Cisco acquires collaboration software vendor Versly

Cisco has announced that they’ve acquired San Francisco-based Versly, a privately-held collaboration software vendor. Versly develops tools that integrate with Microsoft Office, allowing users to collaboratively develop documents using the tools they’re familiar with. “Collaboration is a top priority at Cisco. With this acquisition we’re enhancing our collaboration offerings and improving the user experience by [...]

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Jive Software files Form S-1 for proposed IPO

Jive Software, the company behind the Jive Engage Platform, has filed their Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. will act as lead joint book-running managers for the offering, and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. [...]

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Free Sentiment Analysis API from Viralheat

Enterprise social media start-up Viralheat provides corporations with the ability to understand what users are saying about them on every corner of the social media world, from Facebook, to Twitter, to Youtube. To encourage 3rd party development using the platform, Viralheat offers free access to their Sentiment Analysis API, allowing up to 5,000 connections. Interested? [...]

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Enteprise mobile apps developer Taptera raises $2M from Salesforce, angel investors

Enterprise mobile applications developer Taptera, which creates iPhone and iPad apps intended for corporate audiences, has raised $2M in Series A financing. Investors include Salesforce.com and angels such as Terence Garnett (former Oracle exec), M.R. Rangaswami, David Murphy (former HP exec). (Via Tech Crunch)

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Yammer integrates Salesforce.com into activity feed

Enterprise microblogging service Yammer has integrated data from CRM solution Salesforce.com into their product. Yammer will now retrieve content that Salesforce.com is able to export, such as customer leads and sales data, and display that into Yammer activity feeds. There, users can interact with the Salesforce.com information just like any other Yammer microblog post. Important [...]

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