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• CEO Lynch Joins Autonomy Executive Exodus From HP
  8:37 PM EST Thu. May. 24, 2012
  Autonomy co-founder and CEO is leaving HP, and he will travel a path blazed by the information management vendor's entire C-level executive team.
• Polycom Corporate Branding Shifts Focus To Software
  4:00 PM EST Thu. May. 24, 2012
  Polycom is rebranding to focus on software's role in video and collaboration, and it is adding new training and marketing resources for partners.
• Oracle To Buy Vitrue For Its Social Media Reach
  12:01 PM EST Wed. May. 23, 2012
  Vitrue's social marketing and engagement platform will become part of the Oracle Cloud product lineup.
• EMC Buys Syncplicity, Adds Mobile Sync, Share Over Cloud To ECM
  8:14 PM EST Mon. May. 21, 2012
  EMC's acquisition of Syncplicity, which develops technology for synchronizing, sharing and accessing files over the cloud, is expected to give it the ability to allow mobile users to use any device to access protected content over the cloud.
• SAP To Partners: Make Your Mark In Mobile Solutions
  10:27 AM EST Tue. May. 15, 2012
  At its Sapphire Now conference, SAP unveils line of mobile applications and puts out the call for the channel to develop and sell mobile computing offerings.
• Five Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week
  10:30 AM EST Fri. May. 11, 2012
  For the week ending May 11, CRN looks at five companies that were either asleep at the wheel or just didn't make good decisions.
• Microsoft Extends Timeline For Solution Incentives Program
  12:12 PM EST Thu. May. 10, 2012
  Company also offers road map for Microsoft Partner Network competencies that will be covered under the next phase of the program that starts Jan. 1, 2013.
• Yes, That's ShoreTel's CEO Stage Diving: Scenes From M5's NYC Rock Blowout
  10:00 AM EST Thu. May. 10, 2012
  M5 Networks, recently acquired by ShoreTel, had a number of employees go head-to-head in an all out Battle of the Bands in NYC earlier this month, part of a team building exercise aided by the renowned School of Rock. CRN was there, too, as things got loud and interesting.
• Citrix Drives Synergy With Its Partners
  5:39 PM EST Wed. May. 09, 2012
  This week’s Citrix partner conference focuses on cloud and mobility.
• Symantec's Salem: Get Ready To Secure Mobile Devices And Apps
  7:57 PM EST Tue. May. 08, 2012
  Symantec President and CEO Enrique Salem opened this year's Symantec Vision with a warning about the importance of managing and controlling corporate data in the face of employees' growing tendency to use their own mobile devices to handle business matters.