Editor’s note: Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, really loves Japan. And if you are a startup founder or tech executive, he thinks you should too. He explains why in this guest post, culled from observations from his most recent visit.
Thousands of people lined up last week to buy iPads. And, if [...]
Posted on June 12th, 2010 by admin
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Spiceworks, a startup that develops Web-connected social IT management software, has hit a significant milestone today: 1 million users. According to Spiceworks, that means 1 in 5 IT professionals in the world’s SMBs (fewer than 1,000 employees) use Spiceworks.
Spiceworks develops a desktop software suite that helps a company’s IT staff collaborate with each [...]
Posted on June 2nd, 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 [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by admin
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Cloud-based software company SuccessFactors has acquired CubeTree, a startup that creates a social software for businesses. According to the release, SuccessFactors is acquiring the company for $20 million plus a contingent cash payment three years from closing to bring the value of the total consideration to $50 million. The deal is expected to close in [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2010 by admin
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Oil and gas
industry professionals in Asia Pacific lead the industry in the use of social media
and collaboration tools at work, reports a recent Microsoft Corp. and Accenture
survey, with three out of four respondents from that region saying social media
tools improve their work performance.
The
Microsoft and Accenture “Oil & Gas Collaboration Survey 2010” – that polled
275 professionals [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by admin
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In November 2009, when Microsoft announced the release of the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010, the company also introduced an entirely new add-on for its Outlook product that we haven’t heard a peep about since.
That’s about to change soon.
The product, dubbed Outlook Social Connector, essentially aims to make Outlook more social by integrating [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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Online productivity suite Zoho has been open to allowing users to use their Google, Google Apps and Yahoo accounts to log-in to Zoho Apps. Zoho says that most of its users are using their log-ins for other applications to use Zoho’s offerings. Today, the productivity suite is adding a social layer to its suite by [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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