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    Oracle buying Taleo for $US1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP 10 February, 2012 00:28:00

    Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.
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    Salesforce.com shakes up Standard support plan features 09 February, 2012 08:37:34

    Salesforce.com has made a series of changes to its support services that include the removal of certain features from the Standard tier, but which the company says overall will provide a better experience for customers.
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    Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch 09 February, 2012 00:03:28

    Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.
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    SAP unveils HANA in-memory database offerings for SMBs 08 February, 2012 03:47:56

    SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite.
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    Appeals court denies Google bid to keep email out of Oracle trial 07 February, 2012 07:10:42

    Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.
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    SAP community portal launch date still unclear due to bugs 07 February, 2012 03:45:06

    Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date.
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    Microsoft to roll out wave of native mobile apps for its CRM software 07 February, 2012 01:08:28

    Microsoft is gearing up to release a phalanx of native mobile applications for its CRM software, with clients aimed at BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, iOS, and Android 2.2 and higher devices, the company announced Monday.
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    Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans 04 February, 2012 06:08:52

    Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
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    SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation 03 February, 2012 02:12:19

    SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
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    SEC investigating past JDA's past fiscal years, stock falls 02 February, 2012 04:13:32

    JDA Software's stock is taking a hit after the supply-chain application vendor said Tuesday that it experienced a loss in the fourth quarter and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is requesting information about past fiscal years.
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    Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing 01 February, 2012 12:26:04

    Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately.
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