tag: social media management

HootSuite adds support for 750M more users: China’s Tencent Weibo, and Russia’s VK.com

April 25, 2013 8:20 AM John Koetsier

In perhaps the clearest sign yet that enterprise social media management tool HootSuite has major global ambitions, the company announced this morning that it is adding support for managing China's most popular microblogging platform, Tencent Weibo, and Russia's most popular social media network, VK.com.

Shift attacks Salesforce, Adobe with ‘open marketing cloud,’ an app store for digital marketing tools

April 9, 2013 9:48 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Salesforce says it has the world's only unified social marketing suite. Adobe says its marketing cloud is a single service that includes everything digital marketers need to get ahead.

Shift begs to differ.

HootSuite unveils swanky new digs, complete with yoga studio, pup tent offices, and nap room (gallery)

April 5, 2013 11:25 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Dogs, stumps, pup tents and bikes, the new HootSuite offices in Vancouver has them all. And then some.

Social media management startup Sprinklr grabs $15M from Intel & Battery to outclass Radian6

February 5, 2013 6:00 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Social media management startup Sprinklr has raised $15 million in second-round funding to help it continue to dominate in the social management space and keep an edge over services like Radian6, Wildfire, and Involver.

Killing it in enterprise via the Dropbox strategy, Offerpop adds new ‘big data’ product

January 21, 2013 11:08 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Offerpop is taking a page from Dropbox. Or Salesforce.com. Or, if you want to go old-school, the personal computer itself.

Salesforce adds Klout, Kred, & 18 more tools to Marketing Cloud for better social analytics

October 19, 2012 5:00 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Salesforce has added a wider array of services to its Marketing Cloud toolset, including Klout, Kred, Kanjoya, and PeekAnalytics, to help businesses not only listen to customers but also better understand them.

SproutSocial grows revenue 750% as social media bursts out of the marketing department

October 9, 2012 8:08 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Most two-year-olds are growing fast. But few are growing as quickly as social media management service SproutSocial, which is riding the wave of social media escaping the marketing department and penetrating the entire enterprise.

HootSuite acquires Seesmic and is transitioning those customers to HootSuite

September 5, 2012 11:21 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

HootSuite announced today that it has acquired social media tool maker Seesmic.

Six things you must include in every enterprise social media proposal

July 3, 2012 9:27 AM Jeremy Epstein

Guest Post

Corporate social media strategists at global brands are confronting a new set of tough challenges. Enterprise executives are beginning to take notice of the socially empowered customer and looking to meet those demands.

Now, leading social strategists are starting to …

Following Vitrue buy, Oracle to acquire social monitoring biz Collective Intellect

June 5, 2012 8:39 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Oracle has agreed to buy social media monitoring startup Collective Intellect, further showing that it wants to own the social management space after recently agreeing to buy Vitrue for $300 million.

In light of Salesforce’s recent purchase of Buddy Media …

Meet Sprinklr, the biggest social media management biz you’ve never heard of

April 12, 2012 2:40 PM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Funding daily: small social networks, kid-friendly games, and college search tool

March 29, 2012 4:23 PM Sarah Mitroff

Sarah Mitroff

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …