Salesforce.com to Buy Heroku for $212 Million

Salesforce.com to Buy Heroku for 2 Million

Salesforce.com announced this morning that it will buy Ruby application platform provider Heroku for 2 million. Heroku will compliment Salesforce.com's VMForce, a hosted plafform for Java. Ruby is one of the fastest growing programming languages on the web, and Heroku has been seeing rapid growth . In November of last year the company hosted 40,000 applications. Today, according to Salesforce ...

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Richard Desmond: Channel 5 Has Returned to Profit Ahead of Launch

Mimi Turner Less than six months after buying Channel 5, Express Newspapers and OK! Publisher Richard Desmond says the loss-making broadcaster has returned to operating profit ahead of its programming re-launch next month. read more

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