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Comic-Con 2012 begins Thursday night! As thousands continued to invade San Diego for a geek-ed out weekend, we have your complete schedule for everything TV tonight!

Here's the scoop on when and where your favorite TV show will host their panels, along with what participants will be discussing! Keep checking back throughout the weekend to get the latest TV gossip and news from Comic-Con!

Thursday, July 12 Panels

"Psych" (USA) 2:15 p.m. - Ballroom 20: James Roday (Shawn), Dule Hill (Gus), Corbin Bernsen (Henry), Maggie Lawson (Juliet), Timothy Omundson (Carlton), Kristen Nelson (Karen), and executive producers Steve Franks, Chris Henze and Kelly Kulchak

This is "Psych's" fourth consecutive year at Comic-Con. Attendees will get to see a never-before-seen "first look" at this fall's season seven.

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"Teen Wolf" (MTV) 2:30 p.m. - Room 6A: Tyler Posey (Scott), Dylan O'Brien (Stiles), Crystal Reed (Allison), Tyler Hoechlin (Derek), Holland Roden (Lydia) and Colton Haynes (Jackson) and executive producer Jeff Davis

"Teen Wolf" will be giving fans an exclusive first-look at a brand new episode. Those attending that panel will also get to see the world premiere trailer of "The Inbetweeners," MTV's new scripted comedy series.

"Beauty and the Beast" (CW), 3:30 p.m. - Ballroom 20: Kristin Kreuk (Catherine) Jay Ryan (Vincent) and executive producers Jennifer Levin, Sherri Cooper, Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders

"Beauty and the Beast" is a new show coming to the CW this fall. The series is described as a "modern adaptation of the beloved fairy tale." Those attending will get an exclusive viewing of the first episode.

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Oracle recently announced its plans to buy social marketing startup Involver soon after the acquisition of social marketing vendor Vitrue in May. This move, according to reports, is an add up to its growing collection of customer service software aimed at the social media.

Oracle is not the first company to jump on the social media bandwagon. Many of the major vendors worldwide are aspiring to take a lead in this relatively new market domain -- Social media. Today, analysis of social media traffic is an in-demand, niche area in the real-time analytics market. Research firm IDC states that demand for enterprise social software will grow strongly in the coming years, as more organizations implement the products to improve collaboration and communication primarily among employees, but also with customers.

Following the market scenario, major IT vendors have made big or small acquisition to boost up their social media arsenal around various technologies and verticals. Here are some of them --

Salesforce.com: Targets Social Enterprises

This cloud-computing giant said Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canadian shared-browsing technology startup, GoInstant, that provides co-browsing and social experience for enterprise customers and consumers.

There is a tremendous potential for social enterprises to benefit from what the GoInstant has built, particularly when combined with salesforce.com's industry-leading social, mobile, and open apps and technology, Marcel LeBrun, senior vice president at Salesforce.com said in a blog post.

Microsoft: Securing Social Network

Microsoft announced its definitive agreement to acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash.

Launched in 2008, Yammer now reportedly has more than 5 million corporate users, including employees at 85 percent of the Fortune 500. Yammer's service will allow employees to join a secure, private social network for free and then makes it easy for companies to convert a grassroots movement into companywide strategic initiative.

IBM: Intelligence into Social Networks

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Votigo's new social marketing suite includes a promotions manager from which marketers can launch photo and video contests, sweepstakes, and other promotional apps in multiple languages across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks. It works in both the mobile environment and the Web.

Votigo has debuted a full-fledged social marketing suite that builds around its original core functionality of social promotions.

The 6-year-old company is offering a price point that is reasonable for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as functionality that can scale to enterprise level fairly easily, Mike La Rotonda, co-CEO and founder, told CRM Buyer.

"We have extended our engagement apps and added a full conversation manager that allows you to monitor the conversation from your customers across the social channel," he said. "You can post messages out to Twitter and Facebook and can see what people are responding to."

The company is also rolling out a social CRM feature set, which in its first iteration will focus on managing social contacts.

"Longer term," La Rotonda said, "we envision that platform plugging into other CRM products such as Salesforce.com or Sugar CRM."

The suite includes a number of features. Chief among them is a promotions manager from which marketers can launch photo and video contests, sweepstakes, and other promotional apps in multiple languages across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks. It works in both the mobile environment and the Web.

The promotions manager touches on the full promotion cycle: from creating the apps, to sharing and publicizing them to social audiences, to moderating submissions and fan commentary.

Another feature is the conversation manager, which serves as an interface to manage two-way conversations with fans on social media.

Besides managing social contacts, the social CRM piece includes features that track engagement and influence, and target special offers and communications. There is also analytics functionality, allowing users to measure and assess campaigns across the various social media platforms -- and email as well.

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Votigo Ventures Into Full-Scale Social Marketing

BEIJING, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- GC-Rise Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, in which European healthcare venture capital firm INVENTAGES holds a majority stake, has launched a gynecologic social networking site, the first such in China, in a move to promote the academic exchange.

When social networking is becoming the most populous tool for daily communications nowadays, GC-rise keeps pace with the times and launches the Beauty Microblogs joining hands with medical information services provider 91Huayi.com.

The microblogs, which aims to build itself as China's biggest social networking site in gynecologic circle, will host around 100,000 doctors who could exchange academic ideas, share medial cases on the platform.

"The Beauty Microblogs will serve as a social networking platform in gynecologic world, further enabling cross-regional communications in both academics and clinical trials." said doctors.

Some seasoned experts in gynecologic circle will be interviewed by Beauty Microblogs on a regular basis and doctors can learn the latest technology and academic moves through the platform as well as making friends.

This is not GC-Rise's first initiative aiming to contribute to the women's health industry on the academic world, the company earlier this year sponsored a nation-wide anti-tumors academic exchange event initiated by Committee of Gynecological Oncology, Chinese Anti-Cancer Association.

About GC-Rise Pharmaceutical Co. LtdGC-Rise Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, established in 2008, is a wholly-owned foreign enterprise invested by INVENTAGES, a major European healthcare and biotechnology venture capital investor, focuses on women's health. Taking "Devoted to human healthcare and a better life" as our mission, the company makes full use of the business networks of our strategic partners in the United States, Europe and Japan, their rich experiences in clinical development, clinical trials and registration in China and their strong strength in distributions, hospital sales and marketing, so as to provide safe, novel and highly efficient medical products and treatment ideas for Chinese women patients.

Please log on http://www.gc-rise.com/ to know more information.

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Liar is Thursdays word on the U.S. presidential election campaign.

The L word is used against Barack Obama in a TV ad released Thursday by the Mitt Romney campaign.

Meanwhile, the Obama campaign referred to Romneys big Bain lie following a hard-hitting Boston Globe investigation published today.

Mitt Romney stayed at Bain three years longer than he stated, reads the Boston Globe headline.

Mr. Romney has said he left Bain Capital in 1999, but the Globe cites government documents that show the former Massachusetts governor still listed as CEO for another three years.

The timing of Romneys departure from Bain is a key point of contention because he has said his resignation in February 1999 meant he was not responsible for Bain Capital companies that went bankrupt or laid off workers after that date, writes the Boston Globe.

The Romney campaign says the Boston Globe report is not accurate -- but that didnt stop the Obama campaign.

Romney hid the fact that he left Bain 3 years later than he claimed to avoid responsibility for outsourcing, etc, tweeted deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter.

Based on Globe report, either Bain filed false SEC docs about Mitts status, or [the] campaign [is] making false statements now, tweeted top Obama adviser David Axelrod.

Mr. Romneys tenure at Bain Capital has been a focus of reporters and the Obama campaign and it continues to dog the Republican presidential nominee.

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