Netvibes has just been acquired by European product design company Dassault Systèmes (sure this isn't the type of thing I usually write, but I like the founder Tariq Krim so bear with me here ...
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French startup Netvibes is an analytics dashboard that allows Fortune 500 companies to track their social media presence throughout the realtime webDassault is a "3D experience "design company so the acquisition actually seems jarring at first, but Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini tells me that the acquisition actually makes sense in terms of connecting what people say about a company to the design process through the Netvibes dashboard.