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• REA Group gets Jive talkin’

  Melbourne-based REA Group (ASX:REA), operator of property website realestate.com.au, has used a collaboration software platform to help its employees participate in projects and cut down on the use of email.

• Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism

  Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the chip and hardware sector are putting a positive spin on year-end news for the tech sector.

• SAP spells out vision for HANA-driven software architecture

  SAP executives provided new details about the company's plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software architecture during an event in Boston on Tuesday.

• Serious bugs force SAP to put brakes on community site upgrade

  SAP has abruptly put the brakes on a planned upgrade to its massive community network portal, which was set to be rolled out this month, due to a number of lingering, "critical" bugs.

• SAP co-CEO talks new product areas, in-memory computing

  SAP could be entering significant new product categories soon, judging from remarks made by co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe on Thursday.

• Has Oracle stopped making big acquisitions?

  As midyear approaches, Oracle has made only two small acquisitions. This is out of character for a vendor that has made buying other companies a core growth strategy, doing as many as 13 deals each year since 2005, for a total of roughly 70 since then.

• Jive buys OffiSync to deepen links with Microsoft apps

  Jive Software has acquired OffiSync, whose technology links Microsoft desktop applications with cloud-based enterprise social collaboration suites.

• Jive Software buys data-mining vendor for social analytics

  Jive Software is buying data-mining startup Proximal Labs in a move that will help it derive deeper insights into social-networking data, the companies announced Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.

• Business will get more social in 2011, IDC says

  Businesses will increasingly turn to social networking tools in 2011, but there will be fewer social platforms for companies to choose from, according to predictions from IT research firm IDC.

• Novell unveils enterprise collaboration platform beta

  Novell today took the wraps off a beta version of Novell Vibe -- its new social collaboration.