Shift attacks Salesforce, Adobe with ‘open marketing cloud,’ an app store for digital marketing tools

Salesforce says it has the world's only unified social marketing suite. Adobe says its marketing cloud is a single service that includes everything digital marketers need to get ahead.

Shift begs to differ.

Funding daily: Money, money, money, as no fewer than 13 companies get funded or acquired

Femtocells, human organs, and space: funding daily for April 3 is full as 13 companies raised money, financing, or were sold.

FirstRain brings enterprise analytics to Salesforce’s Touch Platform in first third-party integration

Today, FirstRain is bringing that platform alive with its first third-party enterprise integration: a drop-in HTML5 component that offers advanced in-app business analytics.

GetSalesDone launches to take the ugly out of sales contact software

With GetSalesDone, Dexplora says it has the cure to ugly and infrequently-updated CRM systems.

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.

Facebook and Twitter’s billing provider, Revstream, launches a cloud-based revenue management app on Force.com

The little-known company that provides high-end revenue lifecycle management software for Twitter and Facebook is now offering the same technology for the little guy.

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, AT&T, Motorola, AMD: 4 tech companies that pay their CEO more than they pay Uncle Sam

SalesForce, AT&T, Motorola, and AMD are four tech companies in a group most CEOs would love to belong to, but most public relations departments would hate.

The American taxpayer? She might hate it too.