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Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, said it had agreed to acquire private Collective Intellect to bolster its Cloud capabilities for software-as-a-service functions.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade Thursday are: Transocean, Whole Foods Market, Smith & Nephew, Salesforce.com, Intel Corp, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Delhaize Group, Novatel Wireless, Skullcandy, Limited Brands and Safeway Inc.

The S&P 500 was little changed on Friday but on track to finish at four-year highs after upbeat reports on housing and consumer sentiment.

The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Thursday were: Salesforce.com, 3D Systems Corp, American International Group, Magna International, Pacific Drilling, American Equity Investment, Rackspace Hosting and Suntech Power Holdings.

Salesforce.com Inc is entering the business of selling human resources software in a move that raises the stakes in its battle to woo customers away from bigger rivals SAP AG and Oracle Corp..

Glassdoor, a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and chief executive officers, has released its fourth annual Employees' Choice Awards, which lists the 50 best places to work, based on surveys collected from U.S. employees through 2011.

SAP AG's purchase of Web-based software company SuccessFactors Inc could be the catalyst the old-school German technology giant needs to try to catch up to rivals in the fast-growing cloud computing market.

SAP AG's purchase of Web-based software company SuccessFactors Inc could be the catalyst the old-school German technology giant needs to try to catch up to rivals in the fast-growing cloud computing market.

Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) held its Cloudforce user event in New York City on Wednesday. The company formally launched its Social Marketing Cloud service and the AppExchange Mobile Site at the event.

Startup cloud-computing company posts online ad for $10 groupies to promote brand at upcoming convention.

Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) said Thursday it slipped to a loss in its third quarter on higher costs and said the losses would continue into the fourth quarter.

Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc posted a quarterly net loss as its marketing and sales costs increased, and it forecast current-quarter earnings broadly in line with Wall Street estimates.

Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc forecast current-quarter earnings broadly in line with Wall Street estimates and posted a quarterly net loss as its marketing and sales costs increased sharply.

Business software maker Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) may be setting its sights on Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) but the deal may not be an imminent one, according to an analyst at Global Equities Research.

Global Equities Research has downgraded Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) to equal weight, saying that the company would face stiff competition that may hurt revenue and margins.

Venture capital firm Benchmark Capital has selected Salesforce.com's Craig Weissman as its new entrepreneur-in-residence, demonstrating a continuing interest in technology surrounding big data and the cloud.

Oracle Corp. announced it is building Oracle Public Cloud, a cloud service to host many of its key software products, including Java, database, middleware, and customer-relationship-management applications.

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced the general availability of Fusion Applications during Wednesday evening's keynote and unveiled the company's new Platform-as-a-Service and Social Network offerings.

Technology giant Oracle Corp has developed an ambitious array of cloud computing services in a bid to catch up with Amazon.com Inc and Salesforce.com Inc, two leaders in the field.

Salesforce.com Inc scored a coup by publicizing a dispute with rival Oracle Corp over something seemingly as mundane as the timing of a speech.

Salesforce.com Inc and Oracle Corp engaged in a public spat over a keynote speech on Wednesday, highlighting the software companies' increasingly bitter rivalry.