Cisco to buy social networking provider Five Across

“Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Five Across Inc., the company said late Thursday. San Jose-based Cisco did not disclose terms of the deal. San Francisco-based Five Across is a vendor in the social networking marketplace. Its platform, Connect Community Builder, is designed to let companies augment their Web sites with user-generated content such as audio, video, and photo sharing, blogs, podcasts and profiles. Five Across, which was founded in 2003, has 11 employees.”