Twitter targets businesses

On Wednesday, Salesforce.com launched its Social Marketing Cloud. It is a collection of various services that focus on providing help to companies in managing their brands as well as communicate and engage with customers through...

Research in Motion says they have restored Blackberry services in Europe, Middle East and Africa on Tuesday after the EMEA and India first reported problems in email and messenger features.  "Yesterday, some BlackBerry...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims that companies no longer want to merge customer data gathered from various sources when customers themselves start to feel alienated.The CEO spoke during a press conference held this...

US wireless carrier Sprint has filed a lawsuit in order to get AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile blocked. The company, just like the US Department of Justice, claims that the acquisition will lead to high prices...

Japanese car maker Toyota today announced plans to launch a Facebook-style social network, exclusively for owners of its automobiles. According to press release fired at Thinq_ Towers, the motoring giant is teaming up with...

After decades of domination in the car market, Toyota is all set to move into the world of social networking, new reports confirmed According to reports, the Japanese automobile giant is going to join forces with the San...

Cloud based CRM software maker Salesforce has announced the acquisition of social media monitoring firm Radian6 Technologies for $340 million. Radian6 provides software which allows companies to see what is being said about their...

Professional networking platform LinkedIn has rolled out a new service offering its more than 90 million customers user-targeted news aggregated from around the web. LinkedIn Today is a personalised news service that will provide...

Salesforce has launched a new social contact centre platform that will let organisations interact with customers on social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The Service Cloud 3 will allow companies to see what...

A break-in at Vodafone's exchange centre in Basingstoke has put down internet, text and voice services for hundreds of thousands of Vodafone customers in the UK. Vodafone revealed that engineers were working to fix the...

Cisco has released a new business tool set to allow companies to keep track of and reply to comments made by customers on social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The Cisco SocialMiner software is designed to alert...

Dell appears to be distancing itself from Microsoft's Windows operating system. It is believed that Dell might drop Windows and forge ties with Microsoft rival Google as it prepares to launch its Chrome OS.Telecommunications...

3 UK has announced that the Samsung S3370 touchscreen smartphone will be available on its network on PAYG and oddly enough, not on more lucrative pay monthly contracts. The phone comes with a 2.7-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen...

The outage suffered by O2, one of Britain’s top mobile network providers, has apparently hassled a number of iPhone users who complained that they have not been able to use their Apple iPhones properly for more than 48...

Telefonica's O2 has quietly launched a new UK subsidiary called Giffgaff which markets itself as the people powered mobile network and incidentally proposes the cheapest PAYG tariff across UK.Like failed MVNO Blyk, GiffGaff is...