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LinkedIn and Twitter have announced they are teaming up to offer better social networking tools for businesses.
The partnership will allow users updating their status on LinkedIn to sync this with their Twitter feed. This should help increase the volume of users' followers well as making their updates more relevant for real time searches, according to the two companies.
Supermarket giant Asda is launching a social networking site for customers and staff.
The site, named “Your Asda,” isn’t live at present but should be launched before the end of the week.
The UK remains stubborn in the adoption of social networking in business while numbers across the Atlantic soar.
Research from consultancy firm Russell Herder and Ethos Business Law has shown that 81 per cent of American respondents thought business relationships between customer and client could be improved by using social networking. The same number thought such tools were useful for building a brand.
IT staff lack business acumen, according to a study release today.
IT solutions company Parity surveyed IT staff and managers in the UK and found
Once mainly the domain of larger enterprises, smaller companies are now picking up on the benefits of BI.
SMEs are looking closely at business intelligence (BI) to enable real-time information to be shared among all their decision makers, according to an SAP director.
Oracle has announced business intelligence packages are now available for SMBs, who, it claims, need them just as much as larger companies.
Despite all the moves that Twitter has made to get into the business market, it seems Biz Stone and co may still have a long way to go.
There's no excuse for a business to not be on the microblogging site, experts have claimed, as Gartner offers four ways enterprises are already using Twitter.
Online retailing growth continues, according to the latest sales figures that show Brits' love of booze and romance has helped buck the economic downturn.

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