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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Yammer, a maker of cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software, for US$1.2 billion [b] in cash, a deal rumored to be in the works for the past week and a ...

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 ...