Yammer competitor Moxie makes its service free

Forget about the cloud storage wars; competition is fiercer than ever in the cloud collaboration space.

Yammer, Jive, Microsoft Sharepoint are ‘blank pieces of paper,’ says Zeppelin

What if you could have all of your employees, cloud applications, documents, files, and customer data in one place? Zeppelin thinks it can actually capture them all in a jar.

NewsGator CEO JB Holston: at the center of the Yammer-Microsoft crosshairs

Swap chairs for a moment.

You’re the chief executive of NewsGator, a key Microsoft partner in enterprise social software. You’ve just been named a Microsoft Globally Managed Partner. And both of your key product lines contain the words “for SharePoint” …

5 more tech deals that need to happen

Earlier this month, Microsoft made the deal of the year when it agreed to purchase enterprise social networking service Yammer. Meanwhile, the IPO market is dead after Facebook’s much-discussed botched issuance and subsequent valuation slide. Suddenly, going public is out, …

Original Yammer investor George Zachary speaks out on the Microsoft deal

Microsoft formally announced the acquisition of enterprise social networks provider Yammer for $1.2 billion yesterday.

VentureBeat talked to George Zachary of Charles River Ventures about how the deal happened and what the future might hold for Yammer. Charles Rivers is …

The enterprise-social market leader no one’s talking about

Pop quiz: Name a company that competes in the enterprise social software market with the likes of Jive and Yammer but is far bigger than either of those two solutions, with over 100 million people using it worldwide, including millions …

Jive still makes enterprise tech cool, reports Q4 earnings

Jive Software reported its first earnings as a public company today, and introduced a secret new product called “Project Thunder.”

In the fourth quarter of 2011, Jive increased its revenue by 53 percent over the same period last year, earning …

Live tonight: Steve Wozniak, Leonard Nimoy highlight an evening of disruptive tech (updated)

Update: Scroll down to see a gallery of Nimoy and Wozniak on the DEMO stage!

Come kick off the new year with a celebration of disruptive enterprise technology featuring two huge geek heroes: Steve Wozniak and Leonard Nimoy.

The VentureBeat …

Duh: New Jive study shows social is pretty important in business

Business social networking company Jive published a study conducted by Penn Schoen Berland today that shows more than three-fourths of the top executives in large enterprises consider collaboration software like Yammer and Huddle a top priority.

The study also found …