Salesforce.com to Buy Web Monitor Radian6 for $340 Million

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Salesforce.com Inc., the largest supplier of customer-management software, agreed to buy Radian6 Technologies Inc. for about $340 million in cash and stock to add software that lets companies keep abreast of the social Web.

The price includes $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock, Salesforce said today in a statement. Radian6 tracks what’s being said about companies and their products on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.