As Erick wrote last week, SecondMarket, the marketplace for alternative investments, has been seeing quite a bit of activity of late. In fact, SecondMarket’s private stock transactions in the first three quarters of 2011 totaled $435 million, a 73 percent increase over the same period last year. SecondMarket lays out all these stats and more [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2011 by admin
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Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the current landscape of the cloud for the first time since the public back-and-forth between himself and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. For those unfamiliar, earlier this month, Ellison cancelled Benioff’s keynote talk at The Oracle OpenWorld [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by admin
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“We’re at an inflection point”, eBay CEO John Donahoe said from the stage at Innovate, eBay’s brand new developer conference that launched today in San Francisco. “We’ll see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we’ve seen in the last 15 years”. Donahoe’s prediction for the future came [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2011 by admin
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Yammer, an enterprise social network and communications platform, has raised $17 million in new funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya. Previous investors Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participated in the round. Palihapitiya will have an observer’s seat on Yammer’s [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2011 by admin
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Zimbra, the email and collaboration software that was sold by Yahoo to VMware earlier this year, is debuting the newest version of its SaaS-based email client today. Zimbra 2.0 includes desktop functionality, designed to give users offline access to their email, contacts, calendar and document management features in one place. You can also download Zimbra’s [...]
Posted on October 14th, 2010 by admin
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Marin Software, a startup that creates search engine management software for advertisers and agencies, is now offering advanced applications for advertising on Facebook. Marin’s Search Marketer platform now offers advertisers and agencies the ability to manage Facebook Ads alongside paid search programs on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Advanced solutions for Facebook include algorithmic bidding, audience [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2010 by admin
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Social recruiting is all the rage right now when it comes to finding new employees to hire. Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti recently told me about a simple but effective way his company is using Facebook ads to hire people. Facebook ads are highly targetable. Citysearch puts up an ad with a picture of the hiring [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by admin
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As Facebook increasingly becomes a channel for brands to interact with consumers, it makes sense for companies to tap into the social network to manage customer support. Salesforce’s Service Cloud, Get Satisfaction and a host of others have launched deep integrations with Facebook to allow companies to engage with the 400 million plus consumers on [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2010 by admin
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Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, was just integrated as a partner in Google’s recently launched Google Apps Marketplace. At last year’s TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its enterprise-friendly, FriendFeed-like layer for Google Apps. The web-based [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he responds to critics of his last guest post arguing that enterprise software should be more like Facebook. Two weeks ago on TechCrunch I posted “The Facebook Imperative,” which posed a simple question, “Why isn’t all enterprise software [...]
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by admin
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