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Salesforce Buys Software Maker InStranet

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Expanding beyond its CRM roots, SaaS leader Salesforce.com has announced the $31.5 million acquisition of InStranet, which specializes in call-center software.

Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET

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SMB Ad Spending Stays Strong: Report

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Despite the economic climate, 81 percent of SMBs say they will spend as much as or more on advertising in the coming year, according to a new report.

Source(s): Online Media Daily

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Dell Loses Bid For Cloud Computing Trademark

Monday, August 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has denied Dell its application to trademark the phrase "cloud computing."

Source(s): PC World

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Entrepreneur Launches Social Network For Small Biz

Thursday, August 14, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Entrepreneur is the latest to jump on the social networking bandwagon with the announcement of Entrepreneur Connect, a social network for small business people that strives to be a "business-to-business marketplace designed specifically for entrepreneurs."

Source(s): Folio

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Nortel Buys Pingtel for Unified Communications Software Know-How

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Nortel is broadening its reach in the unified communications market with the acquisition of software maker Pingtel.

Source(s): Ottawa Business Journal

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Business & E-Business | Networking & Communications

Cisco Combines Linksys SMB Channel Program Into Own

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Cisco Systems is absorbing the Linksys Small-Business Channel Partner Program into its own partner program in a move it says will make doing business with SMBs easier for its channel partners.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, eChannel Line

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HP Bolsters ProCurve Arm With Colubris Acquisition

Monday, August 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

HP is expanding its presence in the wireless space with a definitive agreement to acquire Colubris Networks, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of wireless networks.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Business & E-Business | Mobile | Networking & Communications

Google Offers New Tools to Advertisers

Thursday, August 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google introduced new features to make it easier for advertisers to control how often an ad is displayed and measure its effectiveness.

Source(s): CNET

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Google Refines Searching Stats for Advertisers

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google is beta testing a new tool that helps advertisers and marketers better understand users' searching behavior and increase the effectiveness of their online campaigns.

Source(s): Search Engine Land, CNET

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Small Business Sole Bright Spot for July Job Growth: Report

Thursday, July 31, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Small business continued to outperform its bigger brothers for the month of July, according to the ADP National Employment Report.

Source(s): NJBiz

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Google, Nokia Seek to Seed Startups

Thursday, July 31, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google is reportedly planning to launch a venture-capital arm, joining high-tech names like Intel and Motorola in discovering and growing new companies.

Source(s): The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch

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Amazon Rolls Out Payment Service to Web Sites

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Amazon is extending its checkout payment system to fellow e-tailers a la Google Checkout, while launching another payment service similar to PayPal.

Source(s): The New York Times, CNET

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Microsoft to Bring Live Search to Facebook

Monday, July 28, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft, which says it's no longer interested in buying Yahoo, has strengthened its partnership with Facebook to help expand its search business.

Source(s): InformationWeek, The Money Times

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AOL Simplifies Widget Creation for Advertisers

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Platform-A, AOL's digital advertising subsidiary, is upping the interactive ante with a free service that simplifies the creation, syndication and measurement of widget-based ad campaigns.

Source(s): Social Media Portal, CNET

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Update: Yahoo, Icahn Reach Compromise

Monday, July 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Yahoo investor Carl Icahn has agreed to put his proxy fight to rest in exchange for three board seats.

Source(s): Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch

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Yahoo Launches Web Site to Take on Icahn

Friday, July 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Hoping to make its case to stockholders, Yahoo has launched a Web site that explains why investor Carl Icahn's plan to replace its board with his own hand-picked slate "is not the right answer" for the search company.

Source(s): CNET

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Google-Yahoo Ad Pact Means Keywords Could Cost More

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Should the Google-Yahoo deal comes to pass, businesses could find themselves paying more for their search advertising.

Source(s): The New York Times

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Google Displays AdWords Popularity

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google has added a "search volume data" feature to the Keyword Tool that potential advertisers use to select keywords to bid on. The new feature gives an idea of how many people actually search on those keywords.

Source(s):  Google AdWords blog

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Microsoft Open to a Yahoo Deal If Icahn's Board Takes Charge

Monday, July 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft would be willing to once again discuss a deal with Yahoo if investor Carl Icahn's proposed board is elected.

Source(s): The New York Times

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Small Businesses See Modest Job Growth, Midsize Businesses Down: Report

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Midsize businesses shed 35,000 jobs, while small businesses gained 7,000, according to the ADP National Employment Report for June.

Source(s): The Street, CNN Money

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Microsoft To Buy Online Search Company Powerset

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Online searches could take on greater meaning with Microsoft's planned acquisition of Powerset, whose natural language-based technologies strive to understand the meaning and intent behind keywords used for indexing and searching.

Source(s): The Register, TechCrunch

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Vendors Fight Back Against at 'Patent Trolls'

Monday, June 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Eleven high-tech companies have joined forces to safeguard themselves from costly patent lawsuits.

Source(s): CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal

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NEC To Acquire NetCracker

Friday, June 27, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Japan's NEC is spending $300 million to acquire NetCracker Technology, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of network interfaces and communications services.

Source(s): Reuters

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Visa Creates Small Business Network on Facebook

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Visa is designing a small-business network and application for social networking site Facebook and will offer advertising credit to businesses that join.

Source(s): Associated Press

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Nokia Acquires Social Networking Startup

Monday, June 23, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Continuing its push into the mobile services world, Nokia has announced plans to buy Plazes, a Berlin-based social networking startup.

Source(s): TechCrunch, Network World

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Yahoo Down More Execs, Up Two E-Mail Domains

Friday, June 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Post-breakdown of Microsoft talks, and despite its recent advertising deal with Google, Yahoo's revolving door continues to spin.

Source(s): TechCrunch, The New York Times

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Icahn: Yahoo, Google Deal 'Might Have Some Merit'

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Carl Icahn, who last month launched a proxy fight against Yahoo's board, conceded the online advertising deal between Yahoo and Google "might have some merit," though he's still disappointed that a merger with Microsoft didn't happen.

Source(s): The Street

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eBay Opens Selling Manager to Developers

Monday, June 16, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

eBay is launching a developer program called Project Echo which will for the first time enable third-party developers to add functions to the tools eBay sellers use to manage their listings.

Source(s): Washington Post, Computerworld

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Yahoo, Google Join Advertising Forces

Friday, June 13, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Yahoo has announced a nonexclusive advertising partnership with Google that (for now) puts to rest acquisition discussions it continued having with Microsoft.

Source(s): PC World, Redmond Channel Partner

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Motorola Joins Mobile 3G Party

Monday, June 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Joining Samsung and Apple in today's rush of 3G phone announcements is Motorola, which launched its MC75, a ruggedized handheld "enterprise digital assistant."

Source(s): ChannelWeb, Computerworld

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