At a recent networking event in Seattle, one lead developer already noted how difficult it is to find strong talent in the region as the presence of so many strong startups and companies make recruiting so difficult.
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Sophisticated home automation solutions have been available for decades, but recent advances in networking and mobile technology enable RedEye Pro to bring these features to a broader market.
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At a stroke, 3Com could provide the credibility and access to customers that matter in America, as well as helping to bind in Siemens's recent data-networking acquisitions, such as Argon and Redstone Communications.
Another more recent example is social networking Web site Facebook, whose popularity has soared since it opened its platform to outside developers.
While companies like Facebook and Zynga have been successful in acquiring millions of engaged users, the recent plummet in social networking stocks shows that these factors alone do not lay the foundation for longevity.
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According to a recent survey by business networking organization ExecuNet, 90% of recruiters used a search engine to learn more about candidates and 46% of recruiters had eliminated a candidate based on information they found online.
While a lot of attention has been paid on wireless networking in recent months--Apple Airport and Lucent Technologies ' (nyse: LU - news - people) Orinoco products come to mind--some of the products have been criticized for being difficult for the average home users to set up.
Nokia has bought online-mapping and mobile-networking businesses in recent years to reinforce its offerings.
Recent Cisco efforts in home networking could make the personal computer little more than a dumb terminal, undercutting Microsoft.
Given some recent signs of weakness in the networking sector, I suspect the Street is happy to see the company hit estimates, even with slightly soft guidance.
The love-in of all three main party leaders with social-networking websites like Mumsnet in recent weeks was hilarious.
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Although the phenomenon of the social networking site is a fairly recent one, there have been studies by sociologists on subjects similar to this.
Essentially an iPhone app, it leverages recent developments in location awareness and social networking to keep tabs on both friends and enemies in the field, displaying positions on maps in real time -- all the while enabling secure communications between soldiers.
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Besides Ooyala, recent births include Twitter, a social- networking site founded by the people who made Google's blog service, and WeatherBill, a site that lets you hedge business risk against downpours.
The slide, especially when coupled with other recent IPOs, such as that of Chinese social networking company RenRen, seemed to call into question the health of an IPO market that otherwise appeared resurgent.
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Over recent years, IBM has also built up its social networking technology, including real-time awareness of where its people are, and how to reach them.
According to a recent Pew survey, 32 percent of people 65 or older use social networking sites, compared with 83 percent of those 18 to 29.
With many small business owners saying sales are down in a recent survey by the National Small Business Association, strategic use of social networking sites seems like a good way for many to pull in new business from customers they may not know are out there.
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Federal prosecutors and securities regulators have brought dozens of insider-trading cases involving hedge funds in recent years, often focusing on third-party service providers engaged in expert-networking services.
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At a recent corporate executive summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, PR company Edelman revealed that social networking shaved 1% off its bottom line by encouraging its staff to use such websites as a recruitment tool.
The force said that its online social networking policy was being updated "to take into account a number of recent social media cases nationally and lessons learned elsewhere as we recognise social media is a fast-changing environment".
Recent policy changes are fundamentally changing that relationship and there is little guidance on what social networking sites can and cannot do and what disclosures are necessary to consumers.
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The advent of social networking websites means it is increasingly hard to achieve a complete news blackout on anything - as the recent row over Twitter and privacy "super-injunctions" showed.
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