Big Blue is this week hosting a worldwide customer meeting in Orlando, at which it will show its latest social software for mobile business.

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Its purchases this year include Slide, which makes social-networking software, and Social Deck, which makes social games for mobile devices.

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OpenFeint seed investor Peter Relan is fed up with his former creation's lack of existence -- the open source software once powered the social integration behind many mobile games.

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For its part, Accel says it will continue to invest across cloud services and next generation infrastructure, social media and e-commerce, gaming, software and open mobile.

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Silicon Valley is also home to a new generation of enterprise software startups harnessing momentum in cloud services, social networks, mobile computing and big data to introduce fundamentally new ways for businesses to do just about everything.

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SiliconANGLE has reported that the advertising business on the mobile and social side is in transition due to innovations in big data (Hadoop) and software-led infrastructure (like Flash Memory).

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The size and scope of Apple's developer program remains a bit of a mystery, but Apple has already shown off demos from online auctioneer eBay, mobile social-networking start-up Loopt, blogging service TypePad, the Associated Press and game developer Pangea Software.

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The size and scope of Apple's developer program remains a bit of a mystery, but Apple has already shown off demos from online auctioneer eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), mobile social-networking start-up Loopt, blogging service TypePad, the Associated Press and game developer Pangea Software.

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So it is not in the social network business, it is not in telecoms or enterprise software, but believes it is a mobile business.

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