Web Office vendor Etelos announced recently that it is enabling enterprise customers to white-label the Etelos platform, via a multi-product offering called the Etelos Platform Suite (detailed below). Up till now, Etelos has been a company that offers a wide range of apps and services to developers and vendors - it took care of everything from billing to customer management. Most of that service offering was done via a proprietary platform. Essentially, now Etelos is letting other companies use that platform to do the very same thing.
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This is interesting, because Etelos has in many ways built a business off the back of other platforms - such as Google Apps, iPhone, Netvibes, Pageflakes and Windows Live. Full story...
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