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It's Business Time for Apple's iPad

John Paczkowski in News on February 14, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Though there’s no dedicated salesforce selling it in the enterprise market, Apple’s iPad has gained significant traction there. Since its debut, more than 65 percent of the Fortune 100 have deployed or piloted the device. If Apple’s not pushing the iPad into the enterprise market, how is it getting there?

App Way to Gripe (or Praise) About Service

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 8, 2011 at 2:54 pm PT

Katie looks at Tello, a new website and mobile app that encourages users to chime in on their customer-service experiences, good or bad.

Google Latitude Adds Check-Ins (How 2009!)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 10:13 am PT

Today Google Latitude will give users the ability to share their location with friends and strangers by “checking in” to a particular establishment.

Amazon Gets Into the Bulk Email Game

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 25, 2011 at 12:35 pm PT

Why set up a mail server to send messages to customers when you can do the same thing in the cloud?

When It Wasn't Stuffing Cars, EMC Was Doing Real Business

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT

Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.

Foodspotting Captures $3M Series A

Liz Gannes in Social on January 10, 2011 at 11:51 am PT

Foodspotting, the maker of visually pleasing apps for recommending particular restaurant dishes, has raised $3 million in a Series A funding round led by BlueRun Ventures, the mobile-focused venture capital firm.

Ring, Ring. Hi, It's Google

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 23, 2010 at 9:33 pm PT

Google Inc., which helped popularize the idea of automated ad sales on the Web, has been quietly turning to an old-fashioned tool–phone calls–to compete in the hot market for local business advertising.

Zynga Chooses Facebook, Yet Again, for Exclusive Launch of Next Game: CityVille

Liz Gannes in Social on November 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Zynga may make “social games,” but they do not foster much in the way of complex or rewarding social interaction. The company is trying to change that, and today is announcing its next game, CityVille, which it calls its most social to date. CityVille (of course) is a cutesy simulation game in which users work to turn a small town into a big city.

Google CEO’s Advice to the Street-View Shy: The Video

John Paczkowski in News on October 25, 2010 at 2:34 pm PT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s suggestion for those who feel violated by Street View (“Move”) didn’t make the final cut of his interview on CNN’s “Parker Spitzer” show, but here’s the outtake.

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Google Adds Cloud Access to Enterprise Search Appliance

Voices in News on October 18, 2010 at 9:27 am PT

Google, which is encouraging businesses to adopt its Google Apps productivity applications, is now making that cloud-based data more accessible for companies that also use its Search Appliance. Now, in addition to enabling intranet searches, the updated Search Appliance’s Cloud Connect will also pull in results from Google Docs, Google Sites and Twitter. The new version also adds People Search, which lists the company employees related to the search subject.

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