Cloud Computing: Salesforce Buys ChoicePass to Shut It Down
June 25, 2012
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
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.
Its 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.
It said that "Since launching our Perks product, we’ve 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."…
It got as far as fielding an Android app last month and was supposed to turn out an iPhone and iPad app next.
Terms are unknown. According to TechCrunch, Yammer CEO David Sacks, Badoo COO Ben Ling, ShopCo CEO Ben Smith and PowerSet founder Lorenzo Thione were invested in the San Francisco fledging.
Late last year Salesforce bought Rypple pushing into HR and employee performance.