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• Accused Of Being A Copy Cat, Microsoft Suspends Its Twitter-Like Service In China

  PaidContent - 2009-12-15

  Less than a month after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched a microblogging service in China, the company has pulled the product off the market, among rampant accusations that it had blatantly copied a competitor’s own microblogging service. In a statement issued late last night, Microsoft said, “Because questions have been...

  Tags: China, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intellectual Property, Blogging, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Microsoft, Twitter, Countries, Asia, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter in data-mining talks with Microsoft and Google - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-07

  Twitter may be poised to turn its large user base and high profile into revenues following reports that the micro-blogging platform is in separate talks with Google and Microsoft to license its torrent of real-time posts.  Tech blog All Things Digital quotes sources close to the talks...

  Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Twitter, Jasper Jackson

• Carphone Warehouse's Twitter Strategy

  BNET - 2009-08-13

  After reading Tyler Kearn's great post about the dangers of "by default" corporate twittering, I stumbled across* a really interesting interview with Guy Stephens, online help manager at The Carphone Warehouse CPW, about how the mobile phone retailer uses micro-blogging for customer service. The whole interview is a must-read...

  Tags: Strategy, Twitter, Guy Stephens, CPW, Retail, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Young

• New INQ handsets will sync with iTunes

  Strategy Eye - 2009-08-03

  INQ Mobile has struck a deal with startup DoubleTwist to release two new smartphones before the end of the year which will sync with songs stored in iTunes and Windows Media Player. The two 3G phones, the INQ Chat and the INQ Mini, are aimed at the mass market...

  Tags: Software, Phone, Handset, Apple iTunes, INQ Mobile, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Twitter, doubleTwist, Editorial, Apple Inc.

• Five Great Twitter Tools for Business Users

  BNET - 2009-08-03

  It's one thing to get your company on Twitter and start pushing out the tweets, but quite another to manage, monitor, and fully leverage your accounts. Fortunately, there's a growing number of Web-based tools that help you do exactly that. PC World just rounded up the five...

  Tags: Twitter, Tool, Permissions Console, Productivity, Microsoft Outlook, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management, Rick Broida

• Twitter's 101 Primer for Business Users

  BNET - 2009-07-25

  Yesterday, after rereading all of those leaked internal Twitter documents published by TechCrunch recently, I started getting a better grasp of the company's strategy going forward. As we noted yesterday, a newly redesigned home page will be launching soon that should help newcomers, including business people, figure out what this...

  Tags: Twitter, Product Marketing, Blogging, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, David Weir

• Best Buy Twitters an Extension of Service Strategy

  BNET - 2009-07-19

  When Best Buy realigned its work force several weeks ago, even demoting some employees from supervisory to customer service roles with commensurate pay cuts, observers couldn’t help but wonder if the company could continue to rely on their enthusiasm in the aftermath. Apparently, the company still is...

  Tags: Strategy, Best Buy Co. Inc., Twitter, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Mike Duff

• Manage Your Twitter Account in Outlook with TwInbox

  BNET - 2009-07-14

  Most hardcore Twitter users rely on TweetDeck or a similar program to read, tweet, retweet, and all that. But such programs aren't exactly boss-friendly: They instantly betray the fact that you're not working. Enter TwInbox, which lets you manage your Twitter account inside...

  Tags: Twitter, TwInbox, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida

• Making A LinkedIn For Twitter

  BNET - 2009-07-02

  Back in the days before Facebook, no one would have ever suggested that businesses get involved with social networks. Can you imagine someone suggesting to Michael Dell that his company ought to have a MySpace page? Today, not only does Dell Computer Company have a Facebook page...

  Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Knowledge Management, Social Networking, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Data Management, Management, Michael Hickins

• Microsoft Ignores Twitter Outlook Complaints

  BNET - 2009-06-25

  Microsoft has seen the fury of the masses and like Atlas, shrugged. A Twitter campaign astroturfed by email marketing campaign vendor Freshview is asking (or is it begging?) Microsoft to reverse course on a key technology decision made for Office 2007 in its next release of Outlook,...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Outlook 2010, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Michael Hickins