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Today in Tech: Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion
June 26, 2012: 12:30 PM ETNews Corp. may split into two businesses; Apple employees respond to a recent New York Times Apple Store story.
News Corp. mulls splitting in two [THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]
The split would carve off News Corp.'s film and television businesses, including 20th Century Fox film studio, Fox broadcast network and Fox News channel from its newspapers, book publishing assets and education businesses. News Corp.'s publishing assets include The Wall Street Journal, the Times of London and the Australian newspaper, as well as HarperCollins book publishing.
The unedited Q&A: Apple retail employees respond to NYT's profile, share life from inside the Apple Store [9 to 5 MAC]
Over the weekend, The New York Times profiled Apple's retail operations and controversially touched upon Apple's retail employees. ... As you will read, some responses defend and agree with The New York Times, and some reflect it by praising Apple and the opportunities that the company has provided them. The common theme, though, is that many (not all, some completely agree with the NYT) employees seem to agree that Apple retail has provided them with incredible benefits and opportunities that set it apart (positively) from any other retail organization.
And the winner of the next social networking jackpot is... [WIRED]
Earlier this month, Salesforce.com spent $689 million to buy Buddy Media, which makes Facebook tools for interacting with customers. Oracle last month bought Virtue, which helps companies coordinate social network posts, for $300 million. And analysts expect acquisitions of "Facebook for business" plays to continue. So who will be next to score in the social-meets-business lottery? Here's a shortlist of top contenders...
How many computers to identify a cat? 16,000 [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
The research is representative of a new generation of computer science that is exploiting the falling cost of computing and the availability of huge clusters of computers in giant data centers. It is leading to significant advances in areas as diverse as machine vision and perception, speech recognition and language translation.
Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion [ZDNET]
Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to current Yammer CEO David Sacks, according to a Microsoft statement
Nexus 7: This is Google's new Nexus tablet [GIZMODO AUSTRALIA]
As rumoured, Google's going to announce a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7. According to the leak, it's built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB. The Nexus tablet will also feature NFC and run Google Wallet (probably only in the US) and Android Beam.
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Today in Tech: PayPal launches credit card reader
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* Digg founder Kevin Rose and the rest of his team from the mobile app incubator Milk are joining Google (GOOG). The move comes after the news that Milk was shutting down its one and only app, Oink. (AllThingsD)
* PayPal unveiled its new credit card reader and app, which will enter MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 16, 2012 6:30 AM ET -
Where social networking is headed next
Companies are generally slow to adopt new online tools consumers love. That has been true of social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. Until now.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- What do you get when you cross a buzzword like "social networking" with an eye-glazing term like "enterprise software"? A buzzkill -- in this case, one called "enterprise social networking."
As long as the web has been around, the consumer side of things MORE
Mar 5, 2012 11:36 AM ETPosted in: altimeter, charene li, Chatter, crm, enterprise social networks, esn, Jive, SalesForce, social networks, socialcast, Yammer -
Jive adds Facebook, Google and McAfee muscle to its board
Is the "Facebook for the office" company joining the rest of the Valley in cranking up the IPO machine?
FORTUNE -- Nothing says, "we plan to go public" more than when a startup bulks up its board with executives from brand-name companies. Software company Jive has just done that, with the addition of former McAfee (MFE) Chairman Chuck Robel, McAffee President David DeWalt, Facebook's VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger and MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Mar 30, 2011 4:13 PM ETPosted in: David DeWalt, Facebook, Google, Jive, Jonathan Heiliger, LinkedIn, McAfee, Salesforce.com, Sundar Pichai, Tony Zingale, Yammer -
Salesforce wins bet on the cloud, doubles down on social
Salesforce's Marc Benioff is turning to social products like Chatter to drive growth for tomorrow, even as enterprise adoption continues to bring in revenue today.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is the kind of guy who could sell customer relationship management software to Eskimos. But can he convince IT departments to buy into Chatter, his company's enterprise collaboration tool?
Benioff certainly thinks so. According to Salesforce.com's (CRM) recently released quarterly earnings report, he's MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 25, 2011 10:57 AM ETPosted in: Customer relationship management, David Sacks, Dell, DimDim, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Yammer -
Can social apps kill enterprise software?
Big, expensive, custom software from blue-chip software and consulting companies has been a rule of thumb for giant corporations for decades now. Is it possible a new breed of cloud-oriented startups can change all that?
Anyone who's had to sort through a clunky "reply all" email chain at work or tried to post a document to the intranet knows that there's got to be a better way. In fact, they probably MORE
Shelley DuBois, writer-reporter - Nov 1, 2010 10:46 AM ETPosted in: Bridgescale Partners, Daniel Debow, Facebook, Fortune 500, Rypple, Salesforce Chatter, Sequoia Capital, Twitter, Yammer
