By Peter Piazza
Microsoft is directly challenging Salesforce.com with its new hosted CRM service, which is in beta testing now and should be launched for general sign-up in the middle of this year. All indications are that Microsoft will launch a full-scale attack, with extremely aggressive pricing: Salesforce.com’s similar offerings cost about 50 percent more.
Microsoft offered [...]

Strong fourth-quarter and full-year earnings prompt Salesforce.com to predict that its revenue in fiscal 2009 will exceed $1 billion for the first time.
By Renee Boucher Ferguson
Salesforce.com just keeps topping its own as well as Wall Street’s expectations, reporting a 50 percent jump in fourth-quarter revenues compared with the same quarter a year ago.
The company’s [...]

With the help of Web-application powerhouse Adobe, Marc Benioff — Salesforce.com’s founder, chairman, and chief executive officer — brings his company’s Force.com platform to the corporate desktop.
Everyday Internet users who surf Google’s YouTube or download PDF files are familiar with Adobe’s Flash Player and its Acrobat Reader. Now Salesforce.com has teamed with Adobe to give [...]

SaaS CRM making millionsBy Barney Beal, News Director
06 Dec 2007
The market for CRM delivered as a service got a shot in the arm this week as NetSuite Inc. detailed its initial public offering (IPO) plans and Salesforce.com announced that it will reach one million subscribers this month.
Both moves come the same week that SAP released [...]

Salesforce.com falls for phishing scam, warns customers
Salesforce.com is warning customers that they may be the targets of malicious software or phishing scams, after one of its employees was tricked into divulging a corporate password.
In a note to customers, Salesforce said that online criminals have been sending customers fake invoices and, starting just a few days [...]