Well it looks increasingly likely that we’ll see Seesmic commit to becoming an enterprise social media tool with news that the company has taken $4 million investment from Salesforce and a Softbank Group company. Seesmichas previously raised $12 million from a roster of high profile investors including Ron Conway, Atomico Ventures and Steve Case. The company originated as a short social video sharing service, but ‘pivoted’ into the social media communication application space in 2009....

Since Steve Jobs announced he was tostep down as the CEO of Apple, the media has been talking to those close to him to analyse how the company will perform now that its co-founder and former leader is no longer running the company. Bloomberg spoke with Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc, who has had a close relationship with Jobs in the past, who revealed that the Apple co-founder had such a profound effect on him that he decided to “gift” the rights to the domain and sign over trademark ownership of the term “App Store” when Apple launched its own smartphone application market....

Some big news coming out of the productivity sphere today asSalesforcehas just acquired the social production platform called Manymoon. According tothe Manymoon blog, the company presently serves over 50,000 companies with its integration to Google Apps, LinkedIn and the Chrome Web Store. It appears that, instead of an acquisition of talent, it’s more a matter of adding value to Salesforce: We’ll still be the Manymoon that helps you get work done....

To Samasource Founder, Leila Chiriyath Janah, the future of poverty alleviation around the world is “microwork.” Through microwork, poor people around the world can do simple computer based tasks for technology companies such as Google, LinkedIn and Intuit for a fee thus helping lift them out of poverty. “We’re creating an entirely new type of company. By providing work to those who’ve never had it, we’ve been able to transform communities of people,” said Janah in arecent interviewwith Forbes....

A few days ago, Brazilian online video platformSamba Techreceived the Rising Star Award at Chinese tech conferenceCHINICT. So how did this Latin American startup get there in a few years? Gustavo Caetano, Samba Tech’s founder and CEO, just returned from Beijing and shared with us the company’s story and projects. From Samba Mobile to Samba Tech Samba Tech was born from Gustavo Caetano’s first startup, Samba Mobile. In 2003, he was still a student in Rio de Janeiro when he bought a new cell phone with a color display....