Tag: Google

  • Salesforce.com Challenges Oracle in Database Market

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Salesforce — the world’s biggest maker of cloud-based software that its customers access over the Internet — announced its new Database.com service on Tuesday as it diversifies its lineup of software programs for businesses. The company has long generated the bulk of its revenue from selling software for managing corporate sales and marketing activities, but… Read more

  • Google Challenges Amazon, Apple in eReader Market

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    SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) began selling digital books on Monday, intensifying the search engine’s competition with Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and marking a significant push by the company to expand into the e-commerce business. The new online bookstore, dubbed Google eBooks, features 3 million titles, from newly… Read more

  • Google Apps Gets SAP StreamWork App

    Jessica Davis

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    Even as cloud-based upstart CRM rival Salesforce.com holds its Dreamforce conference this week in San Francisco, ERP stalwart SAP is making its own news in the cloud with giant Google. SAP and Google have announced that SAP StreamWork is now available in the Google Apps Marketplace. SAP Streamwork will work with OpenID, letting users login… Read more

  • Google Apps To Switch or Not to Switch

    Google Apps To Switch or Not to Switch

    Chris Talbot

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    Google Apps To Switch or Not to Switch Time for a refreshChoosing Google Apps just after you’ve made a significant hardware and software upgrade doesn’t make much sense. The right time to consider a change is when it’s time to refresh your organizations technology again. No Title PricingCohn said the difference in cost between Google… Read more

  • Electronic Wallet Technology Comes to Google Android

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    Nov 15 (Reuters) – Google Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) next version of its Android smartphone software will support a technology that lets people use their handsets, instead of credit cards, to pay for goods at restaurants and stores. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt showed off a yet-to-be-released phone on Monday with a special chip that allows consumers… Read more

  • Google, Yahoo to Get E-Mail Rival: Facebook

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    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Facebook rolled out an all-in-one messaging service that for the first time allows its half-billion members to communicate with people outside the social network, intensifying a battle with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) for users’ Internet time. Addressing speculation the world’s largest social networking site was planning… Read more