Salesforce.com Upgrades Force.com With Mobile, Database Gifts for Developers

Salesforce.com and Rackspace gear up for mobile developers

Industry giants are adding more development and platform goodies for mobile app developers. This may have the more targeted MBaaS providers a little perplexed.     

gigaom.com (1 month and 14 days ago)

Salesforce.com adds central file view to Chatter mobile app

Salesforce.com wants to simplify the way mobile users find, access and share files from its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application. A new version of the Chatter mobile application for iOS and Android tablets and smartphones adds a central container of all files stored in Salesforce.com to which users have access. Until now, users of the Chatter mobile...

pcworld.com (9 days ago)

1 Million Reasons Shorting Salesforce Stock Is More Dangerous Now

Filed under: Investing In what might be characterized as a celebration of 1 million developers using its platform for hosting Web-based software, salesforce.com announced new software development packages meant to broaden its appeal for apps targeted at mobile devices. Executives will tout the new SDK, which supports iOS and Android as well as HTML5 for pure Web apps, during...

dailyfinance.com (1 month and 14 days ago)

Salesforce.com's Going Mobile, Just in Time

Filed under: Investing If timing is everything, the unveiling of salesforce.com's mobile services application development platform April 9 was spot-on. The service aims to tap the skills of third-party developers, much as smartphone manufacturers do, to expand and personalize the mobile customer relationship management, or CRM, experience. Salesforce says its new platform is...

dailyfinance.com (1 month and 10 days ago)

Salesforce rolls out new mobile features for its Chatter social network

Salesforce.com recognizes the need to give employees the power to work on the go with mobile devices, and now they can view and share more through the company's internal Chatter social network.

gigaom.com (2 months and 7 days ago)

Salesforce.com aims its customer service, social monitoring apps at governments

Salesforce.com is hoping to set the standard for how government bodies deliver online services to citizens using mobile devices. The cloud-based software vendor on Wednesday announced Rapid Response 311, a mobile application that citizens can use to log and track requests for service; Mobile Communities for Government; Government Social Command Center and Mobile Platform...

pcworld.com (2 days ago)

Salesforce.com launches new services for mobile app development

Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform.Like most enterprise software vendors, Salesforce.com is trying to cater to a world where end users increasingly want to, or because they are frequently on the road need to, work on their smartphones, tablets or other mobile...

pcworld.com (1 month and 14 days ago)

Salesforce Nabs Open Source Database Guru for War on Oracle

wired.com (1 day ago)

Clustrix nets $16.5M to push its database outside the box

NewSQL company will use its new cash to make its proprietary database more easily available to developers via their cloud infrastructure of choice, says CEO Robin Purohit.    

gigaom.com (18 days ago)

Salesforce.com's quarterly results disappoint Wall Street

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc's quarterly earnings and outlook disappointed investors as costs rise following a spree of acquisitions, sending its shares lower. Under Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO and founder, the company's fast revenue growth has made it a favorite with investors eager to own part of the growing trend among businesses to outsource their...

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