Docker and Mulesoft have announced a broad deal to sell products together and integrate their platforms. As part of it, Docker is getting an investment from Salesforce, the CRM giant that acquired Mulesoft for $6.5 billion last spring. Salesforce is not disclosing the size of the stake it’s taking in Docker, but it is strategic: […]
View More Docker inks partnership with Mulesoft as Salesforce takes a strategic stakeCategory: Salesforce
Brex has partnered with WeWork, AWS and more for its new rewards program
Brex cardholders can now accrue and spend points on AWS, Twilio, SalesForce, WeWork, Instacart and more.
View More Brex has partnered with WeWork, AWS and more for its new rewards programArianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is teaming up with Zenefits
Thrive has partnered with Zenefits to expand the reach of its wellness content.
View More Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is teaming up with ZenefitsShasta Ventures is doubling down on security startups with 3 new hires
Shasta has hired former Symantec GM Balaji Yelamanchili, former Salesforce CISO Izak Mutlu and longtime enterprise software exec Drew Harman to focus on security.
View More Shasta Ventures is doubling down on security startups with 3 new hiresSalesforce acquires Rebel, maker of ‘interactive’ email services, to expand its Marketing Cloud
Salesforce’s Marketing and Commerce Cloud is the company’s smallest division today, so to help beef it up, the company is making an acquisition to add in more features. Salesforce has acquired Rebel, a startup that develops interactive email services for businesses to enhance their direct marketing services: recipients of interactive emails can write reviews, shop and […]
View More Salesforce acquires Rebel, maker of ‘interactive’ email services, to expand its Marketing CloudProtesters call on Salesforce to end contract with border patrol agency
A dozen or so people accompanied by a 14-foot, 800-pound cage gathered in downtown San Francisco Tuesday morning to protest Salesforce’s contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Today is the first day of Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual user conference that […]
View More Protesters call on Salesforce to end contract with border patrol agencyWith MuleSoft in fold, Salesforce gains access to data wherever it lives
When Salesforce bought MuleSoft last spring for the tidy sum of $6.5 billion, it looked like money well spent for the CRM giant. After all, it was providing a bridge between the cloud and the on-prem data center and that was a huge missing link for a company with big ambitions like Salesforce. When you […]
View More With MuleSoft in fold, Salesforce gains access to data wherever it livesSalesforce wants to end customer service frustration with Customer 360
How many times have you called into a company, answered a bunch of preliminary questions about the purpose of your call, then found that those answers didn’t make their way to the CSR who ultimately took your call. This usually is because System A can’t talk to System B and it’s frustrating for the caller, […]
View More Salesforce wants to end customer service frustration with Customer 360Salesforce, AWS expand partnership with secure data sharing between platforms
Salesforce and Amazon’s cloud arm, AWS, have had a pretty close relationship for some time, signing a $400 million deal for infrastructure cloud services in 2016, but today at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s massive customer conference taking place this week in San Francisco, they took it to another level. The two companies announced they were offering a […]
View More Salesforce, AWS expand partnership with secure data sharing between platformsSalesforce partners with Apple to roll deeper into mobile enterprise markets
Apple and Salesforce are both highly successful, iconic brands, who like to put on a big show when they make product announcements. Today, the two companies announced they were forming a strategic partnership with an emphasis on mobile strategy ahead of Salesforce’s enormous customer conference, Dreamforce, which starts tomorrow in San Francisco. For Apple, which is […]
View More Salesforce partners with Apple to roll deeper into mobile enterprise marketsOn-demand trucking app Convoy raises $185M at $1B valuation
CapitalG, the growth equity arm of Alphabet, has led the $185 million round in Convoy, its first investment in the Seattle-based tech-enabled trucking network. The round brings Convoy’s total raised to $265 million and values the company at $1 billion. New investors T. Rowe Price and Lone Pine Capital participated in the financing alongside existing […]
View More On-demand trucking app Convoy raises $185M at $1B valuationEinstein Voice gives Salesforce users gift of gab
Salespeople usually spend their days talking. They are on the phone and in meetings, but when it comes to updating Salesforce, they are back at the keyboard again typing notes and milestones, or searching for metrics about their performance. Today, Salesforce decided to change that by introducing Einstein Voice, a bit of AI magic that […]
View More Einstein Voice gives Salesforce users gift of gab