Less than two weeks ago SAP bought human resources/human capital management software-as-a-service company SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion. Salesforce.com followed suit today with the purchase of Rypple, an employee performance management SaaS, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close April 30, 2012 . Rypple will then be relaunched as “Successforce” as part of ...

Capgemini will expand its focus on China, going so far as to dedicate some of its Indian workforce to bolster its Chinese operations, according to the Times of India. “Currently 5% of Capgemini’s revenues of about 8.7 billion euro come from emerging markets such as China, Brazil and India , and the aim is to ...

It’s been a good week for Portland startups. Jive Software, which is headquartered in Palo Alto but started in Portland and still has many employees here, launched its IPO. And now SurveyMonkey, another Portland startup, has acquired MarketTools, one if its biggest competitors. The combined company is now valued at $1 billion According to the ...

As the big data explosion continues and cloud, mobile and social change both customer and employee expectations many businesses struggle to determine how to navigate this new landscape. The role developers are playing in even non-software companies is also accelerating. To capitalize on these trends, consulting firm Deloitte is launching a new division called Deloitte ...

Earlier this year I wrote that Microsoft needed to open source something big. Even Apple, hardly a bastion of openness, had its Darwin and Webkit projects. Microsoft was talking to the open source talk, but other than a bunch of random ASP.NET stuff, it hadn’t really released much code. The problem was finding something Microsoft ...

BestVendor recently polled 500 developers around the world to ask them what tools they use, from IDEs to project management to frameworks to databases. It sheds light on trends in cloud storage, hosting and NoSQL adoption. Check it out below. Click here for larger version. A few things standout: MongoDB is the only NoSQL database ...

Microsoft may be gunning for the iPad with its future Windows 8 tablets, but in the mean time Redmond is beginning to roll out its signature productivity apps on the iPad. Microsoft released a OneNote app today, which will be followed by a Lync app, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports. Microsoft has already been offering ...

Microsoft announced an update to its Azure cloud service that adds support for developing on Azure using Node.js, among other new features and improvements Microsoft is also offering a limited preview of its Apache Hadoop service for Azure. Microsoft has been working with Node.js sponsor company Joyent to bring the server side JavaScript development system ...

HP will transform webOS into a platform with the goal of creating a world-class HTML5-browser that would potentially compete more with Chrome and Safari than Android or iOS. The strategy would put HP on a path to potentially extend Enyo and reach into the device market that may include printers and the broader Internet of ...

HP is open sourcing WebOS, the mobile operating system acquired from Palm last year for $1.2 billion, and Enyo, the development framework for the OS. WebOS has been widely praised yet has struggled to gain traction, in large part because its app ecosystem has always been paltry compared to iOS, Android and even BlackBerry. Will ...