Salesforce.com signs on to White House job-training initiative

San Francisco-based cloud software company Salesforce.com Inc on Thursday said it was joining a White House initiative to provide training for new skills to U.S. workers. The company, which makes Internet-based software used by the sales and marketing departments of businesses, said it would provide online training for up to 500,000 workers to get jobs that involve Salesforce’s software systems. The White House’s “Pledge to America’s Workers” initiative was launched last year, with more than 200 companies participating in the program.