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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

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billion acquisition of LinkedIn. This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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LinkedIn Buys Fliptop: Why Account Based Marketing and Predictive Analytics Are a Natural Fit

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Predictive analytics vendor Fliptop today announced its acquisition by B2B social network LinkedIn. The original inspiration for the planned post was a set of three back-to-back conversations I had last Friday with one ABM vendor and two predictive analytics companies (none of which were Fliptop or LinkedIn).

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Everstring Takes Another $65 Million and (More Important) Launches Predictive Ad Targeting Solution

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But the new Everstring product isn’t the usual sharing of a prospect list with an ad platform, as in display retargeting, Facebook Custom Audiences , or LinkedIn Lead Accelerator. These were typically sourced from public information such as Web sites, job postings, and social media.

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Nimble Adds Social Data to CRM

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I had an intriguing demonstration yesterday from social CRM vendor Nimble. Since “social CRM” could mean just about anything, it’s important to explain what Nimble actually does: it combines traditional contact management with automated access to social media information about those contacts.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

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Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label.

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Acxiom Uses Social Media Data to Segment Email Lists

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Summary: Acxiom's new social media marketing tool gathers public data about social media links and uses it to segment email lists. It's a different, and arguably more practical, approach to helping marketers take advantage of social media. But, on talking to the company, it turns out there is a pretty interesting product here.

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Bizo and DemandBase Lead B2B Marketing Automation to Web Advertising and Beyond

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These can integrate with Demandbase’s own network of Web publishers that will accept its ads and with other ad exchanges that connect to their own, larger publisher networks). Bizo then matches segment members to Bizo identities and delivers Web site, advertising or social messages tailored to each segment.