‘Broforce’: 7 startup CEOs now working (out) at Salesforce.com (gallery)

Salesforce, the enterprise software giant, has been on a buying spree, and in recent years, it has welcomed almost a dozen dashing founders and CEOs into its corporate sanctuary in San Francisco. Here are seven of them.

Businesses need to embrace the “social revolution,” says Salesforce’s Benioff

The social networking revolution is “bleeding into our society,” Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff said today, citing the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street as “key moments of transformation” for social networks.

Salesforce, a multi-billion-dollar sales-force automation provider, has obviously …

Salesforce HR tool combines social networking and employee reviews

Remember when your Facebook feed was dotted with achievements that your friends won by playing Farmville? Well, you’ll see something similar now with Salesforce’s new Rypple HR tool.

Rypple uses badges and achievements to praise employees for the work they’re …

Post-acquisition, SAP and SuccessFactors outline where marriage is headed

In what might be the most-jargon-filled press release ever, enterprise-software giant SAP announced Wednesday how it will incorporate and improve SuccessFactors’ enterprise cloud services, after completing its purchase of the company last week.

SAP agreed to acquire human capital-management (HCM) …

Rypple, hot off Salesforce acquisition, launches Android app for social management on-the-go

Just a month and half after agreeing to be acquired by Salesforce, social performance management service Rypple has launched a native Android app to make sure managers and employees can connect no matter where they are.

Rypple’s software helps managers …

Salesforce to acquire social enterprise player Rypple, re-name it ‘Successforce’

Cloud-based software giant Salesforce.com has agreed to buy performance management firm Rypple for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced today.

Rypple dubs itself as a “cloud-based social performance management company.” Basically, it provides software designed to help managers improve …