Salesforce.com acquires ExactTarget for $2.5bn

Danny Palmer
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Biggest ever acquisition by Salesforce.com is the eighth in a year

Salesforce.com has purchased cloud marketing platform ExactTarget in a deal worth $2.5bn (£1.6bn) as it looks to adapt to a world in which mobile devices and social networks are increasingly used. ...

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