Tibco Takes After Twitter

Business software makers are increasingly drawing inspiration from social-networking Web sites and other online tools popular with consumers. The latest to do so is Tibco, which is known for making software that integrates data from different corporate systems. Integration software seems pretty far afield from, say, Twitter.

Tibco Q1 Sales, Profit Forecast Light, but Shares Still Rise

After infrastructure software vendor Tibco beat profit estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter, company management held a conference call with analysts and offered a fiscal first-quarter forecast that may not be as bad as some might have worried.