Enterprise 2.0 vendor NewsGator gets funding boost
NewsGator, a maker of hosted and on-premise social computing software for companies, has closed a US$10 million round of funding, the company announced Monday.
NewsGator, a maker of hosted and on-premise social computing software for companies, has closed a US$10 million round of funding, the company announced Monday.
Feeling a bit hungry? Wondering exactly who some of these people are who you befriended on your Facebook page? Maybe it's time to cull a few friends?
A new breed of terrorists are using online forums to recruit people who align themselves with the mission of Al Qaeda, creating global networks of would-be terrorists who pose a growing threat, a senior cyberterrorist researcher warned this week.
Hackers have seeded LinkedIn, the business networking service, with bogus celebrity profiles.
Hackers are targeting Twitter users in a bid to steal personal information, says Sophos.
NewsGator has enhanced its Social Sites enterprise social-networking software with Facebook-like activity stream notifications and improved search functionality.
More than half of the working Millennials polled for an Accenture study said that were either unaware of their company's IT policies or are not willing to follow them.
The maker of pain reliever Motrin is now feeling the pain of a social media backlash to its recently released online ad that riled a large group of bloggers and Twitter users.
Google and Microsoft last week traded counter-punches over voice and social networking tools as the two continue to battle each other over emerging technologies.
While much has been written about the impact of President-Elect Barack Obama's successful use of social networking and other Web 2.0 tools, the campaign had been mum about the future of My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's social network, immediately after last week's election.
As Web application platforms rise in importance and popularity, Google, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook executives shared tips for keeping developers happy, disagreed on philosophical issues like standards and articulated wish lists of applications they'd like to see created.
Web 2.0 will revolutionize collaboration with IT suppliers, Forrester has predicted.
SAP's venture capital arm has sunk an undisclosed sum of money into LinkedIn, the business-oriented social-networking site.
Yahoo continues to roll out its Open Strategy aimed at overhauling its platform and services by opening itself to more developers and becoming more social with the debut Thursday of a new universal user profile.
MySpace is using technology to analyze whether potential users trying to sign up for the social network may be registered sex offenders, the company's chief security officer said Wednesday.