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Research in Motion has announced its acquisition of social contacts service Gist, two months after Om said the two were in talks. The value of the acquisition was undisclosed, but the rationale is clear. With Gist, RIM adds a social element to its messaging capabilities. Read More »

ETacts, one of the many social CRM companies, is shutting down, according to an email sent out to its users. ETacts competes with the likes of Rapportive and Gist. The company, which was incubated by YCombinator had raised $650,000 from angel investors earlier this year. Read More »

 
 

RIM In Talks To Buy Gist

RIM, the company behind iconic mobile messaging platform, Blackberry is said to be in talks to acquire Seattle-based start-up Gist, according to industry sources. Gist, much like rivals Rapportive and eTacts creates profiles of people in your business network. Deal terms aren’t available at the time. Read More »

Gist, a free web service that provides a snapshot of information about your email contacts, is publicly launching in beta today. The web service pulls information about email contacts and the companies they work for from around 50,000 news sites and 20 million blogs and… Read More »

Cbeyond, the first VoIP IPO

Forget Vonage, the first VoIP IPO is actually going to be CBeyond, an enterprise VoIP service provider targeting the small and medium sized businesses. Good time to sell out, for this one is not long for the world given the looming competition from incumbents and… Read More »

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