Salesforce.com launches Social.com advertising application

Advertising is about to get more social. Hosted customer relationship management (CRM) vendor Salesforce.com has launched Social.com, a social advertising application to create, optimize and automate social ad campaigns. According to the vendor,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 26th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

More “social intelligence” comes to Chatter

Chatter: now with more social intelligence. Hosted business software vendor Salesforce.com said Thursday that it is bringing new social intelligence capabilities to Chatter, its social networking platform for the enterprise. According to the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 4th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Salesforce brings Chatter to Android and iOS devices

Business software vendor Salesforce.com has launched the latest edition of Chatter, its enterprise social networking application. Native Chatter apps are now available for Android and iOS, and users are gaining the ability to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 19th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Rypple co-founder lands role in venture capital

What do you do after you sell your startup to Salesforce.com? You go into venture capital, of course. Omers Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of the Omers, one of Canada’s largest pension

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 6th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Twitter partners with HootSuite, Salesforce.com on Promoted Products

Twitter announced an expansion of its Promoted Products advertisements today with integration into social media managment tools including Salesforce.com's Marketing Cloud and Hootsuite. The social media site hopes to better optimize its Ads

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 21st, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto

Former Radian6 employees join ‘relationship capital’ mining startup

Several former Radian6 employees are now part of a new social startup based in New Brunswick, that promises to unlock more sales opportunities by mining a business' own employees. Described as a “relationship

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 13th, 2013 Brian Jackson

2013 will be year of crowdfunding and brain controlled computing

It's that time of year again. The tech journalists at IT World Canada are gazing into their crystal balls once again and prognosticating on what developments the tech industry will see in 2013.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 7th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Businesses embracing cloud software: IDC

Cloud-based software offerings overcame recent high profile data breaches to grow 27 per cent in the Canadian market, according to an IDC Canada study.Revenues from cloud software, or software as a service (SaaS),

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 21st, 2012 Brian Jackson

Influitive showcases social marketing at Dreamforce launch

Influitive founder Mark Organ knows the power of peer recommendations – that's why he's seeded the show floor at San Francisco's Dreamforce conference with happy users of his new software as it debuts

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 20th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Radian6 technology powers Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud

The murky fate of Saint John, N.B.-based Radian6 since it was acquired by Salesforce.com in March 2011 became crystal clear this morning when the software firm announced its new Marketing Cloud service. Salesforce

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 19th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Salesforce.com set to announce new product featuring Radian 6

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff indicated during a quarterly earnings conference call a major product launch is in the works that will tap Canadian acquisition Radian 6’s social analytics technology, according to Forbes.The Halifax-based

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 24th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Vancouver’s Sitemasher team plays key role in newly unveiled Salesforce Communities

San Francisco-based Salesforce.com is taking its business social software Chatter and is allowing customers to create externally-focused networks in a new product called Salesforce Communities, the firm announced yesterday.Salesforce Communities will allow businesses

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 15th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Salesforce.com promises to keep Rypple and Radian6 in Canada

Salesforce.com swept through Toronto on Wednesday for its cloud-based social enterprise roadshow, delivering a message aimed squarely at Canadian ears: the acquisitions it's made north of the border are here to stay. Salesforce.com

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 7th, 2012 Christine Wong

Salesforce.com to buy Buddy Media for $689 million

Salesforce.com is acquiring social media marketing firm Buddy Media in a US$689 million cash and stock deal, the companies announced Monday. The transaction is expected to close in Salesforce.com's third fiscal quarter, which

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 4th, 2012 Chris Kanaracus