News

• Salesforce.com retools marketing message around 'customer companies'

  Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has laid out a new strategic and thematic direction for his company, saying that its goal will now be to help clients become "customer companies," with the end result being greater success.

• Salesforce.com CEO Benioff: Windows 8 will mark 'the end' of the Microsoft OS

  Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will mark "the end" of the computer industry's dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives, according to Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff.

• Benioff comes out swinging at Oracle

  The Salesforce.com chief continued his spat with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday morning - and you might not see Marc Benioff at an Oracle conference again.

• Five outsiders who could lead Hewlett-Packard

  Having gone through a rash of CEOs in the past 10 to 15 years, Hewlett-Packard may soon find itself looking for yet another new chief, despite just tapping Meg Whitman for that job this week.

• Salesforce.com's Benioff talks growth, Microsoft

  Salesforce.com has come a long way from its beginnings as an on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor.

• Salesforce.com deepens tie-in to Facebook

  Salesforce.com is deepening the integration between its CRM (customer relationship management) and customer service software with the explosively popular social-networking site Facebook, Salesforce.com will announce on Thursday at an event in New York.

• Benioff trumpets Force.com platform's success

  Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.