Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has been named to Cisco’s board of directors, Cisco announced Thursday. “Marc has changed the face …

Salesforce.com hit again by performance issues
Salesforce.com was hit by another in a string of performance problems yesterday, with the issues this time centered on its …

Salesforce.com to acquire shared-browsing startup GoInstant
Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com said yesterday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canadian shared-browsing technology startup …

Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media in $689 million deal
Salesforce.com is acquiring social media marketing firm Buddy Media in a US$689 million cash and stock deal, the companies announced …

Salesforce.com's Desk.com service adding Arabic support
Salesforce.com’s Desk.com service is adding multilingual support to the cloud-based help-desk software, the company said. Beginning on June 6, Desk.com …

Intel launches cloud-based single sign-on service
Intel launched a cloud-based password management service yesterday that has been tightly integrated with Salesforce.com to give its customers an …

Mark Hurd: Oracle’s only objective is to help customers
Oracle president Mark Hurd has pledged to “make it easier” for customers to do business with the company. The pledge …

Facebook's open-source data centre project gains strength
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …

Salesforce.com acquires collaboration tool company Stypi
Salesforce.com has acquired real-time online collaboration platform company Stypi, it announced yesterday. The financial terms of the deal were not …