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The amount of tools available to users of file sharing platform Box has been added to with the company’s recent acquisition of Folders, an iOS cloud storage client.

Mobile app provider Thumb Labs has announced it's been acquired by Adobe, a move that the company hints is connected to its continued relationship with the Behance application.

More big data goodness on the IBM SmartCloud. This time, the result is an increase in the speed of reporting and analytics as well as the availability of SAP’s in-memory database the SAP High Performance Analytics Appliance (SAP HANA), and at the core of the announcement, its new BLU Acceleration technology.

Oracle may have outlined how the inability to break-down information silos was negating many of the positive benefits of the cloud yesterday, but today Forbes highlights yet again the business value of the cloud, particularly in facilitation with effective enterprise collaboration.

 While concerns over cloud deployments are now a thing of the past, the cloud is still proving difficult for many enterprises. In fact, new research form Oracle shows that the dual promise of business efficiency and IT agility is still eluding many enterprises.

Mobile security is one of IT’s biggest headaches, especially in this age of Bring-Your-Own-Device. To help out, online storage/content sharing service Box has undertaken a new partnership with mobile security provider MobileIron and launched a new mobile app, Box for MobileIron AppConnect. 

Voice search in Google's Chrome browser now features hands free search by saying the phrase, "Okay, Google."

Once a year, Google throws its I/O developers conference, and day one in 2013 featured plenty of updates about the company's most popular search, mobile and cloud products including a hands free voice search feature for laptops and desktops.

Following the acquisition of StreamOnce, which was announced in the Q1 earnings at the end of April, Jive Software has already started releasing products around the buy. Today, it announces the release of StreamOnce that ultimately will bring a whole pile of major business applications into a single place.

Sharing files in the cloud is now possible in the Salesforce Chatter Mobile app for iOS, and a new day has dawned for mobile teams using iPads and iPhones to get work done away from their offices.

Just in time for its Sapphire Now conference this week, SAP has released a deluge of product and partnership updates including the debut of HANA Enterprise Cloud and HANA powered OpenText for SAP Solutions.

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Sales teams for Microsoft's Yammer social network will join up with the Office 365 team, the company has announced, all the more easy to integrate the two technologies.

Someday, a study will determine if business teams have become more -- or less -- collaborative because of all of the enterprise collaboration software now available. Another one emerged this week, with Japan-based ChatWork announcing the official entry into the U.S. market of its cloud collaboration solution. 

It can’t be easy to call on customers who have a bone (or two) to pick with you. But EMC IIG (a.k.a. Documentum) President Rick Devenuti has spent the last five years doing exactly that … listening to their complaints, apologizing that his predecessor ignored their needs, promising to address their concerns, and asking for their patience while he built solutions that would not only meet their needs but also delight them. 

Another milestone in the gradual upgrade of Office 365 -- SharePoint Online is finally out of preview. Although Microsoft doesn’t say when users will be able to get the new version, it does say that it will be soon and that users will be given notice of four weeks before they have to upgrade.