Salesforce.com to buy Clipboard, shutting down service

May 10, 2013

Salesforce.com is to acquire Clipboard, a Web clipping and sharing service, and is closing down the service.Clipboard decided to shut down the service as "it was essential to focus on a singular platform for building new capabilities within Salesforce, which is not something that we could do while keeping Clipboard operating," the company in Bellevue, Washington, said on its website on Thursday.The Clipboard service and its apps and extensions will be discontinued on June 30. Until then, existing users of Clipboard will be able to export their clips for offline use. User data will be deleted a week after the final date of service.Existing users will still be able to create, view and organize their clips until the discontinuation of service, but Clipboard will not accept any new user registrations. In nearly two years, 140,000 users created nearly 3 million clips using the service, while over a million interacted with them, Clipboard said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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