Tag archive: salesforce

Google can be a difficult thing to define. The company has its hands in numerous markets–mobile, operating systems, social, search–but above all, Google is an ad company; make no mistake about that. When it comes to its many, many products, it has a tendency to dip its toes in nearly every digital industry imaginable, a move that has been criticized. When Facebook debuted its Skype integration, CEO Mark Zuckerberg notably pointed out… Read More

Questions continue popping up around the tech sector on whether companies are worth their valuations. Yet despite the grumblings of another tech bubble, salesforce showed a record revenue in the second quarter of $546 million, up 38 percent since last year. According to the press release, it is the first cloud computing company to exceed $2.1 billion annual revenue run rate and their total customers rose to 104,000, up 21,600 or 26% since last… Read More

Activa Live develops a cloud-based live chat system that can be used for service and customer support. The acquisition will build upon Salesforce's support infrastructure. Activa Chat Live is currently available as a SaaS offering with a plugin for Salesforce.com available in the Salesforce App Exchange. Activa Live has some interesting technology built in which actually reveals what is being typed by a customer before being sent to the… Read More

Google is teaming up with Salesforce.com to work with businesses, and even before announcing the pairing, they’ve come up with a product, Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords.   It’s not the first time the two have worked together. Two years ago they came up with a Google Maps-Salesforce mash up which people could use to map their contacts, and just last year Saleforce offered a plug-in that allowed people to… Read More

From Nextel's press release: Vettro, Nextel Communications, Inc. and salesforce.com today announced the availability of Vettro RainMaker for salesforce.com – an on-demand mobile customer relationship management (CRM) service optimized for Nextel's Java technology-enabled phones and Nextel BlackBerry devices. The new offering extends salesforce.com to help sales teams increase the number of closed business deals,… Read More