Salesforce's biggest acquisition yet: ExactTarget for $2.5BRepresenting the largest acquisition by Salesforce to date, the CRM market leader will buy all the outstanding shares in ExactTarget for $2.5 billion — paying a stock premium of more than 50 percent on its recent share price.June 4, 2013 by Zack Whittaker in Salesforce.com
Cisco adds two CEOs to board of directors in cloud, green pushCisco expands its board by two places and includes Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff in one of the vacancies, and a green energy advocate. Sounds like a match made in heaven. August 2, 2012 by Zack Whittaker in Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com suffers worldwide disruption after power outageSalesforce.com has suffered a series of outages that left many unable to use the CRM service. Even the service status page was down for a while. July 10, 2012 by Zack Whittaker in Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com to buy GoInstant for $70m: reportSalesforce.com continues to buy, buy, buy, as reports suggest the social enterprise company will snap GoInstant for $70 million in the not-so-distant future.July 9, 2012 by Zack Whittaker in Salesforce.com