Salesforce Reaches Deal to Buy Cloud-Application Builder MuleSoft

Salesforce.com Inc. CRM 0.11% is buying MuleSoft Inc. MULE 27.16% in a deal valuing the firm at $6.5 billion as Salesforce adds technology to help customers tap data from older computer systems as they move to the cloud. MuleSoft’s web-based service, Anypoint, lets developers connect multiple sources of data that run …