Cisco Buys Five Across

Liz Gannes, Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 10:02 PM PT Comments (3)

Cisco said tonight it had bought Five Across, a white-label social networking platform, for undisclosed terms. Last we remember, the company made desktop software for blog publishing, but that was a long time ago.

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March 3rd, 2007
11:54 AM PT

GigaOM » Cisco bets wrongly, on Social Networks said:

[...] few months after switch-and-router maker Cisco Systems acquired a content-management start-up, Five Across, the San Jose giant is going to acquire the assets of [...]

January 4th, 2008
1:44 PM PT

Monster.com Pays $61M to Get into Social Networking - GigaOM said:

[...] into business networking makes a little more sense than, for example, Cisco buying Tribe.net and Five Across, but the purchase price seems rather high. Affinity was just getting off the ground and had raised [...]

August 11th, 2008
5:55 AM PT

Will Collaboration Pit Cisco Against Microsoft, Google? - GigaOM said:

[...] In order to fulfill Chambers’ desire to be a collaboration king, Cisco has to compete with these guys aggressively. The problem is that it doesn’t have either the software or the web DNA of its fellow tech behemoths. It has made some hesitant steps. It bought WebEx to move deeper into web conferencing, nabbed Tribe.net in order to get a closer look at social networking, and acquired Five Across in order to beef up its content management skills. [...]

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