Salesforce: The cloud is not an ‘all or nothing game’ for health care

Despite the obvious flexibility and cost savings of cloud technologies, health care providers are treading carefully -- largely because of security concerns.

Salesforce CEO pushes mobile & social service tools to spark a ‘trust revolution’

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff used his keynote in New York to push for a new level of communication between companies and customers.

Salesforce’s Service Cloud now helps solve customer issues inside your mobile apps

Enterprise cloud powerhouse Salesforce has added new tools to its Service Cloud that help address customer service problems while people are in mobile apps, making it possible to reach customers that are increasingly glued to phones and tablets instead of …

Salesforce’s Do.com teams up with Dropbox, Google Drive, & others to help your team ‘do more’

Salesforce-owned productivity app Do.com has partnered with big-name services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Harvest to improve its offerings and build an even-better app to help teams accomplish tasks.

Salesforce.com has acquired French startup EntropySoft

Salesforce.com has acquired Entropysoft, a French company that offers content integration solutions.

RubyGems.org hacked, interrupting Heroku services and putting sites using Rails at risk

"It's a critical part of the Ruby infrastructure," the programmer said. "Everything depends on RubyGems."

CloudBeat case study: Integrating Salesforce at Axcient isn’t magical

Integrating Salesforce.com isn't magical. Axcient found that it had to create a process for integrating it into the enterprise.

Dylan’s Desk: The tech industry is losing touch with the reality of working life

There's a right way and a wrong way to announce layoffs. Sadly, too many tech companies take an insensitive and shortsighted approach that shows just how out of touch they are with the rest of the world.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dragon Age III, Borderlands 2, and the BioWare doctors retire

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

How Activision uses Salesforce.com for engaging with (complaining) gamers

Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff relates how his company transformed the social support infrastructure at Activision Blizzard, the publisher of the Call of Duty games and an enterprise with $4.8 billion in annual sales.

Bunchball’s sales gamification 2.0: Easier to learn, easier to customize

Bunchball has upgraded its Nitro gamification for Salesforce.com, making it easier to use and customize.

Five tech industry predictions for 2012

The past year in technology was pretty wild.

The really big Internet IPO returned and the massive venture capital funding bubble inflated, which seems difficult considering that the venture capital industry is far smaller than it was three years ago. …

Dylan’s Desk: How I learned to stop worrying and love “the cloud”

As I write, the VentureBeat offices sit enveloped by a cloud. In all directions, the fog wraps our office building in a soft, gray fuzz, obscuring the views of downtown San Francisco, the bay, and the ocean.

It’s not unlike …