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Forces Cultural and Process Shifts from the Inside Out, IDC Research Finds

FRAMINGHAM, MA. - January 26, 2010 - Recent IDC research on the intersection of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and collaboration shows that we are entering a time of significant cultural and process change for businesses, driven by the emergence of the social Web.

According to a new IDC survey, 57% of U.S. workers use social media for business purposes at least once per week.

Over 250 participants will actively tweet from the meeting http://twitter.com/davos

Davos, Switzerland, 25 January 2010 – The World Economic Forum is once again making full use of the major social media platforms at the upcoming Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland giving unprecedented access to the wider public.

The general public can actively participate in a number of sessions through video submissions, blog comments, tweets and quick polls.

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Den Networks Limited (DEN) has launched an interactive TV micro blogging application, Blog.telly, and a 24 X 7 music service for the digital cable TV market

MUMBAI, INDIA – September 24th, 2009 - NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that DEN (DEN Networks Limited), a leading Indian digital cable TV operator, has launched two innovative services on the NDS MediaHighway® platform.

DEN has recently launched an interactive TV micro blogging application, Blog.telly, after the launch of its 24x7 music service in January of this year.

18 million adult Internet users to use Twitter in 2009

NEW YORK (Sept. 14, 2009)—eMarketer has released an updated forecast of US adult Twitter users through 2010. The new numbers surpass earlier estimates.

In 2009, there will be 18 million US adults who access Twitter on any platform at least monthly. That represents a 200% increase over 2008 levels. Usage will reach 26 million US adults in 2010, a further 44% climb.

In 2010, eMarketer expects 15.5% of all US adult Web users to use the microblogging service.