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Social innovation, meet social business intelligence. Social innovator Spigit has acquired business intelligence provider Crowdcast, which Spigit said will help it transform innovation into “a predictable discipline with business rigor”.
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There’s a new social business platform on the market. The software-as-a-service (Saas) QŪEsocial offers what the company said is a “social business tool that extends beyond marketing and outside the firewall” to help companies gauge their social interactions against business performance.
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Pinterest is changing its invitation only policy and is now offering open registration to anyone who wants to join. The “online pinboard” is allowing new users to register via Facebook and Twitter logins as well as personal email addresses.
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Liferay has released a new community edition (CE) version of its two-year old social collaboration solution, Social Office. Liferay has made major changes in Social Office 2.0 CE: it’s no longer a separate product and includes a long list of new features like microblogging, hashtags and integrated activity streams.
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Facebook is upping its range of advertising possibilities. The popular social media site is testing Sponsored Results, which are ads that show up in the Facebook search area. This kind of advertising allows a company to potentially direct competitors’ traffic to its offerings.
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Pinterest has been locking user accounts due to suspicious activity, after a string of disappearing or changed user data.
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Google is introducing a whole new meaning to the word Takeout. Yes, it's about portability, and it has something to do with the company's fledgling (by some standards) social network Google+. With the new Google+ circles transfer tool on Google Takeout, Google+ users can now transfer data across multiple
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A new free, easy to use analytics app called Social Crawlytics can help find out what pages have been shared the most over social media, and all it requires is a Twitter account to log in.
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Facebook and Yahoo announced Friday they have settled their major patent dispute. The settlement will result in an expanded relationship between the companies, including a new advertising partnership and an agreement to extend and expand their distribution arrangements.
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Can the user behaviors that power social networks be used to achieve business goals? Gamification vendor Badgeville thinks so, and on Wednesday the company released its Social Mechanics to do just that.
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Global car leasing company LeasePlan, with more than 6,100 employees spread across 38 different units in 30 countries, enables its workers to engage in social business collaboration using a platform based on IBM Connection.
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Facebook has a new Face -- and it can recognize yours. On Monday, the social networking giant announced that it had agreed to acquire Face.com, which provides the face-recognition technology used by Facebook. The terms of the deal, which had been rumored since May, were not announced.
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Social in the enterprise is not so much about sharing, but more about getting work done. That is what DoubleDutch Pride,a new free mobile enterprise collaboration app is designed to do. Mobile Productivity “It’s about productivity,” says Julia Graham, the marketing lead for DoubleDutch’s new mobile workgroup collaboration app,
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The change required to become a Social Business is huge. This process is not simply about implementing new social and collaborative tools. It's about a fundamental change to organizational culture.
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