Researchers at Microsoft have developed mobile social networking software that lets users share personal information with friends but not the network itself.

近期，微软的研究人员表示他们已经开发出一套移动社交网络程序，它使得人们可以和好友分享私人信息而不暴露在网络中。

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Smart software vendors will take advantage of social and professional networking sites to target suitable consumer-workers.

聪明的软件生产商会利用社交和职业社交网站，瞄准相应的员工消费者。

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Google also stretches across the web like a giant spider, with a leg in everything from online search and E-mail to social networking and web-based software applications, or apps.

谷歌也在互联网上大举扩张，就像一只巨型蜘蛛，触脚遍及网络搜索、电子邮件、社交网络及网络软件应用。

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Simpson said location-based social networking software like Foursquare or Loopt helps marketers, advertisers and participants with the bigger picture.

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Its purchases this year include Slide, which makes social-networking software, and Social Deck, which makes social games for mobile devices.

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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.

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