Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.

Irvine-based startup Socialcast recently landed a second round of venture funding and plans to head north to expand. Socialcast raised $1.4 million in venture funding from True Ventures, which has an ...

Unified Communications and Social Networking: at first sight, it’s an odd combination. Odd because of the functionality overlap and also because it’s hard to see IT departments having anything to do ...

I can certainly see an internal use for social-network-like capabilities. Large companies that want to promote internal knowledge sharing have tried to create “communities of interest” for a long time ...

IBM is putting its social-networking strategy to a live test with developers and partners by rolling out a set of social-networking tools those two groups can use to collaborate. Both platforms, which ...

Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like ...

Research in Motion Ltd. today announced it will support IBM Lotus Connections on its BlackBerry smart phones, giving users access to the new social software for business. The announcement, made at ...

Leveraging advances in communication and integration, a new kind of application — corporate social networking — is being folded into the CRM feature set. Corporate social networking software measures, ...

Many large companies are embracing internal social networks, but for the most part, they’re not getting much good from them, according to analyst firm Gartner. By 2016, some 50 percent of enterprises ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is continuing to buy its way into social networking, acquiring some assets of the company that operates Tribe.net while letting the site remain independent. Cisco is continuing to ...

The line between content management and social networking software is getting very blurry. Alfresco debuted a new release of its open-source and commercial content management software Wednesday with ...

7 things you need to know in tech today. LockerDome Creative Director Rasheed Sulaiman, also founder of the startup Goparti, who was recently featured in a Bloomberg series about what he wears to work ...