It happens in any market that this issue arises: buy versus build yourself; the big add product lines by acquiring smaller companies. And the cloud is starting to pick up speed in the M&A game. The most recent example is Salesforce.com which is buying HR company Rypple. That’s on the heels of SAP getting ready to spend $3.4 billion to buy an HR cloud vendor, Success Factors, which itself just acquired Jobs2Web for $100 million. Read more...