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Salesforce's "Facebook for the Enterprise"

Salesforce.com has introduced a new enterprise collaboration application called Salesforce Chatter. A representative for the company bills it as a "Facebook for the Enterprise."

Adobe Teams With Salesforce on New Flash Builder

Adobe and Salesforce.com have partnered to launch the Adobe Flash Builder for force.com, which Adobe says increases developer productivity for creating rich Internet applications in the cloud. The product can be used to enhance existing Salesforce CRM implementations and custom-built Force.com apps, or build new apps altogether.

Google Launches New Enterprise Search Features

Today Google announced two new tools for Enterprise Search - Side-By-Side search comparison and new connectors for the Google Search Appliance. Both of these features are available in Google Enterprise Labs. Side-By-Side Search Comparison

Salesforce Launches Mobile App Update for iPhone 3.0 OS

Salesforce announced today that its CRM mobile application has been updated to take advantage of the new iPhone 3.0 OS software. The 3.0 OS  update became available today (and has sparked quite a bit of conversation).

Salesforce Gives Force.com Users Free Sites

Salesforce has announced the general availability of Force.com Sites, which was demoed last year at the Dreamforce event. With it, companies can build and run any website on Salesforce's cloud platform Force.com, the same platform that runs the company's sales and service apps.

Tweeting for Customer Relationship Management

Salesforce.com has added Twitter support to its Service Cloud offering, which was released earlier in the year. Salesforce breaks down what companies can expect to get out of the service:

Data Portability and the Cloud

We've been hearing a lot these days about cloud computing and data portability. It only makes sense that we see some data portability through the cloud as well right? Confused yet? Think services like Facebook Connect combined with Google Apps.

Google Expands Another API

As mentioned previously, Google is spending a lot of time "in the clouds" so to sepak. They've been emphasizing cloud computing a lot lately, even going so far as to make a 99.9% guarantee with regarding to up-time for Google Apps.

Google, Salesforce Deal Doomed? Zoho Says So

Old line business models and the new Internet can't cohabitate, claims the guy who had a chance to sell Zoho to Salesforce's Marc Benioff.

Google, Salesforce Tie Up With Apps

In a move seen as a "take that Microsoft" deal, Google and Salesforce padded out a current collaboration deal by integrating its Google Apps within Salesforce.