As Facebook and other social networks have grown in popularity, businesses have started looking for ways to leverage them within the enterprise. The result: an influx of social software companies ...

Peter Biddle--the man behind Microsoft's BitLocker technology and Darknet--has caught the enterprise 2.0 bug. On August 8, Biddle joined London-based Trampoline Systems, a company that makes social ...

If you love a good theory--of psychology, physics, economics, you name it--go work at SocialText. These guys live in their heads. That became apparent when I talked to founder Ross Mayfield and newish ...

IBM is releasing a new version of its Connections enterprise social networking (ESN) software, which companies use to give their employees social media capabilities adapted for workplace collaboration ...

Social networking and media has affected the enterprise in different ways than it has consumers. Analyst firm Gartner has some interesting ideas on what happens next. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

NewsGator has enhanced its Social Sites enterprise social-networking software with Facebook-like activity stream notifications and improved search functionality. Social Sites 2.5, which the company ...

Social networking, Macs and iPhones have reached critical mass in the enterprise, says an IBM integrator. Big Blue wants a piece of high-flying Apple, as well as a slice of the social networking craze ...

Leveraging advances in communication and integration, a new kind of application — corporate social networking — is being folded into the CRM feature set. Corporate social networking software measures, ...

In a great IT industry irony, ESN (enterprise social networking) software, designed to boost interaction and collaboration, is often ignored by users and ends up forgotten like the proverbial ghost ...

Cisco announced Thursday that it will purchase social networking software maker Five Across, a developer of technology that enables companies to easily add social networking features to their Web ...

Harvesting breakthrough ideas is a challenge for any organization, but one company thinks a bit of play may be just the answer. Spigit mixes enterprise social networks with game design and personal ...