Facebook puts workplace social networks on notice

epa05180317 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Facebook Innovation Hub in Berlin, Germany, 25 February 2016. Zuckerberg presented studies on Artificial Intelligence inter alia. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the social networking giant Facebook, has arrived in Berlin for two days of talks as Germany debates how to tackle online xenophobia and hate speech amid an influx of refugees. Facebook agreed in December 2015 to abide by German laws on hate speech on their sites in Germany, responding to complaints by the government that they are too slow to take down xenophobic abuse posted online. EPA/KAY NIETFELD

NEW YORK: Facebook is hoping to win new corporate friends. Mark Zuckerberg's US$300bil (RM1.23tril) social-networking giant is rolling out a separate platform for businesses informed by what it has learned from its 1.6 billion members. 

Microsoft's Yammer, hip messaging provider Slack Technologies and the likes of Jive Software have been put on notice.