Yahoo has concluded a $1.1bn (£725m) deal to acquire Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, which achieved revenues of just $13m (£8.56m) in its last financial year. The deal is the largest undertaken by ...
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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) introduced its 2013-2014 president, vice president, and four board members during the ACI Spring 2013 Convention in Minneapolis, Minn. last month. Anne M. Ellis was elected to serve as president of ...
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It became clear at Google I/O this week that Google is quietly but assuredly implementing CEO Larry Page's strategy to use Google+ to transform the entire Google experience. Without fanfare and with barely a mention of making products ...
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Apps, Google's flagship product for enterprise IT, had a minor presence at this week's I/O developer conference, but some announcements at the show and in prior weeks deserve attention from customers of the cloud email and collaboration ...
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IDG News Service - Forget Glass, self-driving cars or a smartwatch. Developers, not physical consumer products, were Google's darlings at the company's annual I/O conference this week. Google brands I/O as a conference for developers, and ...
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Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing ...
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Salesforce.com wants to simplify the way mobile users find, access and share files from its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application. A new version of the Chatter mobile application for iOS and Android tablets and ...
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A session on market insights at BlackBerry Live aimed at providing an overview, as well as an insider’s perspective, to developers about the future of BlackBerry 10 applications and what target audiences want. The session started ...
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Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive's suite with third-party systems. The add-on is based on technology Jive acquired when ...
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With the backing of its new parent company, Yammer more than tripled its revenue year on year in the quarter that ended in March. Sales of Yammer's cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software shot up 259 percent in Microsoft's ...
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US retail giant Target is rolling out a system that can offer customers discount vouchers over social networking sites in a bid to lure them back into bricks-and-mortar stores. The systems enables people to select the deals marketed to ...
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On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs. ...
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Facebook posted a revenue increase of 38% in the first quarter that was bolstered by broad engagement across the site, the company reported Wednesday. Revenue for the social networking company increased to $1.46 billion for the quarter ...
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Ninety per cent of passwords are vulnerable to hacking because even supposedly secure passwords typically share common characteristics. Because people are required to generate so many passwords with particular characteristics - at least ...
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Salesforce.com will next month begin shipping its Communities application, designed to let companies build external-facing social sites for interacting with their customers and partners. Communities uses the technology in ...
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