"social business" news, interviews, and features

News about social business

• Social business applications revenue expected to hit $US37bn by 2019: 451 Research

  Claims it will increase by more than 2.5 times in size between 2014 and 2019

• Facebook takes on the enterprise with new social network

  Facebook is beginning a pilot test of a desktop service and mobile app for what's being dubbed Facebook at Work.

• Facebook's privacy blunders may trip up potential enterprise push

  If Facebook launches a social network for the workplace, CIOs will have to decide whether they can get past the history of privacy issues.

• Microsoft struts YouTube-style video streaming for enterprises

  Microsoft has unveiled Office 365 Video, a YouTube-like streaming service where enterprises and organizations can post in-house videos.

• Facebook may be building social network for the enterprise

  Facebook may be expanding from a social website to a network focused on business users.

• Google makes Hangouts more enterprise friendly

  Hangouts and Chromebox for Meetings get a business-focused update

Features about social business

• With Gundotra out, changes likely for Google+

  Google's social network will have to move on without its champion

• 7 things marketing wants to say to IT

  As marketing becomes fully digital, CMOs need more than just plain-vanilla tech services from their IT departments -- much more.

• Here comes the age of ambient everything

  Trends in social, search, mobile, wearable and the Internet of things will alter our perception of reality. Change is in the air.

• Open APIs: An indispensable link to customers

• The social network wars are over. The winner: email!

  Rampant innovation in email has transformed it into the best social network on the Internet.

• Social networking drives business processes at Pandora and Rosetta Stone

  These two companies have successfully-embraced the social business trend and are reaping the benefits