Sunday, February 5th, 2012 5:18 pm

Salesforce buys Jigsaw to move to Cloud 2

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Salesforce.com announced that it entered into a definite agreement to acquire Jigsaw, an online business directory, for about $142 million. "The combination of Jigsaw and salesforce.com will allow companies to easily find, purchase and manage data that is seamlessly integrated with their CRM apps," Salesforce.com said in press release. "With Jigsaw and [...]

Amazon extends Cloud Computing service

Seattle (ip-192.com): Amazon announced a limited beta version of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service, which connects a company's existing computing resources and Amazon's cloud as if they were part of one data center. Companies can use a Virtual Private Cloud to move corporate applications, including e-mail, financial systems and CRM applications, into the Amazon [...]