By a variety of measures, technology is the place to be in this modest economic recovery. In a poll IT job site Dice released in June, 73 percent of IT-focused recruiters and hiring managers said their companies will add more…
The mobile apps Sunwise UV Index, which predicts the UV intensities in a four-day weather forecast, and AirNow, which provides air pollution and ozone forecasting are two popular public mobile applications from the Environmental Protection Agency. But the EPA also…
Among the scrappy Web 2.0 startups taking part in Google’s recent OpenSocial announcement, Salesforce.com kind of stood out. Salesforce.com already has a proprietary development language and platform, Apex, launched in January. It also hasAppExchange, an easy and successful way for…
In 1980, Bill Gates had a brilliant idea: make a fortune providing the operating system platform for the first PCs and let others build applications on top of it. In 2006, Marc Benioff has the same idea. On Tuesday, salesforce.com…
Online merchants had a great holiday shopping season. But they’d better watch out: Customer satisfaction is dropping. That’s the verdict of two separate reports released on Tuesday. The e-tailing group and ForeSee Results both found evidence that online merchants could…
With online ads set to take an even bigger bite of the media pie in 2006, interactive media powerhouse Yahoo wants to show clients just how well it works. Thanks to a partnership announced Friday, Yahoo’s account executives will begin…
Don’t you hate it when your new CRM application crashes your system? Enterprises using Salesforce.com’s hosted applications will soon be able to crash-test their deployments without fear by using Sandbox, an optional service expected this quarter. Customers can use Sandbox…
Yahoo Shopping introduced “social commerce” in time for the holiday shopping season. Yahoo (Quote, Chart) calls its new offering the “Shoposphere”; like the blogosphere, it aims to be a world where users connect and link in multiple ways. Forrester Research…
A new company announced its launch on Tuesday, offering a sales compensation management application on demand. Xactly will provide Xactly Incent on the software-as-service model to automate the process of setting and calculating sales commissions. The service is designed for…
Online sales are booming. But even the top-grossing e-tailers may be leaving money on the table, a study reported on Wednesday.“You can have strong online revenues but if you’re not engaging site visitors in the way they want, you are…