InsideSales laces up $35 million from hills of Silicon Slopes

Sales automation and predictive analytics company InsideSales raises significant second round of investment.

Salesforce CEO at CES: Be disruptive or you’ll end up in a ‘landfill’

Bathed in the glow of neon light, Marc Benioff, a keynote speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, delivered some golden rules for technology entrepreneurs.

Infusionsoft gets $54M to help small businesses compete with heavyweights

Infusionsoft raises a whopping $54 million for its custom, all-in-one sales and marketing automation software.

Desk.com adds gamification to boost service rep productivity

Salesforce-owned customer support app Desk.com has added a new “achievements” feature to motivate service representatives to earn badges as they help more people.

Andreessen-Horowitz injects $30M into encryption startup CipherCloud

If someone is trying to break into your enterprise, it's likely because they want your data. Companies are calling for cloud encryption, and Andreessen-Horowitz is joining the chorus by investing $30 million into cloud encryption company CipherCloud.

4M installs later, Heroku updates ‘add-on’ marketplace with self-service interface & better support

Popular platform-as-a-service Heroku has updated its add-on marketplace with more features to help developers and cloud tool providers get more out of the service.

Salesforce to predict the future with the power of Prior Knowledge

Salesforce acquires Prior Knowledge and its predictive database technology for developers.

High five, Marc Benioff! Salesforce.com shifts focus and beats expectations

Salesforce.com's aggressive acquisition strategy, and emphasis on all things cloud and mobile appears to be paying off.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 is ‘the end of Windows’

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, always game for a little tech trash talk, said that Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system would be "the end of Windows" and that "Windows is irrelevant."

Salesforce adds Klout, Kred, & 18 more tools to Marketing Cloud for better social analytics

Salesforce has added a wider array of services to its Marketing Cloud toolset, including Klout, Kred, Kanjoya, and PeekAnalytics, to help businesses not only listen to customers but also better understand them.

An ugly duckling no more: Why Platform-as-a-Service is poised for huge growth

Platform-as-a-Service is part of the booming cloud computing sector, one area of the cloud that some analysts and developers have overlooked. But recent research shows that PaaS is no longer the ugly duckling of the cloud industry -- and that it's ready to grow quite a bit during the next few years.

Salesforce worried more about Dropbox than its direct competitors, says COO

Salesforce may have some huge competitors like Netsuite and Oracle, but it's not the big dogs that keep the customer-relationship manger on its toes.

Yammer, Jive, Microsoft Sharepoint are ‘blank pieces of paper,’ says Zeppelin

What if you could have all of your employees, cloud applications, documents, files, and customer data in one place? Zeppelin thinks it can actually capture them all in a jar.

Keynote: Marc Benioff wants to lead a ‘social revolution’ in the enterprise

Benioff, Salesforce's outspoken CEO, took the stage for his keynote address at Dreamforce 2012 with one clear message: A "social revolution" is taking place, and his company wants to be the driving force behind it.

Exclusive interview: What is it like being CIO of the USA?

You don't often get a chance to chat with a former chief information officer of an entire country -- especially one the size and power of the United States of America.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff drops bomb on Box and Okta

Marc Benioff announces two new Salesforce tools that directly challenge enterprise products Box and Okta