership: Salesforce.com for Google Apps amounts to adding a tab to link the two Web-based services. Salesforce.com helps companies organize their customer leads and sales; Google Apps offers simplified and hence limited Web versions of familiar office-productivity apps like Microsoft Word and Excel. Add 2 + 2, and you get 4, not 5, as Google and Salesforce would have you believe. More » -
online video
Despite recession talk, VCs find cash to fund Qik, Ustream.tv
Having turned down Microsoft's $50 million offer, live video site Ustream.tv today announced $11.1 million in venture capital. Yesterday, mobile video startup Qik announced it raised another $3 million from Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff, VC Arjun Gupta and entrepreneur George Garrick. If a recession is going to take your jobs, close the doors to rich payoffs, and kill your deals, the least it could do is knock live Robert Scoble andLoren Feldman broadcasts off the Internet. -
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Is Zoho's founder making Marc Benioff nervous?
When a magazine profile opens by informing me I've never heard of some guy, I usually assume it's for good reason, and stop reading there. Not so with Forbes writeup of Zoho's Sridhar Vembu, however. Vembu's company makes Zoho, a suite of online software. I had dismissed Zoho as yet another Web-based Microsoft Office clone. No one's going to pay for online word processing, when Word is cheap to begin with, and Google Docs is free. But Vembu has figured this much out. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by pepelicious: @Ted Dziuba: He's pretty good at the internets. Watch out. more » | Other threads
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rumormonger
Benioff pushing Salesforce on Oracle?
Salesforce.com representatives have quietly approached Oracle to see if it would buy the company for $75 a share, Tom Foremski reports. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison already owns a piece of Salesforce, but he's also an early investor in NetSuite, a rival service for online customer-relationship management. The offer, if true, would be a 47 percent premium over Salesforce.com's share price before this morning market opening. More »
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Comment by Princedudi: This story should worry salesforce.com customers big time. We all know the culture at ORACLE, and we all know it... more » | Other threads
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mine is bigger
Hawaii — Silicon Valley's Hamptons, minus the potato fields
Architectural Digest profiled the Hawaiian home of a Silicon Valley mogul in its November issue. A reader fingers Rick Fluegel, a former general partner with Matrix Partners. More »
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Comment by lucifugus: Tahoe is indeed a better Hamptons analogy for the Valley. They don't call it "Squallywood" for nothing. The old money types... more » | Other threads
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marc benioff
After selling off $8.9 million worth of shares this month, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff retains a mere $637 million worth of holdings in his company. Did we mention that he is much, much richer than you are? [Docu-Drama]
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Comment by hmorton: The 150$K for the quad bipass surgey shouldn't be a problem then... more » | Other threads
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quotable
Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff, giddy with new-found profits, trashes Microsoft's competing offering, saying it "promises to do for on-demand [software] what Zune has done for media players." Ouch, that's low. [MarketWatch] -
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Marc Benioff, when not threatening Valley reporters, bribes them with sweet, sweet chocolate. Caroline McCarthy describes her reaction to receiving the latest Salesforce.com swag package. [Webware] -
features
The eruptors: 11 companies. 11 puff pieces.
Hey, nothing against the eleven corporate leaders profiled in Business 2.0 Magazine's latest feature, "The Disruptors." (Except you, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. Nobody likes you.) It's just that "glory stories" like this make us giggle, because by definition they have to play down the arguments against their subjects. And B2 added Wired-worthy hero shots like the one shown here. So here's a guide to the most egregious idolatry: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by commish: When Clearwire came to Eugene, OR, tons of peolple got on board. Being an liberal, anti-corporation town, everyone wanted... more » | Other threads
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