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CFO of salesforce.com inc. Graham Smith sells 1,135 shares of CRM on 11/27/2009 at an average price of $61.47 a share.

According to Gartner, worldwide CRM market revenue was up 12.5% to $9.15 billion in 2008, and Salesforce.com continues to rise rapidly with a 10.6% share.

Hey there, Word. How're things? Seems like you're doing okay. I hear you have a new release coming shortly, in Office 2010.

From high-flying Internet pioneer to movie punchline: AOL's nadir may have come when Nicole Kidman's character in the 2004 remake of "The Stepford Wives" asks a group of husbands of robotic spouses where they work.

Yesterday I spent the day at TechCrunch's 'Real Time Crunch-up'. This despite having no idea what a 'Crunch-up' actually is.

Close WSJ Blogs November 19, 2009, 10:27 AM ET By Scott Austin This morning's roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web: Art by Mike Lucas The Venture-Backed Nine - Venture capitalists have another IPO to cheer about as computer-network security company Fortinet Inc.

Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. , a global provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions , today announced that it has signed a contract with Tecan AG, the market leader in automated laboratory storage and logistics systems, for the supply of Magic Software's iBOLT business and process integration suite.

Wednesday will be remembered more for incompetent visually impaired Swedish officials and Messieur "Thieving" Henry than any price action on the markets.

Salesforce.com's flamboyant announcement of Chatter has catapulted social computing to the forefront of discussion among enterprise thought leaders.

Salesforce plans to begin selling the new software, called Chatter, in February.

Investors turned cautious Wednesday as an unexpected drop in home construction and disappointing forecasts from technology companies raised concerns about the pace of the economy's recovery.

Tags: Application Service Provider , Software As A Service , Hosted Software , Wall Street , Saas , ASP , Why It's Important : A small revolution has taken place over the past two years in the way capital markets firms, especially buy-side firms, buy and use software.

Salesforce.com's challenge will be to convince even more CIOs and developers that it's no longer just a CRM company.

U.S. stocks followed the technology sector lower Wednesday after a spate of weak earnings reported in the sector, an exceptional sour note as the broader earnings season wound down.

Stock prices were slightly lower Wednesday after the Commerce Department reported a bigger decline than expected in new home construction in October.

So, salesforce.com's yearly fest of force-feeding the loyal - " Dreamforce 09 - " has come to an end.

MarketTools Introduces Zoomerang Surveys For Salesforce -- Leading Online Survey Application Integrates Seamlessly with Salesforce, Bringing a New Level of Customer Insight and Collaborative Intelligence to Salesforce CRM Users SAN FRANCISCO, November 17, 2009 -- MarketTools, Inc., the leading provider of Customer Insight Management solutions, ...

Filed under: Earnings reports , salesforce.com inc In tech circles, you will hear lots about "cloud computing." Essentially, this means that software applications are operated through Internet connections -- and processed in huge data centers.

SAN FRANCISCO: BMC Software has teamed up with Salesforce.com to offer an IT service desk solution on the Force.com platform.

Give salesforce.com credit. No one names a conference better. At this year's Dreamforce confab, CEO Marc Benioff took the wrappers off a cloud-based collaboration system called Chatter .