At TechCrunch Disrupt SF today, Mike Arrington talked to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff about the future going forward for Salesforce, and how the company is taking on Asana, Box and Okta, and why the company didn’t end up buying Yammer. The CEO also talked about how he thinks Google has “squandered its enterprise opportunity.” In […]
Posted on September 16th, 2012 by admin
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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said on stage today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 that Yammer should not have sold to Microsoft and that he passed on buying them due to the conflicts with Chatter — its own activity stream product. “You can do so much more when you are independent,” Benioff said. “They still have […]
Posted on September 16th, 2012 by admin
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Salesforce.com is a major force in the CRM space (it even managed to nab CRM as its stock ticker when it went public on the NYSE) for the trailblazing they have done in taking enterprise services into the cloud. It’s also made a big effort to acquire new services to incorporate them into its platform […]
Posted on September 15th, 2012 by admin
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A big advance today for Huddle, the enterprise cloud collaboration platform: the company has announced that it is developing a version of its platform for two federal U.S. government organizations, the Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. These are the first U.S. deals of their kind for the […]
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Intel will not support Linux in its upcoming chip for laptops and tablets. That leaves Windows 8 as the only operating system that will run on the Clover Trail Atom chip. To be clear, Linux can run on Clover Trail because it is an x86 chip. But it’s unlikely any device maker will want to […]
Posted on September 14th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding in Japan through the opening of a new availability zone. The move means that AWS will most likely be adding more data centers to keep up with the steady demand it has had since it first began offering its service in Tokyo 18 months ago. AWS breaks its regions […]
Posted on September 14th, 2012 by admin
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Ubuntu Linux, which started with the tagline “Linux for human beings,” was originally an easy-to-use Linux distribution for desktop users. Canonical picked what they considered to be the best of breed applications from the many thousands available in the Debian Linux distribution, put on a healthy dose of polish, and released their own version. They […]
Posted on September 14th, 2012 by admin
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In a discussion on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today, Sequoia Capital’s Jim Goetz said it is shocking that more startups are not focused on the enterprise. It’s the notion of reinventing the IT stack that holds such opportunity, Goetz said. And it’s an opportunity for everyone in the Disrupt audience. Companies like […]
Posted on September 13th, 2012 by admin
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Pick1 has raised $1 million from private investors for its opinions database and automated market research platform that serves as an open graph for opinions. The investment is what the founders say represents a bridge round for future funding. It includes a $535,000 investment led by ChileGlobal Angels that brings the aggregated investment raised to […]
Posted on September 13th, 2012 by admin
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Alicanto, launching today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is bringing machine learning, data analytics and the concept of forming neighborhood business alliances to the small business market. Alicanto is entering one of the most difficult markets to tackle. The small business market is local, businesses are run by people who have little time for marketing. […]
Posted on September 12th, 2012 by admin
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