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.
The outfit does real-time shared web browsing, a slick answer apparently to the cumbersome WebEx.
The start-up’s page on CrunchBase says, “All 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.”
It 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.