http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/cisco-buys-five-across/ The Business of Technology Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:44:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/cisco-buys-five-across/#comment-893139 Will Collaboration Pit Cisco Against Microsoft, Google? - GigaOM Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:55:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/cisco-buys-five-across/#comment-893139 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/cisco-buys-five-across/#comment-828109 Monster.com Pays $61M to Get into Social Networking - GigaOM Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:44:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/cisco-buys-five-across/#comment-828109 <p>[...] 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 [...]</p> [...] 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 [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/cisco-buys-five-across/#comment-87725 GigaOM » Cisco bets wrongly, on Social Networks Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:54:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/cisco-buys-five-across/#comment-87725 <p>[...] 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 [...]</p> [...] 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 [...]

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