Bloomberg has released an interview with Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff. Benioff shared an anecdote of how Apple chairman Steve Jobs gave him advice about Enterprise Software.

Salesforce.com, Inc. (Public, NYSE:CRM) has bought social media monitoring company Radian6 for $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock. The company will also be given $10 million in stock and $4 million in cash to Radian6′s founders subject to vesting conditions over the next 2 years. Radian6′s software helps clients like Dell, GE, Kodak, etc. monitor hundreds of millions of social media conversations. Salesforce plans on enhancing their software products like Sales Cloud, Chatter, etc.

Yammer is a company that has developed internal social media applications for companies. It is like a “Facebook for business.” However Salesforce.com built a similar service called Chatter and they even bought a Super Bowl commercial for it. Interestingly Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff praised Yammer at the TechCrunch50 conference before launching Chatter. Check out the video above. [BusinessInsider]

Salesforce.com has launched a new service called Database.com. Database.com has a plug-and-play storage infrastructure that works with any language, platform, or device.

JP Rangaswami is becoming the chief scientist of Salesforce.com. Rangaswami was the chief scientist at BT Group. Rangaswami will work on the product strategy at Salesforce.com and will serve as a cloud computing evangelist. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said Rangaswami has “the rare talent of being able to see what the future should be, knowing what it takes to get there, and the enthusiasm to make it happen.” [ZDNet]

Causes is an online philanthropy service that was started by Joe Green and Sean Parker. Causes recently raised $9 million in Series C funding from Founders Fund, Marc Benioff, Dustin Moskovitz, Karl Jacob, Keith Rabois, and Ron Conway. Scott Sandell will also be joining as an observer on the Causes board of directors. Green said that the company plans to use the funding for building their team.

Disney has acquired Tapulous. Tapulous is the company behind the Tap Tap Revenge game series founded by Bart Decrem. Decrem and COO Andrew Lacy will join Disney as VPs. Tapulous raised a total of $1.8 million from angel investors Marc Benioff, Jeff Clavier, Andy Bechtolsheim, and the late Rajeev Motwani. It is likely that Tapulous will be rolled into Disney Interactive Studios, the subsidiary that creates Disney games for Xbox, the PS3, etc. [TechCrunch]

Enterprise CRM company Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) has announced the availability of their new social network for companies service called Chatter. Salesforce announced Chatter this past November and gave a small number of testers access to it.