They have invested funds together in a host of enterprises.
And, this takes me to the fourth reason why Americans are so concerned about government corruption: They see Washingto, D.C. as a cesspool of special interest lobbyists who have made elected officials so beholden to them that Congress is in permanent gridlock, the federal budget is a disaster, the economy is faltering, and a host of enterprises, who engage armies of lobbyists, are prospering.
In turn, Jive offers a host of enterprise-level project collaboration tools, Box.net offers storage, and a number of startups focus on providing businesses with internal Q&A capabilities.
Meanwhile, a host of social enterprises are using Salesforce tech to power their organisations - like Juhudi Kilimo, a micro-finance social enterprise, focusing on small, rural farmers in Kenya, and Honeycare, an organisation that helps farmers turn to honey production.
These trends have been hijacked and given added legitimacy by a host of commercial enterprises – including Slanj, STV, Cameron Toll shopping centre – that are looking for ways to ingratiate themselves with the local populace.
To finance their activities here, the insurgents have been diverting oil shipments from the Baiji refinery in northern Iraq, and skimming funds from a host of other enterprises, including a local cement plant and car dealerships, according to Lt. Col. Eric Welsh, the commander of the Second Battalion, Seventh Cavalry Regiment, which recently completed its tour of duty here.
"The more dominant Wal-Mart becomes," author Stacy Mitchell wrote in 2011, "the fewer opportunities there will be for farmers markets, food co-ops, neighborhood grocery stores, and a host of other enterprises that are beginning to fashion a better food system -- one organized not to enrich corporate middlemen, but to the benefit of producers and eaters".
"In addition, there are a number of wild cards, not the least of which is Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) working with IBM, and a host of other enterprise-focused suppliers including HP and Accenture.
In fact, the application is developing into a full-fledged social CRM, taking on Salesforce's Chatter, Jive, Socialcast and a host of other enterprise friendly social networks.
Facebook at Work competes against a host of other enterprise collaboration and communication products, ranging from Microsoft's Yammer and Salesforce's Chatter through to HipChat and Slack.
ToDoist for Business, which costs $3 per user per month, will compete with a host of other enterprise task management software, including Producteev, Asana, Flow, Trello, and Evernote.
