DecisionDesk nets $1.7M to help colleges & companies pick the best people (exclusive)

Ever had to collect thousands of applications and whittle them down to find the best hundred candidates? It’s not an easy task, but DecisionDesk wants to change that.

Salesforce revamps Chatter for iOS & Android to let you edit customer data, create polls, & more

Salesforce has updated its iOS and Android versions of Chatter — the company’s business social networking and collaboration service — with critical new features to match their browser counterpart.

Oracle to acquire cloud management software biz Nimbula

Enterprise software titan Oracle has agreed to acquire Nimbula -- a cloud infrastructure management software company founded by former Amazon Web Services gurus.

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.

Health care software biz Recondo Technology grabs $20M from Bregal Sagemount

Healthcare software and cloud solutions company Recondo Technology has received a $20 million investment from Bregal Sagemount to accelerate its growth in the booming healthcare sector.

Cisco gets serious about cloud software with $125M acquisition of Cloupia

Networking behemoth Cisco has agreed to acquire cloud software business Cloupia for $150 million.

Workday kicks IPO ass with 72% pop in first-day trading

In a commanding and impressive IPO performance, cloud software company Workday's stock soared 72 percent in early trading today.

Clarizen lands $12M from Vintage Partners to spice up project management apps

Social collaboration and project management startup Clarizen has raised $12 million in its fifth round of funding to expand and improve the user experience of its software, the company announced Tuesday.

While the company sounds like it’s an allergy drug, …

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) …

Oracle agrees to buy SuccessFactors rival Taleo for $1.9B

Software titan and now cloud services provider Oracle has agreed to acquire talent management cloud company Taleo for $1.9 billion, the companies announced today.

The deal greatly mirrors the $3.4 billion acquisition of employee performance management software provider SuccessFactors by …

Workday gears up for IPO, plans to raise up to $500M

Following in the footsteps of Jive Software’s successful IPO, Workday, a company that provides cloud software for business operations, is said to be planning for its own public offering next year.

The company hopes to raise up to $500 million …

Jive stock up nearly 30 percent at close of its first trading day

Jive Software kicked off its initial public offering at $12 a share on the Nasdaq this morning, and closed nearly 30 percent up at $15.05.

The company produces social business software, which enterprises use as an internal communication system outside …

Zendesk upgrades help desk app for Android phones, tablets

Customer help desk management startup Zendesk has launched a new version of its Android app that includes a new design, real-time updates, photo attachment support and improved access to support activity, the company announced today.

Zendesk made our recent list …

VMTurbo grabs $10M from Bain, Highland to expand cloud virtualization solutions

Cloud automation startup VMTurbo has raised a second round of funding worth $10 million, which will be used to expand sales and marketing, product development and customer support.

VMTurbo provides virtualization management solutions that combine real-time operations performance data with …

Atlassian brings JIRA and other major development tools to the cloud

Enterprise software startup Atlassian announced Tuesday that is moving its collaboration and development products, including JIRA and Confluence, to the cloud with an innovative pricing structure.

Atlassian‘s products, especially bug-and-issue tracker JIRA, are important to enterprise and small clients alike. …

Microsoft Office 365 experiences its first major outage (updated)

Cloud-based software suite Microsoft Office 365 on Wednesday suffered its first major outage since its introduction in late June.

“At approximately 11:30am PDT, Microsoft became aware of a networking issue affecting customers of some Microsoft services hosted out of one …

Hands on with Office 365: a smart option for small businesses

If you’re a small business or startup, Microsoft Office 365 should be on your technology shortlist. It’s a cloud-based suite based on the world’s most popular office software that launched in late June. It will likely get small businesses and …

Google strikes at Microsoft with Office 365 criticisms

On the day before Microsoft’s Office 365 launches, Google has taken steps to preemptively keep customers from choosing 365 over Google Apps. In a blog post, Google Apps Product Manager Shan Sinha listed four reason Office 365 was a weaker …