[Asiajin] Cybozu Aims At Business-oriented Social Network, And Something Different From Facebook

Asiajin 10/27/2010

Cybozu Inc., a Tokyo-based package vendor having developed a web-based groupware intended to Japanese SMEs for more than a decade, introduced their brand new SaaS edition of the groupware last November, which is called Cybozu Live.

This week, Mr. Yoshihisa Aono, the CEO of Cybozu Inc., unveiled the plan on how the service goes from now on, and it seems changing to a new one based on the concept of not a groupware but a business-oriented social network platform. It has engaged 41 thousand users since the service’s launch last November despite admission to the service is only by invitation only during the period. Finally it’s opened to everyone this week.
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