Salesforce urges EU to block Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn

When Microsoft announced they'd won the bidding war for LinkedIn with a colossal $26.2 billion offer, it seemed, well, about as interesting as corporate enterprise acquisitions sound. Yet it's a shrewd move for both: Integrating a business-oriented s...

Microsoft Not Interested in Buying Salesforce, Says Report


Microsoft isn’t interested in spending its billions for Salesforce, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft is considering a bid to...

Microsoft Reportedly Interested in Acquiring Salesforce


Microsoft is reportedly considering a bid for Salesforce, the giant cloud computing company based in San Francisco. Sources told Bloomberg that Microsoft is evaluating its options after Salesforce...

Will Adobe Shares Hit $100?


As an Adobe Systems shareholder, I dread the day before its quarterly earnings announcements. That’s because I realize that its shares could lose 10% of their value within minutes of Adobe’s earnings...

Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2014


By 2018, CIOs expect it to play a critical role in enabling their organizations strategic vision according to IBM’s latest study, Moving from the back office to the front lines – CIO insights from...

Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks March 3rd to March 7th And Year-to-Date


The six highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), Fusion-IO (NYSE: FIO), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV),   ...

February Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks


The six highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Workday (NYSE:WDAY), Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Riverbed...

Designing A Smart Calendar for Businesses


For the past several months I’ve used a couple of smart calendars: Sunrise, and Tempo. I used to use Cue as well before they were bought by Apple. These tools all (kind of) automate stuff I used to...

Ex-Googlers at Shape Security Get $40 Million More To Fund Their War On Bots


Shape security spent more than two years working in secret before officially launching its buzzy web security appliance last month. But at its first public appearance at the RSA security conference...