{"id":2310,"date":"2012-06-25T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2302667"},"modified":"2012-06-25T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T18:44:00","slug":"cloud-computing-salesforce-buys-choicepass-to-shut-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-salesforce-buys-choicepass-to-shut-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Salesforce Buys ChoicePass to Shut It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce has bought SMB-focused corporate perks and employee rewards management start-up ChoicePass a year after the outfit drummed up $250,000 in seed money.<br \/>\nIts site will be shut down on June 30 and the team that put the operation together sucked up into Salesforce according to an official blog posting.<br \/>\nIt said that \u201cSince launching our Perks product, we\u2019ve found that there is massive demand from businesses for innovative ways to manage employee engagement, rewards and incentives. It has been an amazing experience for us to work with such great companies, partners and of course, people.\u201d<br \/>\nIt got as far as fielding an Android app last month and was supposed to turn out an iPhone and iPad app next. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2302667\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce has bought SMB-focused corporate perks and employee rewards management start-up ChoicePass a year after the outfit drummed up $250,000 in seed money.<br \/>\nIts site will be shut down on June 30 and the team that put the operation together sucked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}