Gobble, gobble.

That's the sound you just heard as Taleo (profile; site) swooped in and gobbled up Vurv Technology (profile; site) for approximately $128.8 million in cash and stock.

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myStaffingPro increases the hiring manger’s response rate with a straightforward applicant feedback process. view article »

Hodes iQ has released Hodes iQ 5.0, what it calls a major upgrade for the talent management software suite. view article »

DTE Energy Resources, a subsidiary of DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE), rolled out SuccessFactors to manage its recruiting and compensation processes and goal setting and performance management for 455 employees. 

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SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFSF) announced that Insomniac Games is implementing SuccessPractices, SuccessFactors’ midmarket solution, to automate a host of people performance processes, facilitate feedback with employees, and drive business results through an engaged and motivated workforce. The system will soon be live for all 160 employees.

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iCIMS, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent management provider announced today that it has eclipsed the 600 client mark, adding such industry leaders as Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Jamba Juice, Room and Board, Genworth Financial, Crunch Fitness, and the nation’s largest job board to its client base. view article »

Peopleclick Monitor 6.0, the newly released version of Peopleclick’s Adverse Impact Analysis software, offers revised race and ethnicity categories helping organizations maintain compliance when hiring, promoting and terminating employees. view article »

Personified, the talent management and consulting subsidiary of CareerBuilder.com, has released a new Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) guide and a Staffing Industry Front Office guide to help employers navigate the ever-changing world of recruitment technology. The guides provide unbiased, side-by-side comparisons of ATS and Staffing Technology functionality.

Each guide costs $350 and can be ordered here.

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Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc. has released a new version of its SmartSearch talent acquisition and staffing management software. It adds enhancements to CRM with new Outlook toolbar, text messaging, VOIP, PDA access, and website portals.

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mindSCOPE Staffing and Recruiting Software has released an upgrade of CURA, its applicant tracking system designed for staffing agencies, search firms and recruiting services. CURA 5.0 has enhanced security features, improved mail merge and other enhancements to improve usability. view article »

myStaffingPro has introduced an Express Edition of its ATS for small businesses that need just the essentials in applicant tracking.

Designed to be easy to use. the system delivers fundamental features to post jobs, collect candidate resumes, and manage the hiring process.

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Bullhorn has experienced 29 percent growth (1,761 new users) among direct hire staffing and recruiting professionals so far in 2008, compared with the same period in 2007. view article »

iCIMS, a Software-as-a-Service provider of talent management solutions, announced today the company’s growing success among not-for-profit organizations. Non-profits such as The William J. Clinton Foundation, Mississippi Children’s Home Services, NCIRE - the Veterans Health Research Institute and the National Minority AIDS Council join over 600 worldwide companies who currently partner with iCIMS to help support their pre- and post-hire needs. view article »

Monster and staffing software vendor Bullhorn today unveiled a new online recruiting platform named PowerSource, based on Bullhorn’s new Integrated Resume Search technology. PowerSource combines real-time posting, shared apply and integrated resume search to enable faster, better quality placements.

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HR Services Inc. has released the next generation of myStaffingPro . Version 9.0. features a new look and feel, as well as more intuitive requisition management, the company reports. view article »

Jobscience, Inc., a provider of human capital and related business software, is now offering several on-demand recruitment applications through the Force.com Checkout pilot program. The series of applications are 100% natively developed on the Force.com platform, and are compatible with both Group and Professional editions of Salesforce CRM.

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EMPO Corporation, a Minnesota-based human resource outsourcing and professional employer organization, has become a reseller and servicer for SuccessFactors, Inc.. EMPO will resell, distribute, and configure SuccessFactors’ Professional Edition performance and talent management solution, specifically designed for businesses with 10-500 employees.
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The HR-XML Consortium has recertified applicant tracking system provider HR Services Inc. for conforming to the Consortium’s open data exchange standards for myStaffingPro. view article »

Dillistone Systems, provider of software and services to the executive search community, has released a new version of FILEFINDER.

It's new “Research Zone” technology allows users to identify and research senior executives who may be found in various websites – including newspaper aggregators, corporate websites and social networks. The Research Zone takes target company lists identified by the researcher, and returns potential candidates, biographies, compensation information and even organization charts.

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Aruspex, an on-demand provider of strategic workforce planning  announced the general availability of version 3.0 of its leading  software, CAPTure. view article »

Newton Software has debuted the Newton Affiliate Program, a third-party sales program for its Newton  recruiting technology.

The program allows qualified individuals to refer Newton to friends, contacts, and companies and earn a percentage of the revenue generated from each sale. Ideal affiliate partners include agency recruiters, contract recruiters, human resources consultants, and other service providers.

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Model N, a revenue management firm for the high tech and life sciences industries, has selected recruiting software from Newton. a view article »

Accela, a provider of software solutions for government, has implemented recruiting software from Newton Software. view article »

With the help of award-winning user interface design consultants, TalentDrive has emphasized usability in its newest update to its talent sourcing and management tool, TalentFilter.

The company says the new design coupled with enhanced technology has "improved the speed of searches, added new sites to source, and created a tool that requires literally no training."

Version 3.0 of TalentFilter was released in June.

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Little more than a week after Deutsche Bank downgraded Kenexa from a hold to a sell, Piper Jaffray reiterated its "overweight" rating of the stock. That means in the opinion of Piper Jaffray, Kenexa is a better value relative to other HR software tech firms.

The analyst recommendation also raised the target price for Kenexa from $9 a share to  $15.

In the 30 days prior to this post, Kenexa's stock has been trading mostly in a range between $10 and $11.50 a share.

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The SF New Tech Meetup will hear from Newton Software at the group's Aug. 12th meeting. The meetup is a regular events for techies, recruiters, investors, journalists, and anyone who just wants to see the hottest and newest in technology.

San Francisco’s community is the largest of it’s kind with nearly 4000 active members.

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Talent Technology predicts its resume processing software, Resume Mirror, will process 80 million resumes in 2009. This number is equivalent to 26 percent of the US population and equal to one resume for every two working people. view article »

iCIMS, one of the largest providers of SaaS talent acquisition solutions, is a finalist for two separate awards for customer support and client satisfaction.

The New York Enterprise Report's Small Business Awards named iCIMS a finalist in its Customer Service Best Practice category, while the UK-based Software Satisfaction Awards included iCIMS in its shortlist for Talent Management Software.

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ATS provider Newton Software introduced Newton Analytics this week. It's a data reporting platform enabling organizations to analyze large volumes of information in order to monitor the recruiting process and spot developing problems before they impact company performance.

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HR technology and outsourcing consultant Novus Origo has partnered with BrightMove to provide end-to-end project management and consulting services to Brightmove customers. view article »

Talent Technology Corporation, provider of award-winning Resume Mirror and HireDesk software, announced its new TechConnect program for HR software technology professionals.

TechConnect is a forum created and moderated by Talent Technology Corporation that brings together people passionate about delivering software products and solutions to the HR and recruiting industry.

 

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Bullhorn,a provider of front office staffing and recruiting software, has been selected by Peoplebank, the largest IT recruitment company in Australia. Peoplebank chose Bullhorn’s staffing and recruiting software to manage its front office activities, and integrate these into its back office system, for its 200+ staff at six offices across Australia. view article »