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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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Microsoft’s $1.2 Billion Acquisition of Yammer Complete

Tech Zulu Event

Microsoft in late June announced to have acquired social network for enterprises Yammer at $ 1.2 He says,” all closing conditions for Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer have been met, and the deal is completed”. Spataro says , “We couldn’t be more pleased to welcome the Yammer team to the Microsoft Office Division.

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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. Most social networking sites have a problem with having lots of pageviews, but advertising that isn't very valuable.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

The late night didn’t make for a productive start to the morning but by the time Sean Percival got on stage to host the panel with Chris Brogan, Micah Baldwin (who started #FollowFriday) and Ben Huh (ICanHazCheeseburger) there was a great discussion on what it takes to be an Uber-blogger and social networker.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

So it is not uncommon for somebody to be skint when a big event such as a “ hen party &# is coming up and just need 200 quid for 2 weeks. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

It should include all of your communications, no matter what social network, and no matter who on your team has done it. That is relationship nirvana, my vision of social business. You can send messages on any network, set tasks, schedule events, or log activities, managing your relationships on the social stream.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

In any event, they had such scale advantages in providing this Internet infrastructure that to this day nobody in the industry has come close to matching them. LinkedIn – Lots of people talk about LinkedIn as a social network. Of course I could go on and on including businesses like AirBnB, DropBox, Box.net, Yammer and so on.

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