Facebook actually has some nice tools and analytics specific to business pages.

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Nice boxes like that take some selling, and Yara figures EMC has a good partner in SAS, which does a nice business selling analytics and tools (like graphics) for sales and marketing, among other things.

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While the Facebook status update is nice, the social network is looking to build a much broader set of tools for people to communicate.

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So one company that has found a nice balance is Clarizen, which is a provider of cloud-based project management tools.

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