Salesforce.com Just Handed These Two Programmers A Million Dollars (CRM)

Salesforce.com held a hackathon contest this week with the biggest cash payout ever: a $1 million grand prize. On Thursday it awarded the money to two developers who created a voice-activated app called Upshot. Upshot, built by Thom Kim and Joseph Turian, lets Salesforce.com users generate reports by asking their phones for them, reports TechCrunch's Alex Williams, who was also one of the judges for the event. A hackathon is when developers work non-stop to build something new. In this case, the...