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

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote address to Oracle World was scratched in a move the former Oracle VP didn’t understand.

Few organizations have moved to cloud computing -- the delivery of computing as a service from remote centers -- and of those that have, many are disappointed with the results, a survey published on Tuesday found.

Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc's Chief Executive Marc Benioff unveiled a slew of social networking tools and said he was inspired by recent revolutions in Egypt and Libya.

Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc raised its full-year revenue outlook, fueling hopes that cloud computing companies can avoid getting caught up in a possible slowdown in tech spending.

Social networking is coming to your next automobile thanks to Toyota.

Toyota Motor Corp and cloud computing company Salesforce.com Inc will build a social network service that will enable owners to become friends with their cars and get friendly, tweet-like reminders for maintenance checks and other notices.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Barnes & Noble, Salesforce.com, Anadarko Petroleum, Sprint Nextel Corp, Gap, Aeropostale, Ann, American Eagle Outfitters, LinkedIn Corp and LDK Solar.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Barnes & Noble, Foot Locker, Zuoan Fashion, Salesforce.com and Hypercom Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Gap, Inc, Aeropostale, Graphic Packaging, Bridgepoint Education, Vanceinfo Technologies and LinkedIn Corp.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Eastman Kodak, PetSmart, Eaton, First Majestic Silver, Salesforce.com, Big Lots, Advance Auto Parts, Merck & Co, Applied Materials and Intel Corp.

Salesforce.com's $326 million purchase of privately held Radian6 will allow the cloud-based software maker help its clients track customer trends on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Salesforce.com said it agreed to acquire Radian6, a social media monitoring platform, for about $326 million in cash and stock deal a move that will help Salesforce to effectively market its cloud-based products.

Shares of companies active in Thursday's early trade are: Red Hat, IMAX, Steelcase, Micron Technology, Best Buy, Salesforce.com, Paychex, Hologic, H.B. Fuller Co. and Northern Oil & Gas.

ON Semiconductor recently purchased Sanyo Semiconductor ($1.1 billion in annual revenues) and thus has several thousand employees and several fabs in Japan.

Last week's earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan and its aftermath in the form of nuclear reactor crisis present a near-term disruption for a handful of software companies that have exposure to the region.

Last week's earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan and its aftermath in the form of nuclear reactor crisis present a near-term disruption for a handful of software companies that have exposure to the region.

Internet marketing start-up HubSpot Inc. said it has raised $32 million from Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE:CRM) in its fourth round of funding. To date, the five-year old company has raised $65 million.

After its last high-profile cloud-computing launch, the Office 365, Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, its cloud-based CRM offering, will be available worldwide.

Salesforce.com Inc agreed to buy Heroku, a privately held cloud-platform company, for $212 million in cash, to expand into the fast growing social media and mobile space.

Salesforce is on the roll as the enterprise cloud-computing company announced that it has acquired Heroku, a company that offers Ruby platform-as-a-service (PaaS), for $212 million cash, just a day after releasing Database.com, the first cloud-based enterprise database.

Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company, on Tuesday launched Database.com, which is touted as the world’s first enterprise database built for the cloud.