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Social is one of the hottest trends in enterprise software, and many companies are considering rolling out products and services that make it easier for employees to share information with each other and communicate with customers and suppliers. Social software covers a lot of ground, but in general, products in this field enable people to share ideas and documents, find expertise and connect with colleagues, and communicate interactively with others. Gartner reports that “social software technologies as a whole are among the most hyped in the industry at the moment,” but is quick to warn companies that different social software technologies are “at different levels of maturity.” Meanwhile,

I have a positive outlook for 2012. But it's more important than ever to map out the goals you want to stick to.

Too much inventory and not enough demand can cripple a business of any size. Let this be your warning. When AMR , the parent of American Airlines, declared bankruptcy earlier this week, few should have been surprised

Professional basketball is run by smart businesspeople. So why do they think they're exempt from the law of supply and demand? The NBA lockout came about because the league won’t admit that it has the same problem as football, hockey and baseball: Too many teams for the customer base to support

Four bills are up for consideration, including ones that allow up to $2 million from crowd-funding sites. Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives quickly advanced four bills that would make it easier for small businesses to line up capital.

The international wireless association that represents the wireless communications industry is officially recommending to employers to let workers "bring their own device to work." I put that in quotation marks because its actually the name of CTIA's formal campaign being pushed at this week's Enterprise & Application conference in San Diego. So, do you agree? Should employers let their workers use their personal smartphones and tablets for work

Tomorrow AOL co-founder Steve Case will meet with Obama and his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Watch the video for a preview of his job-creation recommendations.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Harvard have created a device that may make it easier to isolate and study tiny particles such as viruses.

Starting a business? You should write a business plan--even if you're not raising money any time soon

[Sound clip] That's the future sound filling city streets.

By increasing the volume of "spray-and-pray" candidates, is LinkedIn really helping the hiring process?

So-called orthognathic surgery can curb pain and excessive tooth wear and make it easier to chew and swallow

San Francisco, with a large population crammed into a very small footprint, can be notoriously hard to park in. But, as it's also one of the tech-savviest cities in the country, they've come up with a solution to make it easier to find a place to leave your car and to better value parking places

Conscious that as leader in online advertising its systems sometimes contain ads to illicit services, Google is tightening up its policies . Just as the U.S. authorities tighten up their stance against piracy and counterfeiting online, Google has revealed that it's taking a number of steps to "tune" its systems to "keep out the bad guys" who use its systems to advertise counterfeit goods and services.