How Box, Salesforce, & Workday are building mobile apps you’d actually want to use

Mobile design has never been more important than it is now, and the top enterprise app makers have taken notice.

Salesforce to buy cloud marketing biz ExactTarget for a massive $2.5B

Enterprise software behemoth Salesforce has agreed to buy digital marketing firm ExactTarget for a massive $2.5 billion. This will be Salesforce's biggest acquisition ever.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff reveals his latest investment: Brandcast

Benioff led the seed and first round of financing in Brandcast, a startup that helps brands maintain a web presence.

Get in line: Investors flock to hot anti-fraud startup Sift Science

SiftScience has raised $5.5 million from high-profile investors, including Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, and more.

Salesforce.com is raising $1B in convertible debt to fuel acquisitions

Salesforce announced plans to offer $1 billion in convertible senior notes in a private placement to institutional investors.

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 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.

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.

‘Uber for airplanes’: BlackJet takes off with Ashton Kutcher and other celeb investors

Serial founder Garrett Camp, who started both StumbleUpon and Uber, a modern re-imagining of the limo-slash-taxi business, is now trying to reinvent executive air travel.

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."

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.

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.

Tech industry leaders helped Obama raise $27M for re-election bid

The entertainment and financial industries aren't the only sections of the business world hoping to impact political change through donations.

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

Cisco adds outspoken Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to board

Networking giant Cisco has added Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to its board of directors, a sign that it wants to get more serious about cloud-focused services and hardware.

Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle before he founded Salesforce on the …

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 …

Symantec, Facebook, Salesforce execs want a new firewall for the social age

Today’s younger generation suffers from “continuous partial attention,” Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem said at a security conference today. And it’s going to take a new kind of firewall to protect us, he said; one that doesn’t just pay attention …