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Conway Adds No Luster to Salesforce.com Board

The appointment of former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway as a Salesforce.com board of directors member is surprising, and a bit dismaying, considering that he...

VeriSign Tackles the Scandal of Splog

Its not about where influential Weblogs—Robert Scoble, Dave Winer or Doc Searls—will live. Theyll live on the servers theyve called home, and Weblogs.com will...

Salesforce.com Appoints Conway to Its Board

Salesforce.com, the current darling of the On Demand world, announced Friday the appointment of former PeopleSoft Inc. CEO Craig Conway to its board of...

Blog Acquisitions Signal Tipping Point for User-Generated Content

The blogosphere was abuzz with surprise and cautious optimism Thursday with the news that a major blog network and a blog update notification service...

AOL Launches Grass Roots IM Presence Campaign

AOL (America Online Inc.) is enlisting prominent blogging, media and social networking Web companies to encourage the implementation of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) presence...

Microsoft Acquires Unveil Technologies

With the goal of enhancing its call center application development capabilities, Microsoft announced Thursday a technology acquisition from Unveil Technologies. The terms of the deal...

Some Absences in Presence

AOL has embarked in a program to add "presence" features to as many blogging, media, and social networking sites as possible. People using these...

VeriSign Acquires Dave Winers Weblogs.com

Weblog pioneer Dave Winer has sold his Weblogs.com ping server to Internet and telecommunications services giant VeriSign Inc. News of the deal swirled around the...

U.K. Film Group, Government Push Widespread DRM

LONDON—A report prepared for and endorsed by the British Screen Advisory Council promotes widespread digital rights management programs to manage content, while advising shrinking...

Check Point Snaps Up Sourcefire

Check Point Software Technologies Inc. is snapping up intrusion prevention and real-time network awareness software maker Sourcefire for a $225 million mix of cash...