The number of people using cloud services will increase to 3.6 billion by 2018, according to Juniper Research. The firm says that 2.4 billion people currently use cloud-based services in one form or another, with cloud-based data storage, social media, music and games helping to drive the trend upwards. But what are the new cloud … Read more
While new-age industries such as social media and cloud-computing generate more than their fair share of headlines, investors may want to start paying attention to one of the world’s oldest sectors. Agriculture sales and production expenses are reaching new record highs. U.S. producers sold $394.6 billion worth of agricultural products in 2012, which cost $328.9 … Read more
Mixed earnings news caused the continued decline in the value of social media, cloud computing and biotechnology companies. The deteriorating situation in eastern Ukraine also influenced investor behavior as we head into the weekend. Standard & Poor’s Rating Services cut Russia’s sovereign debt rating, citing the political and military tensions in Ukraine and the likelihood … Read more
The social media expansion has shown just how people are eager to share their experiences with the rest of the world. Cloud technology is the perfect platform to satisfy this need given its great flexibility and readiness. At Cynny, we aim to revolutionize how people share and organize their digital life through a brand new … Read more
Lack of confidence and the perception that social media/social commerce is time consuming holds SMEs back Groupon today revealed the findings of a survey conducted across 360 SMEs, to gather their views on social media. Questions ranged from how often businesses used social media, to what the main reasons were for companies not using it … Read more
With more than 400 million Tweets per day, Salesforce Radian6 and Twitter provide companies with new opportunities to listen, engage and gain customer insight in real time Alliance connects social enterprises to the voice of the customer SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/), and Twitter today announced a strategic … Read more
Adds Leading Social Marketing and Engagement Platform to the Oracle Cloud Oracle announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Vitrue, a leading cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform that enables marketers to centrally create, publish, moderate, manage, measure and report on their social marketing campaigns and activities on social media platforms … Read more
New Chatter Messenger to provide social enterprises with instant messaging and presence in the context of business – completely in the cloud New Chatter Screensharing will enable employees to share their screens in real time in Salesforce Chatter – now every group, file, record and dashboard is an opportunity to collaborate live with colleagues and … Read more
Salesforce.com plans to add more than 750 new jobs across Europe to meet growing demand for the social enterprise More than 20,000 customers in Europe choose salesforce.com to transform into social enterprises More than 14,000 people registered to attend Cloudforce London 2012, Europe’s largest social enterprise event LONDON — Cloudforce 2012 – Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], … Read more
The worldwide Cloudforce Social Enterprise Tour arrives in London on May 22nd, and you can watch all the ground-breaking announcements live – on any device! • Hear the latest salesforce.com news from three live keynote sessions • See how O2, Burberry, Spotify, Activision, LinkedIn and other companies are becoming Social Enterprises • View the latest … Read more