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Google Is "Super Nervous" About Facebook, Uses This Painting As Inspiration...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has downplayed the threat from Facebook in interviews, pointing to Microsoft's Bing search engine as a much bigger threat. But internally it's another story. Last year,...
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Larry Page Just Tied ALL Employees' Bonuses To The Success Of Google's Social...
New Google CEO Larry Page, who stepped into the job this week, believes that Google needs to go "social" to compete. To that end, he sent out a company-wide memo last Friday, alerting employees that...
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Facebook: We're Not A "Spying Machine"
Facebook has responded to Julian Assange's criticism that the site is an "appalling spying machine" that could be used by government agencies to get detailed personal information about dissidents....
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The REAL Story Behind The LinkedIn IPO: The Battle For The Business Social...
Most reaction swirling around yesterday's hot debut of LinkedIn takes one of two forms: A conversation of how this signals a healthy forecast for technology IPO comebacks, or a discussion of the hype...
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Microsoft Is Moving Too Slowly On Social Features For Office, So Jive Is...
Microsoft is gradually adding social and online collaboration features to Office and its other products, but Jive Software is here now for businesses that don't want to wait for Microsoft. The company...
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Jive Software -- The Next Company You Need To Know About
Jive Software has been around since 2001, but in the last couple of years it's finally found its niche: building a social collaboration platform for businesses. Companies can use Jive's products for...
View ArticleLook At How Strange Your Online Life Is
Imagine if your real life was like your online life. You'd walk up to people you barely knew and ask them if they want to be your friend -- and try to convince them by showing them your photos. You...
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Facebook Is Losing Users In The Countries Where It Took Off First
Something strange is going on: Facebook is losing customers. Lots of customers. According to Inside Facebook's data service, Facebook lost 6 million users in the U.S. last month, dropping from 155.2...
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TOUR: Jive Software, One Of Silicon Valley's Next Big Things
After 10 years and some ups and downs, Jive Software seems perfectly poised for a big exit -- an IPO or acquisition. While giants like Microsoft and Salesforce.com are now trying to add social...
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Learn Social Media Secrets From Four Major Brands At Social Media Analytics
Do you want to hear how Fortune 500 companies manage the fire hose of social-media data they and their customers generate? So do we. Strategists for major brands will be speaking at Business Insider's...
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Google+ Is Looking More And More Like Twitter, Not Facebook (GOOG)
At launch, Google+ looked almost exactly like Facebook. Now, it's looking more and more like Twitter. Last night, as first noticed by Ben Parr at Mashable, the company rolled out trending topics in...
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Why The PayPal "Mafia" Was So Great: Yammer CEO David Sacks Explains
David Sacks is one of the earliest members of the so-called PayPal "mafia," a group of PayPal employees who went on to unusual positions of influence and power in Silicon Valley. But his first...
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Your Phone Is Almost A Human (VMW)
Mobile phones are acquiring human senses and this will totally change the way we work. So says Tim Young, VMware's new vice president of Social Enterprise, who we recently spoke with. (Young came to...
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Those 'Facebook For The Workplace' Tools Are Garbage, Says This CEO (RHT)
"Everyone's talking about the importance of engaging employees, and the Facebook generation and collaboration tools. All of that is garbage … collaboration is a culture. It's not a set of tools,"...
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Yammer Joins The Big Guns With $85 Million Funding Round
As has been rumored since the beginning of the year, enterprise social networking company Yammer has closed a big funding round: $85 million. A person familiar with the deal said it values Yammer...
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The Four Big Things HP Really Needs To Turn Itself Around (HPQ)
Six months into Meg Whitman's reign as Hewlett-Packard's CEO, the jury is still out on whether she will stop its decline. She is warning that HP’s transformation could take three to five years. But HP...
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The Worst Case Scenario For Windows 8
Last week, Microsoft released the first public test version of Windows 8, its next operating system. It's got a very tough job. It has to beat back three threats at once: the iPad, the Mac, and...
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TOUR: After Hours At Yammer, The Hot S.F. Startup That Just Scored $85 Million
Being social -- both online and offline -- is in Yammer's DNA. After all, it's basically a social network for corporations. We visited Yammer's headquarters in San Francisco during happy hour last...
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Box Just Moved Into This Amazing New Office With A Two-Story Spiral Slide
Box was running out of space. The super-hot enterprise software company (formerly known as Box.net) helps employees store and share information, like documents and video files, and access that...
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Box Is Growing Up Into A Serious Enterprise Company -- But Not Too Serious
Enterprise startup Box is growing up. The company just moved into a spacious new office with more than enough room for its 400 employees, and while it's got plenty of whimsical touches like stuffed...
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