Leading Technology Companies Support Formation of OpenStack Foundation
SAN ANTONIO, Apr 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Today nineteen leading technology companies announced their plans to become Platinum or Gold members of the OpenStack Foundation, an independent and long-term home for OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system. AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSE have indicated…
Yammer swoops for Amadeus-backed, oneDrum Cabume
Less than six months after launching its first product, a tool that allows multiple co-workers to collaborate in real time on Microsoft Office applications, the Amadeus Capital-backed oneDrum has been acquired by Californian firm, Yammer. Yammer, a social network for the business sector, has not disclosed financial details of the…
Wavii delivers morsels of news, five words at a time
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Five years ago, Twitter’s critics dismissed the idea that news could be transmitted in 140 characters. Now, Adrian Aoun thinks it can be done in just five or six words. Aoun, a 29-year old entrepreneur in Seattle, unveiled on Wednesday an automated, algorithm-driven news aggregator called Wavii…
Trio of European social collaboration start-ups acquired
Europe-based start-ups Podio, oneDrum and Blue Kiwi picked up by Citrix, Yammer and Atos respectively Three European social collaboration vendors were acquired yesterday, implying growing interest in the use of social media-like functionality in the workplace. Application infrastructure and virtualisation vendor Citrix announced its intention to acquire Podio. The Danish…
Did Microsoft Just Buy Netscape?
During the height of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and then U.S. Department of Justice antitrust investigations of Microsoft, I covered software for Infoworld. I was in the cat bird’s seat, following Lotus, Borland, Novell, WordPerfect, Borland and Ashton-Tate. I knew all Microsoft competitors and they griped to me about…
Yammer Buys OneDrum for Office Collaboration Tools
Enterprise social networking vendor Yammer said Wednesday it has purchased OneDrum, maker of software that allows users to work on Microsoft Office documents and other files collaboratively. Terms were not disclosed. Today, users still rely largely on email to share files with each other, a cumbersome process that can lead…
Citrix Adds Social Networking Collaboration Cloud Service with Podio
A growing number of enterprises are realizing the value of providing a social-networking intranet for their employees so that they can more easily collaborate on–and monitor the progress of–various projects. Seeing a clear market opportunity, virtualization software provider Citrix April 11 acquired Podio, a company that provides exactly that: cloud-based Podio…
Further Growth Planned By DocuWare
DocuWare, a global leader in enterprise content management, announces its plan to expand their presence in Canada with the appointment of Walter Miller to the position of Sales Director, Canada. Continuing the company’s current initiative for growth and market development for the Americas, DocuWare is now reaching further into Canada…
Citrix Acquires Cloud-Based Social Business Collaboration Platform Podio
Citrix has just announced the acquisition of social business collaboration platform, Podio. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Podio is a social network for businesses that lets those who use it create apps to enhance the functionality of the service. We’ve compared it to a "Yammer with apps."…
Exo Goes Freemium With Social Intranet Portal
Exo Goes Freemium With Social Intranet PortalCloud Workspaces promises a Yammer-like social collaboration service, free to get started with, but backed by mature Java portal technology. Cloud Workspaces promises a Yammer-like social collaboration service, free to get started with, but backed by mature Java portal technology. For a combination of…