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		<title><![CDATA[Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2. The new tool helps businesses connect their traditional call center technologies with social media applications through a cloud...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:42:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dreamforce: Benioff introduces Chatter]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=27542]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and social media tool built for the enterprise. Benioff says the new tool will leverage social-networking models and bring them into a secure and private cloud where...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:10:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1536]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla:  The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO  A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:50:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media platform]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and social media tool built for the enterprise. Benioff says the new tool will leverage social-networking models and bring them into a secure and private cloud where...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Salesforce.com: High maintenance costs are pushing customers to us]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=13525]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com delivered strong fourth quarter results that put CEO Marc Benioff in a more chatty mood than usual. The big takeaway: Salesforce.com is using high maintenance costs from big vendors like Oracle and SAP to its advantage.Â     First, the financial figures. Salesforce.com reported fourth quarter earnings of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:48:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10956]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend.    After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $276.5 million...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:56:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Salesforce mashes up the cloud so you don't have to]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Force.com now comes with built-in integration to three other major cloud platforms: Google Apps, Amazon Web Services and Facebook. The strategy positions Force.com as the optimal gateway to access Web resources when developing to the Web-as-platform. by Phil Wainewright]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:58:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social to CRM to Enterprise: Not So Fast....]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darn, I missed it: Salesforce.com is opening itself up to Facebook. Or is it the other way around? I had received a belated invite to attend SFDCâ€™s Dreamforce from Marc Benioff, but too much real work prevented me from attending. So I had to read the press releases and my...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:23:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=533]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff put on his jocular performance for the analysts and press at Dreamforce yesterday, I'm sure he didn't expect little ol' Zoho to come bite him in the pants. That's exactly what's happened.    According to Venture Beat's Anthony Ha:  Salesforce.comâ€™s strategy can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:50:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com announced a data sharing partnership with Facebook today. Only time will reveal whether it's a marriage made in heaven or an example of what happens when worlds collide. by Michael Krigsman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:08:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com started its Dreamforce conference by showing that it understands and supports enterprise software blogging. by Michael Krigsman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:49:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9762]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon.    On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:09:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce EuropeFrom all indicationsEverybody is searching still for Web 2.0. And they're trying to trot out Web 3.0 already?HDTV, Vista, and now Web 3.0. What will they think of next? Flying Monkeymobiles?]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:25:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale â€" 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 07:18:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Churchill Club: Benioff vs. Plattner (full version)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8481]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com debates SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner on the future of enterprise software.    We recapped the event, but there's the full audio.    Speakers:      	Marc Benioff,  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:00:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8376]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn't be larger.    Benioff brought the bluster, portrayed SAP as a dinosaur and prodded his much larger rival to develop in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:54:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Marc Benioff: Marketing maverick's journey from Apple to Salesforce]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-194505.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET News.com's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:36:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Signs point to Benioff to succeed Ellison at Oracle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=250]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The more I look at it the more I'm convinced that Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, will replace Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle when he retires.     Of course, that would mean Oracle acquiring Salesforce, but Apple got back Steve Jobs when it acquired his Next corp....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:48:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cook]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8242]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reckons that its platform as a service initiatives will take about a decade to truly bake.    Benioff made those comments in an interview with News.com's Dan Farber and Charles Cooper. The interview is worth a read given that Benioff and Dan usually have...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:12:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Marc Benioff on AIR (and Flex plus Flash)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=323]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Adobe hosted Engage an invitation only event at which it showcased some of the cool things developers are doing with Flex, Flash and AIR. Robert Scoble was there with his N95 and a Qik account, filming the entire day. Despite it being a closed event, Adobe made no effort...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:01:59 -0800</pubDate>
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