Lithium acquires Keibi to help monitor its corporate social networks
Given the market, this deal makes sense: Corporate social network builder Lithium Technologies has acquired social content-filtering service Keibi Technologies for an undisclosed amount.
Lithium, to be clear, builds consumer-facing social networks for major brands. These are not corporate intranets, these are sites that come with a bunch of plain-vanilla features like profiles and forums, where users can ask questions, share information and get answers from companies including Dell, Motorola and Symantec.
In total, Emeryville, Calif.-based Lithium… Continue Reading
Former Yahoo executive takes CEO job at Bunchball
In the past few years, Bunchball has figured out how to get consumers more engaged in web sites by making them as addictive as video games. Now it has recruited a former Yahoo executive to move on its game plan.
Peter Daboll, former chief of insights at Yahoo, has joined Bunchball as chief executive, becoming part of the official brain drain at the search giant. Rajat Paharia, founder of Bunchball, will stay aboard as chief product… Continue Reading
LiveWorld launches LiveBar, a way to add community to every web site
Big companies aren’t always that good at creating engaging online communities for their customers. LiveWorld hopes there’s a market in handling that task. And now it is releasing LiveBar, which is a way to overlay bare bones social networking functions on any web page within minutes.
LiveBar isn’t much to look at. It’s just a black bar that runs across the bottom of a web page. But it enables a company to put Web 2.0 features… Continue Reading
Lithium scores money to grow corporate social networks
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Lithium Technologies, which builds and operates social networks for enterprises, has raised $12 million in venture capital today.
The company’s clients include Dell, AT&T, Sony PlayStation, Univision, and PayPal — all businesses with large user communities and heavy customer service and product support needs. Lithium’s community sites are designed to help these clients streamline the interaction with their customers and improve brand loyalty. To get an idea of how the sites function, take a look at… Continue Reading