With Anybots' web-based interface, collaboration can happen at light speed without the cost and wasted time of business travel.

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Moderated by Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, among other books, panelists were unanimous in their belief that the ubiquity of the Internet, along with the emergence of Web-based platforms that enable mass collaboration and crowd-sourcing, hold the key to rapid creation and development of new startups.

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From award-winning IP communications to mobility, customer care, Web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and interoperable telepresence experiences, Cisco brings together integrated network-based collaboration solutions based on open standards.

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