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Hootsuite Buys Brightkit For Gamefied Social Marketing Campaigns, Passes 10M Users
Hootsuite, a platform for businesses and individuals to manage social media campaigns across different networks that now has 10 million users in 175 countries, has made another acquisition to build out its platform. It has acquired BrightKit, a service that lets people customize social marketing campaigns with gamified elements like sweepstakes and other competitions. The terms of the deal… Read More
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Jared Leto Dishes On His Favorite Tech Investment
TechCrunch caught up with actor and singer Jared Leto today backstage at BoxWorks, the annual confab focused on Box’s enterprise file storage service. Leto had just taken part in the event’s keynote, which stretched north of two hours. Why would Leto, who won an academy award in 2013 for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club, take part in a technology conference? Simply put… Read More
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Jared Leto Is Surprise Guest At BoxWorks, Talks Digital Transformation
Musician and actor Jared Leto stopped by BoxWorks today and talked digital transformation in the entertainment industry, and in the ultimate act of sharing, he passed around his Oscar so people could take pictures with it. Leto has been in the music and movie industry for a long time and as he pointed out, back in the day, he couldn’t communicate directly with his audience. There was… Read More
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Box Pushes Its Office 365 Integration Into Beta
This morning at its BoxWorks event, cloud storage and file management company Box announced that its previously promised integration into Office 365 is now live in beta. The company also indicated that it is working to extend its integration into Office 365’s online tools, and, if possible, to Office for iPad. On stage at the conference, Box CEO Aaron Levie asked the audience to tweet… Read More
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Microsoft Partners Said To Test Windows 9 Ahead Of Public Release
Microsoft is expected to release a technical preview of Windows 9 on September 30. So if you were looking forward to getting your paws on the code, you have only four weeks left to wait. That is, if you are not a key Microsoft partner. According to NeoWin’s Brad Sams, Microsoft is currently providing some partners with access to the operating system ahead of the public. That’s not… Read More
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Google Doubles Down On Productivity With ‘Google For Work’ Rebrand
This morning at its San Francisco offices, Google announced a rebrand of its enterprise products, renaming the set of tools and productivity services ‘Google for Work.’ The new nomenclature will stretch across the company’s various business tools, with each service picking up a ‘for Work’ appendage — Google now vends Drive for Work, Search for Work, and… Read More
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LinkedIn Is Quietly Retiring Network Visualization Tool InMaps
A little autumn cleaning underway at LinkedIn. The company is quietly retiring InMaps, a tool that let you map out how your LinkedIn network looks. A notice on the InMaps homepage notes that today, September 1, is the last day for you to use it, and that it is being discontinued so that LinkedIn “can focus on developing new ways to visualize your professional network.” As of… Read More
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Windows XP’s Market Share Fell By Less Than 1% In August
According to Net Applications, Windows XP’s global desktop market share fell from 24.82 percent in July, to 23.89 percent in August. That’s just under one percentage point in a full month. At that pace, it will take more than two years for Windows XP’s market share to fully dissipate. Read More
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Vandrico Wants To Become The Wearables Platform For The Workplace
If you know about Vandrico, it’s probably because of the company’s cool wearables database we featured earlier this year. That was just a byproduct of Vandrico’s research, however. What the company is really about is bringing wearables into the workplace. HP Desperately Wants To Be Innovative Again
Let’s face it, HP was once the king of Silicon Valley, but over the last several years, the company has had issues due in part to the revolving door in the CEO office. While the company has finally gained some stability with Meg Whitman, the lack of consistent leadership has resulted in shifting priorities and changing strategies. And the products for which they were once so… Read More
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