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Marc Benioff’s Secret Sales Weapon: Chatter On The iPhone (Video)

As you'd expect, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a constant salesman. At a dinner last night in New York City, he kept showing everybody in the room his newest baby, Salesforce Chatter, which turns Salesforce into feeds of people and customer data. He was showing it on his iPhone, which he wields as [...]

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Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Green E-Biller Transactis Raises $2.5 Million

Banks, cable companies, and utilities all want to get rid of their paper bills and get customers on their electronic billing systems. Just as there were back-office billing providers for the paper era, there are now back-office electronic billers. A company in Charlotte, North Carolina called Transactis is one of them, and it just [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

AT&T Emails SF Customers That The Network Is Getting Better (Did The Call Fail?)

When bashing AT&T’s network, two cities usually come up above all others: New York City and San Francisco. AT&T has even acknowledged just how bad it is in those cities. But they’ve also said for a while that they’re working on making it better. And apparently now that work is far enough along that they’re [...]

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Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Glam Media On A Roll: Raises $50 Million In Private Equity At $750 Million Valuation

Glam Media, a vertical advertising network, has raised its fifth round of venture capital – $50 million from aeris CAPITAL, a Switzerland and Silicon Valley based private equity fund. The company is not disclosing the valuation of the round, but it is rumored to be around $750 million.
Glam’s last major funding was a $85 million [...]

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Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments