January 18th, 2013

Yammer Competitor Jostle.me Raises $3.1M For Enterprise Sharing Platform Anchored By Pictures, Not Text

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Yammer competitor Jostle.me has raised $3.1 million from a group of angel investors.  The company has raised $4.6 million to date, all from private individuals. It has 52 shareholders, including most employees who work for the company and its directors. → Read More

October 25th, 2012

Drupal Company Acquia Launches New Cloud Media Management Service

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Acquia was founded by Dries Buytaert, the creator of the open source content management system Drupal, to monetize the project offering hosting and support. Today the company launched a beta of a new service called Acquia Media Cloud and released a new version of Drupal Commons, a distribution of Drupal that comes bundled with a set of addons for building community sites. → Read More

October 4th, 2012

Autodesk Acquires Social Collaboration Company Qontext

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Today Autodesk, best known for its AutoCAD product, announced that it has acquired enterprise social networking company Qontext from the India-based incubator Pramati. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. → Read More

September 18th, 2012

Salesforce.com To Announce Cross-Company Instant Messaging For Chatter

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Salesforce.com will announce new features for its “Facebook for enterprise” service Chatter this week at its annual Dreamforce conference. CEO Marc Benioff already revealed during his TechCrunch Disrupt fireside chat that the company is adding a Box/Dropbox-style file-sharing system called ChatterBox. Now I’m hearing from multiple sources that Chatter will also be getting secure cross-company… → Read More