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Leading up to the announcement there were plenty of rumours about a forthcoming Facebook Phone along with speculation that Facebook was moving into hardware. In such a dynamic space I would never rule anything out but it does seem sensible for Facebook to "Play" (pardon the pun) to their strengths.

Research from Bizness Apps has shown how mobile is transforming smaller businesses.

Last week saw ERP giant SAP go after CRM giant Salesforce.com, with the announcement of SAP Jam.

Ovum believes that the time has come to think seriously about enterprise social networking and consider its role within wider enterprise collaboration strategy.

There has been a huge amount written, and posted, around the “social enterprise” in recent weeks and months, even more so since Salesforce.com announced they have reached 150,000 users on Chatter.

It was rolled out a month ago to impressive fanfare in the US – now, Facebook’s App Center has been released worldwide.

In one of the shortest-lived app releases in history, Facebook’s Find Friends Nearby app was quietly released by developers, and then even more quietly pulled in a matter of days. But why?

Yammer, the social network which “brings the power of social networking to the enterprise”, has been bought by Microsoft for an estimated $1.2bn (£768m).