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Dropbox hits 100m users, offers free storage space in contest

Online storage firm Dropbox has only been in the game four years, but already it’s managed to reach 100 million users. Dropbox was doing some celebrating on Tuesday with news that it has reached the 100-million-users milestone - that’s pretty good going for a start-up that launched only four years ago.

via: www.digitaltrends.com

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Yammer: Now with native integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Follow @maryjofoley Microsoft bought enterprise social-networking vendor Yammer for $1.2 billion in June. And on October 29, Yammer officials announced the first of the deeper integration pieces between the two companies.

via: www.zdnet.com

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Klout And Microsoft Bing Bring On The Social Influence Game Onto The Search Engine

Microsoft Bing and Klout are partnering up to bring social measured score of influence on to the searching game. Microsoft and Klout both believe that the growth of the social web and the increasing importance of your online identity are fundamentally transforming the Internet, making it even more important to understand people, not just pages.

via: www.thetechnologycafe.com

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How Apple’s Local and Mapping Investment Will Lead to Web Search

[I work at Microsoft where I work on projects that drive data quality in our local search experiences on Bing and other clients.] Most of the civilized world, but this time, has heard about Apple’s fumble with their new mapping and local search capabilities in iOS.

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The Work of Master Concept Artist Feng Zhu

Feng Zhu is a veteran concept artist whose list of clients include Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Sony, Activision, Industrial Light+Magic, NCSoft, Warner Brothers, Lucasfilm, Bay Films, Epic Games, and many other top studios.

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What the Heck Is Yammer?

The phrase ” Facebook for business” was tossed around when the company was acquired; but in reality, Yammer does much more than Mark Zuckerberg’s baby. Here’s an overview of what everyone is Yammer-ing about. A Social Network for Your Business Yammer is essentially a social network that’s entirely focused on your business.

via: www.pcworld.com

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Confessions, Changes, and Surprising Discounts

Confessions, Changes, and Surprising Discounts Here’s a Geek Out that’s chock full of confessions, changes, and surprising discounts offered by corporations not usually inclined to give such quarter in the marketplace. Are we at the end of the world or the beginning of a new one? Maybe… Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/

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Behind Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition

The spending spree on social business upstarts lays bare five major trends transforming enterprise software. By Ryan Holmes, contributor FORTUNE — Microsoft is snatching up business social networking tool Yammer - a.k.a Facebook for the workplace - for $1.2 billion.

via: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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Microsoft Surface tablets unveiled with screen cover that doubles as keyboard

Microsoft has unveiled its own line of tablets based on Windows RT and Windows 8. The Microsoft Surface tablets puts it in direct competition with its own hardware partners. Did we mention that it comes with a Touch Cover that doubles as a keyboard? Microsoft is getting into the hardware business in a big way.

via: www.digitaltrends.com

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