Salesforce has updated and rebranded its Communities product, now known as Salesforce1 Community Cloud. This extends the functionality of communities, and sharpens the competition with other enterprise social network vendors, like… Read more »
Steven Rosenbush and Clint Boulton of the Wall Street Journal did some interesting analysis of the social business — or work technologies — market recently, and determined that various analysis firms… Read more »
It’s hard to beat free and Jive Software must contend with bigger rivals that bundle social networking with their software suites as well as a flock of mobile-first competitors. Read more »
I got an interesting email from an old friend, Tris Hussey, telling me that he is working for a start-up called Nugg as the director for customer success, and inviting me… Read more »
Intercom has raised $23 million in a series B round led by Bessemer and joined by The Social+Capital Partnership, which has been widely reported. The company has positioned itself in a great and… Read more »
Ashlee Vance is reporting that Dropbox looking to raise $250 million on an $8 billion valuation, trying to fuel its new push into the enterprise. This is a turn that will require… Read more »
Do.com, the ‘prosumer’ task manager that Salesforce launched in November 2011, is being quietly shut down: This may be part of a strategic retreat from attempting to compete on prosumer applications… Read more »
Bloomberg has had serious messaging market dominance for the traders and funds managers whose companies pay the $20,000/year for Bloomberg’s terminals and related services. But the industry has many others that… Read more »
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will be launched for Android on September 21 and iPhone on September 22. The long-awaited (see BlackBerry announces BBM for iOS and Android this summer), and perhaps way too late BBM… Read more »