The Cloud Company: People or Money?
The cloud-based enterprise software companies are increasingly getting into each other's territory, blurring the once-clear distinctions between products and services, online and offline, or sales and...
View ArticleWith New Antipoverty Initiative, Salesforce C.E.O. Puts Silicon Valley on Spot
Many have heard of the backlash against the tech industry in San Francisco. Now one executive is trying to convince his peers that charity should come with profits.
View ArticleNew Effort Gives Tech Workers Additional Way to Donate to Charity
RaisedBy.Us, created by two New York tech executives, will give tech workers an opportunity to give a portion of their paycheck to a charity of their choice.
View ArticleSalesforce Takes Its Cloud Model to Health Care
Salesforce and Philips are jointly announcing what they call an "open cloud-based, health care platform," with an initial focus on managing chronic ailments.
View ArticleAirbnb Expands Into Business Travel
Airbnb introduced a new business travel initiative on Monday, expanding beyond the vacation and couch-surfing crowds the company has traditionally focused on.
View ArticleSalesforce Boss Tips His Hand on Company’s Big News
Maybe the chief executive of Salesforce did himself a favor when he gave away one of his big surprises for an upcoming show. His data analysis cloud for the masses is likely one of many, with more on...
View ArticleSalesforce Makes Its Big Data Move
Salesforce kicked off its annual conference with a product aimed at developers who want to build visualization tools for sales and marketing people. That's probably a big and underserved market.
View ArticleTech Executives Pressure Indiana After Passage of Controversial Law
An industry with a long history of supporting gay rights is starting to speak out against a new Indiana law that gives legal cover to people who refuse to do business with same-sex couples.
View ArticleDaily Report: Tech Leaders Come Together to Oppose Indiana Law
In an industry that avoids controversy, the heads of several prominent companies, including Apple and Salesforce.com, have chosen to pick a battle.
View ArticleTech Leaders Call for Anti-Discrimination Laws to Protect Gays in all 50 States
More than three dozen chief executives and other senior Silicon Valley leaders issued a joint statement asking all state legislatures to add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes...
View ArticleDaily Report: The Stock Market Carnage Cometh for Tech
As stocks slumped on Thursday, some technology companies took particularly bad hits, both during regular trading hours and even afterward.
View ArticleSalesforce Plans to Give Customers Amazon-Type Analytics
A well-known programmer says he's building advanced data analysis that thousands of companies could use on the cloud-computing platform provided by Salesforce.com.
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