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Igloo Software Unveils Solutions-as-a-Service Digital Workplace, More News
Igloo Software, a Kitchener, Ontario-based digital workplace solutions provider, last week released a Solutions-as-a-Service approach officials said will help customers achieve new levels of productivity, innovation and time to value. The company unveiled its new model at the inaugural Digital Workplace Experience conference in Chicago.
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Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Docs.com
Microsoft has announced that it will be closing Docs.com, its file-sharing service, effective December 15 of this year, making it the first internal software casualty arising from the Redmond, Wash.-based giant’s late-2016 acquisition of LinkedIn. Marketplace reaction to the announcement has been muted thus far, underscoring the fact that
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LinkedIn, Vista Equity Partners Acquire Sales Tech Companies, More News
LinkedIn and Vista Equity Partners each went after their share of the sales technology pie through separate acquisitions this week. LinkedIn announced it acquired Redwood City, Calif.-based sales tech provider Heighten in a move designed to bolster its Sales Navigator platform. Officials at LinkedIn made the announcement on Tuesday. Meanwhile,
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The Secret Sauce in LinkedIn's Marketing Guide Tastes Expensive
Five hundred million professionals now use LinkedIn to advance their careers and network with fellow professionals. But despite the network’s success, LinkedIn’s power as a B2B marketing platform is often downplayed in the face of other social networks like Facebook (although Facebook’s powerful ad manager may also have something to
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Microsoft Updates Dynamics 365 to Include LinkedIn Sales Navigator Integration
Microsoft launched a salvo at Salesforce last November with the release of Dynamics 365. Yesterday the company raised the stakes with the announcement of several updates to Dynamics, including integration with the LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Putting the LinkedIn Data to Work According to a statement from Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft,
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LinkedIn Releases Auto-Populating Lead Gen Forms for Mobile
LinkedIn introduced a tool today designed to generate quality leads on mobile by avoiding the fat finger syndrome so common on smartphones. The Mountain View, Calif.
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LinkedIn Incorporates PointDrive Technology in Sales Navigator Updates
LinkedIn added a new enterprise edition tier and other enhancements to Sales Navigator today, its sales tool for prospecting and insights. Officials at the Mountain View, Calif. professional network call it the biggest update since last June when it integrated Sales Navigator into Salesforce and Gmail.
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Satya Nadella Reveals Plans for an Integrated Microsoft and LinkedIn
Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn closed yesterday after it cleared the final hurdle — European Commission approval — on Dec. 7. The deal had previously passed reviews in the U.S., Canada, Brazil and South Africa. The result is that Microsoft now has a $26.2 billion company that is chockablock with personal
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Salesforce Fumes as Microsoft Clears Final Hurdle in $26.2B LinkedIn Deal
Editor's note: Microsoft and LinkedIn announced on Dec. 8 that the acquisition had officially closed. Microsoft's pending $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn is expected to close in a matter of days.
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Salesforce Investors Question Marc Benioff's Twitter Infatuation
SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks ago CMSWire asked the obvious: Why the hell would Salesforce want to buy Twitter? Now the company's investors are asking the same thing. In a meeting with investors yesterday following his Dreamforce keynote, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff was forced to defend his
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What LinkedIn's Economic Graph Brings to Microsoft, You and the World
Last Thursday LinkedIn unveiled its plan to build the world's first economic graph.
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Salesforce Tackles Diversity, Twitter Targets Customer Support, More News
Salesforce has hired an executive to lead its equality efforts. The San Francisco-based cloud computing company tapped Tony Prophet as its chief equality officer. He starts at the end of this month. Prophet will leading the company's equality initiatives, focusing on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality. He will report to Salesforce
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LinkedIn Boosts Campaign Manager with Native Conversion Tracking
LinkedIn today added conversion tracking to its Campaign Manager tool in a move that aims to make it easier to track results of advertising campaigns run on the professional social network.
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LinkedIn Scraped by Bad Bots in Massive Scale Attack
In a stunning announcement that many business professionals should be tuning into, LinkedIn made public, through a court filing earlier this month, that bad bots have been actively scraping profile data from its site for almost a year. According to the official complaint, filed in the Northern California U.S.
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