Web Cms News & Articles

Google has announced the acquisition of social mapping app Waze for an undisclosed amount, and for now, the Isreal based development team will remain in place, a company blog post noted.

Open source CMS vendor eZ Systems has relaeasd version 5.1 of its eZ Publish plaftorm, a minor update that includes the Symfony2 PHP Web framework, and a complete set of APIs.

Lately it seems like our OpenText focus is on its information management approach. But this enterprise software vendor hasn't lost its edge in the web experience world as we'll see today with Web Experience Management 8.5.

Mobile devices and always on broadband connections make collaboration more seamless than ever, and now businesses are discovering there is a link between enabling those seamless experiences and keeping their best employees.

Companies so often have a roster of contact emails hidden in their database, and startup datafu.se is offering to tap into those emails by linking them to their owners' social media profiles.

Oracle and Salesforce compete for enterprise customers, and now it looks like they are competing for executive talent because Salesforce has just hired Keith Block, a former Oracle executive, as its president and vice chairman.

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Nearly 60% of American adults own smartphones, a Pew Research report has found, a number that has gone up by about two thirds in only two years.

Yellowfin, a business intelligence and analytics firm, has released version 6.3 of its flagship product, and its social and collaborative features, what it calls the Timeline, could be the future of analytics dashboards.

Testing a website for varying designs and layouts is a key way to figure out what is most enticing to visitors, but optimization vendor SiteSpect has decided that is no longer enough, and has debuted a tool to test how a site works as well.

DataSift, an enterprise social data company, has added Instagram, Facebook Page and Google+ data to its managed data offering, and partnered with analytics and visualization vendor Tableau on data integration.

GX Software has launched its GX WebManager 10 system, codenamed XperienCentral, in North America and Europe, and it's the company's first foray into personalization and addressing business needs around tailored customer experiences.

A new generation of online buyers is racking up huge tabs, but many B2B websites are now creaking and groaning under the pressure to keep up with the buying habits of those under 35, the so called Generation Y.

Ektron has joined the list of WCM providers offering a hosted version of its own web content management platform.

Google+ is now more popular than Twitter among social networks in the US, according to a survey of 2,500 people by an ad firm called Burst Media.

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