{"id":2563,"date":"2012-07-10T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2310926"},"modified":"2012-07-10T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:50:00","slug":"cloud-computing-salesforce-to-buy-goinstant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-salesforce-to-buy-goinstant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Salesforce to Buy GoInstant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce.com is going to buy a two-year-old Nova Scotia start-up that just launched last September called GoInstant for a reported $76 million.<br \/>\nThe outfit does real-time shared web browsing, a slick answer apparently to the cumbersome WebEx.<br \/>\nThe start-up\u2019s page on CrunchBase says, \u201cAll participants that join a co-browse session can click, scroll, type and browse at the same time. Co-browsing does not require any downloads or plug-ins to work; all users need is a web browser. A co-browse session can be used to co-browse any web site for customer support, sales, e-commerce and training.\u201d<br \/>\nIt has 14 people and got $1.7 million in seeding from Freestyle Capital, Baseline Ventures, Greylock Partners, Social Leverage and folks like LinkedIn chair Reid Hoffman. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2310926\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce.com is going to buy a two-year-old Nova Scotia start-up that just launched last September called GoInstant for a reported $76 million.<br \/>\nThe outfit does real-time shared web browsing, a slick answer apparently to the cumbersome WebEx.<br \/>\nThe st&#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-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}