Even a seemingly simple business-networking event, such as a baseball game where peanuts are thrown around the stadium, can be a challenge for an employee with food allergies.
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The Department of Commerce is proposing to increase the number of small and medium AAPI businesses that exporting to a second or additional country by providing export-related training and business-to-business networking sessions to minority-owned companies.
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The world has chosen Facebook, but the likes of LinkedIn and Twitter are offering bespoke services - fast news or business networking - which appeal to smaller communities.
In the biggest deal, No. 46 Yammer, a maker of business social-networking software and a competitor of Jive Software, agreed in June to be acquired by Microsoft Corp.
If you are an active user of business-oriented social networking tools, you may often get requests directly from interested parties and customers who come across you online or at some event.
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On a conference call, Senior Vice President Charles Giancarlo said that Cisco originally intended to build a home networking business--including the products--itself.
This puts Alcatel into the booming business of making data-networking equipment.
Management projected revenue will increase 4 percent to 6 percent from last year, assuming a deal to sell its home-networking business closes on schedule next month.
At U.S.-based Stanford Business School, networking between graduates is aided by the use of a specially created Web-based e-mail system.
The corporate community takes an active role in recruiting industry and provides mentoring and business consulting to companies new to Alabama - whether it be assistance with business networking or helping new families to find homes, enroll in school, or become active in the community.
Manpower is acutely aware of the threat to this business posed by online social-networking sites.
So adding business-collaboration tools to Facebook would make sense. (Dustin Moskovitz, one of Facebook's co-founders, has just raised funding for a new business-collaboration start-up called Asana.) Some bosses regard social networking as the epitome of online time-wasting.
Still, 74% of business owners say they do not use social-networking tools, according to the American Express survey.
Though the company again declined to discuss specifics on-record, they mentioned that business networking looks like a compelling market.
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LinkedIn was one of a number of companies that have successfully revived the online social networking business originally explored before the dot-com bust of 2001.
We do this with discourse on Facebook, chatting on Twitter, joining business networking groups, getting together for chick-talk and in the process, help to keep one another focused in ways men find difficult to pattern.
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In professional-service conglomerates, old-fashioned networking is a powerful influence on business.
Moreover, it appears that social networking is a classic increasing-returns business, and Facebook was good or lucky enough to leverage it better than anyone else.
Two lessons are being drawn - success in social networking is an ephemeral business and the owners of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter should get out now while the going is good.
The central-switch business could rattle Cisco's hammerlock on wired networking, too.
So has the AAMA, another influential networking group to help develop Asia-Silicon Valley business links.
What email has done for business communications, we think the uLink Network does for in-person networking.
Intel has long struggled in the networking business after making a spate of acquisitions just before the dot-com sector imploded.
Amid busy days at the office and long trips for conferences and networking, being an entrepreneur or small business leader can be time-consuming and hectic.
Its stock has been depressed because of investor concern that social networking fueled by the Internet might displace the online job-search business model.
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The transition from CDs to digital files coupled with the rise of social networking has transformed the music business from a push economy to a user-curated, pull economy.
If you haven't done so already, consider spending a few days or weeks familiarizing yourself with social-networking sites as a consumer before creating profiles on any for your business.
And lots of them seem to be doing it over a few rounds--in the process, as one would hope, taking networking and business relationships more out into the open.
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Remember those rumors that the networking giant was shopping around its Scientific Atlanta cable set-top box business?
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Networking giant Cisco just announced the Cius, an iPad-like device for business users that will run Android and allow HD videoconferencing.
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