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Ribbit Announces Channel Partner Program, Launches 2.0 Release of Ribbit for Salesforce CRM (Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 3 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Thu, 11 November 2008 14:57:28 GMT

Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference -- Ribbit, Silicon Valley's first phone company, today announced both the new release of Ribbit for Salesforce CRM and its channel partner program. The 2.0 release builds on Ribbit's existing seamless integration of mobile voice communications with Salesforce CRM by adding landline and instant messaging communications.

Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps, Data

Tue, 07 July 2008 17:08:40 GMT

The Move Deepens the Partnership Between Google and Salesforce.com and Fuels More Speculation About a Future Acquisition, Analysts Say. C.G. Lynch, CIO.com

Salesforce.com has added a toolkit to its Force.com platform today that allows its partners and developers to access Google's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Papa Murphy's Utilizes Salesforce Software-as-a-Service as a Key Ingredient in Its Recipe of Success

Thu, 06 June 2008 13:38:00 GMT

Largest take 'n' bake pizza chain uses Force.com Platform-as-a-Service to create and deploy a highly tailored franchising solution.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com(NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that the fifth largest pizzachain in the country is using Salesforce to increase the success of itsexpanding franchise business. Using the Force.

Salesforce.com promotes development in the cloud

Wed, 05 May 2008 15:13:10 GMT

Now that Salesforce.com has proved that SaaS (software-as-a-service) is a successful business model, the company hopes to lead the way in cloud computing.

Many in the software industry consider cloud computing -- offering a development infrastructure as a service -- to be the next step in the move away from packaged software.

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Web 2.0 goes to work

Wed, 05 May 2008 14:06:58 GMT

On the eve of the latest and largest Internet gathering this year, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Conference and Expo, Forrester Research dropped a report that concludes that companies will spend $4.6 billion on Web2-related technologies by 2013. What that means for you, fellow office dweller, is that Forrester believes the world of wikis, widgets, blogs, mashups and social networks will increasingly find a way into your work life.

Dell, Starbucks, and the marketplace of ideas

Tue, 05 May 2008 18:21:07 GMT

Quoted from Buzz Machine by Jeff Jarvis

Just as I was researching a column for the Guardian on Starbucks’ MyStarbucksIdea and Dell’s IdeaStorm — both of which use Salesforce.com’s Ideas platform — I got an email from Business Week asking me to write about Starbucks. So here’s a twofer: my Guardian column about this new platform for customers to share ideas (and my wish that it would come to government) and the Business Week story about Starbucks.