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Salesforce today announced that it has entered in an agreement to acquire the digital marketing firm ExactTarget in a transaction valued at approximately $2.5 billion. Under the terms of agreement, the CRM platform company will commence a tender offer for all outstanding shares of ExactTarget for price of $33.75 per share in cash. Also, the transaction has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies. “This is a really historic day for cloud computing. We are just thrilled,” said Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff...

The CRM platform company Salesforce has reported its first quarter 2014 earnings with revenue for the quarter was $893 million, an increase of 28% on a year-over-year basis while subscription and support revenues were $842 million, an increase of 29% year on a year-over-year basis. Professional services and other revenues were $50 million, an increase of 25% on a year-over-year basis. The GAAP earnings per share reported for the quarter was ($0.12) while non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.10. The company further reported the operating...

Google today announced that it has been offering 15GB of free shared storage across three of its services, Google Drive, Gmail and Google+ while earlier the company offered 10GB for Gmail along with 5GB for Drive and Google+ Photos. The roll out will take the next couple of weeks. The company also shared that it is bringing updates to the Google Drive storage page, which means you can now understand storage space much better. Along with this, the company says if you need more storage, then you can opt for plans starting at $4.99/month...

Microsoft today rolled out new SkyDrive timeline and filmstrip views, speeds up photo upload time three-fold. The updates availability starting from immediately, but yes as it always take, it do requires some time for the company to roll out gradually. The update will let you scroll down to navigate through all the images, organized into groups by event and time. Even, if you want to quickly navigate to a specific month, just click the month name. You can also view all your photos in the filmstrip view, which allow you to watch them in...

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Pioneer on a business and capital alliance. Under the capital alliance, DoCoMo will invest about five billion yen (about $50 million) to acquire 7% stake of Pioneer through a third-party allocation on this coming June 28. The alliance will integrate Pioneer’s in-car navigation telematics technologies and related peripheral development capabilities with DoCoMo’s mobile cloud expertise to develop a cloud-based intelligent transport system (ITS) that will...

Salesforce has acquired Clipboard, a service which allows users to save and share content online for the reported acquisition price ranges between $10 and $20 million, according to AllThingsD. The company is closing down its service completely on June 30, reads the Clipboard site. The deal now let, Clipboard claims that it will now be able to “pursue [its] mission of saving and sharing the Web on a much larger scale.” The company Clipboard started its service back in 2011 as a simple copy-and-paste bookmarklet, and with time the service...

Google today announced the launch of a one-click button or “Save to Drive” button on the Web to Google Drive. If you have your own website, you can improve the experience for your site visitors by adding the “Save to Drive” button to your page using two easy lines of HTML. The Save to Drive button’s also be used via its JavaScript API, allowing programmatic and flexible control of the creation of Save to Drive buttons in your web pages. <script src=”https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script> <div...

The cloud hosting provider Rackspace today announced the financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The company reported the net revenue for the first quarter was $362 million, up 2.6% from the last quarter and 20% from the same quarter a year ago. Net revenue for the period was reported negative. The company also shared the total server count, which has been increased to 94, 122, up from 90, 524 servers at the end of the previous quarter. “We got off to a slow start for the year. Building a lasting, successful business...

Google via Google Drive Google+ page announced that now the users can share files from PC and Mac. The move means now users need to simply right click and choose “share” from a Google Drive submenu. The company says the feature will completely roll out to its Google Drive app for PC and Mac over the next few days. Here is what Google says about the update: Save time with right-click sharing from your Google Drive folder For those looking to share files more quickly, listen up. You can now share with others directly from the Google...

Microsoft today announced that its cloud storage service SkyDrive passed 250 million users. The company also said that since the time Windows 8 make its debut in October last year it has added some 50 million accounts to the service. Here is what Omar Shahine, Group Program Manager, SkyDrive.com and Mike Torres, Group Program Manager, SkyDrive apps says about it: It’s been a very busy year for SkyDrive and we’d like to thank all of you for helping us improve the service through your feedback, tweets, Facebook posts, and comments....