Friday - April 18, 2008
News that Google and Salesforce.com are forging closer ties reignited speculation that the two companies are destined for deeper collaboration -- if not a merger. On April 14, software maker Salesforce.com said it would begin distributing Google Apps, Web-based programs designed to help companies be more productive. Salesforce.com will also weave the Google technology into its own customer relationship management applications to make it a snap to jump from, say, a Google Spreadsheet program to a Salesforce customer-tracking application.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
They may be still waiting for the first signs of the much advertised recession in the Bay Area. Everything I see here, especially this week, points to growth and all that goes with it. Multiple people have come up to me, phoned or e-mailed seeking introductions or support as they confess to having itchy feet or the promise of some capital to start a business.
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Monday - April 14, 2008
Salesforce.com and Google have announced the rollout of Salesforce for Google Apps, a product that combines Google's budding suite of productivity applications with the ubiquitous on-demand customer relationship management application. The two are already collaborators on Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google Adwords.
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
Oracle has gone to the debt markets to fund its $8.5 billion purchase of BEA Systems. The company has priced an offering in three series of investment-grade notes for a total of $5 billion. Not all of the $5 billion will be put toward the acquisition of BEA; Oracle intends to use some of the offering's proceeds for acquisition-related expenses and for general corporate purposes.
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Wednesday - March 19, 2008
SAS announced Monday that it bought a language software company that helps businesses screen online forums, e-mail, surveys and other material. Teragram, a 40-employee company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., will operate as a division of SAS's text mining business. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Tuesday - March 4, 2008
PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel succumbed to the pull of its tractor beam. Could Salesforce.com be next on Oracle's list? Though this rumor has been around for several years as idle speculation, in the last several months it's taken on new life. The tenor of the gossip has changed since a San Francisco tech publication and some bloggers have picked up the scent of a possible deal in the works.
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Monday - February 25, 2008
Shares in SAP were lower in morning trade as dealers said talk about possible future acquisitions for the software manufacturer was offsetting merger and acquisition speculation concerning the unlikely takeover from software giant Microsoft. "Jitters about a possible expensive takeover by the software company are helping to put pressure on its shares," said a Frankfurt-based trader.
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Sunday - February 10, 2008
SugarCRM will be building out its global footprint and investing in its engineering bench now that it has completed its latest round of funding. The open source customer relationship management provider just secured a $20 million package, led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing its total funding to $46 million.
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Friday - January 25, 2008
ATG is building out its personalization feature set with the $10 million acquisition of best-of-breed vendor CleverSet. It is the first acquisition the company has made since its $48.3 million eStara deal in 2006. CleverSet is an automated personalization engine delivered in Software as a Service mode.
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Friday - January 18, 2008
I guess not every Macworld can have an iPhone of its own. Crowds of Apple fans packed the Moscone center in San Francisco Tuesday to hear CEO Steve Jobs detail new products and offerings for 2008. There was indeed plenty to talk about -- the MacBook Air, new iPhone and iPod touch applications, a major software update for Apple TV, iTunes movie rentals, and a wireless access point/storage device called "Time Capsule."
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Wednesday - January 16, 2008
Three months after BEA Systems rejected its first unsolicited offer of $6.7 billion, Oracle announced that it will be acquiring the middleware and business process management vendor after all -- for $8.5 billion, or $19.38 per share. That's a 14 percent premium over its first bid and a 24 percent premium over BEA's closing share price of $15.58.
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