Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:50:10 +0100 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, unveiled its first social-networking application late on Wednesday, in a move to latch onto one of the hottest trends in e-commerce. WalMart launched Shopycat, which uses Facebook data to recommend gifts to consumers, on the company's Facebook page. This is one of the first products to roll out of @Walmartlabs, a unit of the company based just south of San Francisco that is developing social-networking and mobile technologies for the retailer. ... (Source: Reuters)
Enterprise Social Networking Company Jive Software Files S-1 For IPO
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:40:10 +0200 Jive Software filed its S-1 for an expected IPO Wednesday.Jive reported revenue of $16.9 million, $46.3 million and $34.0 million for the calendar years of 2008, 2009 and 2010. For the six months ending June 30, 2011, revenues were $34.0 million and bookings were $42.4 million.The company reported a net loss of $27.6 million in 2010, up from $4.8 million in 2009 and $11.3 million in 2008. In the first six months of 2011 Jive reported a net loss of $30.6 million.Major shareholders are Sequoia Capital with 36.20%, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with 14.24% and founders David Hersh with 7. ... (Source: Forbes)
Edmodo Wants To Make Social Networking A Learning Experience
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:00:17 +0200 A social network for learning? Isn't the point of social networks to waste time?Start-up Edmodo, which has 2.5 million users, is taking Facebook-like tools that a new generation of students already know how to use--and bringing them to the K-12 classroom. The service is designed for students to communicate with teachers and each other around assignments and class topics. "Teachers want to help students learn the way they're already living," says Nic Borg, Edmodo founder and CEO, and a former Chicago-area teacher. ... (Source: Forbes)
Google is a latecomer to social networking but its new site, ...
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:30:05 +0200 (AFP/POOL/File) - Google is a latecomer to social networking but its new site, Google+, is growing much more rapidly than Facebook, Myspace and Twitter did in their early days, technology experts said Tuesday.(AFP/POOL/File/Robert Galbraith)
A new social networking site for ultra-Orthodox Jews takes customary ...
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:20:09 +0200 (AFP/File) - A new social networking site for ultra-Orthodox Jews takes customary segregation of the sexes online and also bars pictures or ads deemed immodest in ultra-Orthodox society.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
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