Articles in Business
Facebook and AMEX Announce Facebook Big Break for Small Business
Facebook will be partnering with American Express to launch the “Facebook Big Break for Small Business” contest which will run from April 25 thru May 20th. With the Facebook Big Break for Small Business contest, 5 U.S. small business owners can win $20,000 cash prize, free one-on-one consulting about their current use of Facebook, and a two-day advertising and marketing boot camp at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. The training will include best practices for using ... Read More
IBM Launches Virtual Desktop
IBM is offering a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that costs US$150 per user annually. “The IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business offering should help ease the high administrative overhead normally associated with setting up VDI deployments,” said Dan Cerutti, general manager of IBM’s Smart Business Solutions unit. “We’ve dramatically simplified how you order and buy these things. Everything is included in the Virtual Desktop Solution,” ... Read More
Mikogo Offers Free Online Meeting Alternative
The free online meeting provider used in over 200 countries, Mikogo, is welcoming all Dimdim customers to its service as the new source for free and reliable online meetings. The sudden news came yesterday that Dimdim has been acquired by Salesforce.com and that subscriptions to the online meeting service will end, some as early as March 15 this year. Thousands of businesses will be looking for an online meeting alternative, and Mikogo believes that it has the right service to meet those ... Read More
Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim From Dow Jones
Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) announced it acquired messaging and screen-sharing company Dimdim for about $31 million as the software company looks to build on the rapid adoption of Chatter, its new business-collaboration software. “It’s all about Chatter” Chief Executive Marc Benioff said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. “We want more collaboration services than ever before in Chatter” for things like instant messaging and online meetings. Salesforce did ... Read More
