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Intel embraces social networks in phases

News Social workforce is about being open and leveraging "wisdom of crowds", where small work groups aren't conducive for collaboration, says Intel exec.

Monday, September 14 2009 04:18 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Corporate culture, Personnel management, Best strategies, Generation Y, Intel Corp., Workforce, IT Security, Tool, social networking tool

User community growing influence on business

News As social networks play increasingly important role in a company's growth strategy, so will their impact on how business policies are formed, say experts.

Thursday, March 26 2009 02:28 PM

Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Privacy, Customer support, Best strategies, User Community, Social Media, Privacy Policy, Terms Of Service, business strategy

Security fears stifle business innovation

News Survey shows 80 percent of business and security professionals say their firms back away from innovation due to information security concerns.

Tuesday, October 14 2008 07:44 PM

Tags: Security, Competitive advantage, Best strategies, Innovation, India, Information Security, Innovation, RSA Security Inc., IT security, managing director

Google up, Microsoft down in November Web searches

News Web searches rise again for Google in November and drop again for Microsoft as U.S. searches overall increase, Nielsen says.

Tuesday, January 06 2009 09:22 AM

Tags: Web sites, Search, Best strategies, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Search, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Live, Yahoo! Inc., News.com

It's official: Bartz becomes Yahoo CEO

News Autodesk's executive chairman now has replaced Jerry Yang. Also: Yahoo President Sue Decker has departed.

Wednesday, January 14 2009 06:20 AM

Tags: Search, Best strategies, Autodesk Inc., Yahoo! Inc., chairman, CEO, News.com, leader, Jerry Yang, leadership style

Ballmer and Bostock break bread

News The New York Times confirms a Valleywag report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock met earlier this week in New York.

Monday, January 19 2009 08:14 AM

Tags: Search, Best strategies, Employee communications, Mergers, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., New York, chairman, CEO

Wikimedia Foundation: Jimmy Wales 'absolutely' not out

News Valleywag reported Saturday that the Wikipedia founder was out at the foundation that runs the Web-based encyclopedia. But the foundation strongly disputes it.

Sunday, January 04 2009 01:56 PM

Tags: Web sites, Best strategies, Business plans, Wikipedia, Jimmy, RFC, e-mail, job, News.com, founder

Telcos 'struggle' to stay competitive

News Carriers worldwide face growing challenge as customer demand changes and new government policies are introduced, finds new Gartner report.

Thursday, April 16 2009 05:07 PM

Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Best strategies, Corporate culture, Wireless Broadband, Carrier, Gartner Inc., investment strategy, research company, recession, financial

Samsung wants 30 percent of Thai handset pie

News Samsung has set itself an ambitious target of capturing a 30 percent share in the mobile handset market in Thailand on sales revenue of US$257 million this year.

Tuesday, January 13 2009 09:13 AM

Tags: Handhelds, Best strategies, Business plans, Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Sales strategy, Sales, Korean company, mobile handset, Forecasting

SAP user benchmark tests get underway

News The business software provider and its European users have launched a benchmarking scheme to measure the performance of its services, a precursor to proposed increases in prices for support.

Tuesday, July 07 2009 12:37 PM

Tags: Investor relations, Best strategies, Server platforms, SAP AG, CPU, Europe, KPI, business software company, performance, benchmarking

Microsoft gets 10,000th patent

News After five years of pushing for more patents, Microsoft has finally broken into five digits when it comes to the number of U.S. patents issued.

Wednesday, February 11 2009 07:14 AM

Tags: Patents, Best strategies, Benefits, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Patent, Online Game, Computer, Worker, Microsoft Surface

Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat

News Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will "change the consciousness of the industry" to do it.

Friday, May 09 2008 09:36 AM

Tags: Business applications, Customer support, Best strategies, Sales force management, Marc Benioff, Server, PaaS, performance, software, journalist