networking tools

Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks to CNET News’ Dan Farber about how the online recruitment site is building new search engine tools to provide more targeted job recommendations.

Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and social networking tools will garner the bulk of the money, according to a report by Forrester Research.

The report, released on Monday and penned by Forrester analyst G. Oliver Young, shows a few notable trends that are worth diving into.

Salesforce.com on Wednesday will roll out business networking tools so customers can securely share information such as sales leads, product information and other communications.
Think Facebook and LinkedIn meets corporate data sharing files.

Salesforce.com (all resources) dubs the effort a “multi-tenant business network.”
With the announcement, to be made at events in New York and San Francisco, [...]

While rumors swirl about acquisitions of popular social-networking sites, one deal has already happened: Visible Path, which makes social-networking tools for business users, is set to be acquired.

A company representative on Tuesday said that Visible Path has signed a term sheet with a multibillion international company to sell the ...

While rumors swirl about acquisitions of popular social networking sites, one deal has already happened: Visible Path, which makes social networking tools for business users, is set to be acquired.

A company spokesperson on Tuesday said that Visible Path has signed a term sheet with a multi-billion international company to ...

Six Apart announced a “new home” for LiveJournal (LJ), the blogging and social networking tools and community it acquired in January 2005.

The new home is Russian-based online media company SUP.
Another way of describing what’s happening with LiveJournal is that it was sold because it’s not strategic to Six Apart’s future.

The company is focusing [...]