GFI, a provider of network security, content security, and messaging software, has announced it has secured investment from Insight Venture Partners.
Posted Oct 28, 2005
EMC Corporation, a provider of information management and storage, and Captiva Software Corporation, a provider of input management solutions, have announced a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire Captiva.
Posted Oct 25, 2005
Blogging is all grown up… or at least enough so to have its very own conference. Media professionals, C-level executives, and amateur bloggers alike attended the BlogOn conference, held October 17-18 at NYC’s Copacabana. According to conference organizer Suw Charman, BlogOn received between 350 and 400 attendees each day from organizations like AOL, DaimlerChrysler, Disney, Intel, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Sprint, and Yahoo!.
Posted Oct 25, 2005
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Endeavor Information Systems, a provider of library management software and a wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier, have announced an expanded partnership to create global digital repositories and preservation technologies which protect critical educational, cultural, and historical information.
Posted Oct 21, 2005
Ovid Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer business and global provider of electronic medical, scientific, and academic information research solutions, has announced the launch of a new multi-language content platform, Ovid Lingua.
Posted Oct 21, 2005
Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have announced an agreement to connect users of their consumer instant messaging (IM) services on a global basis.
Posted Oct 21, 2005
Moreover Technologies, a provider of real-time news and business information, was acquired by VeriSign Inc., a provider of intelligent infrastructure services that enable people and businesses to transact across the global network.
Posted Oct 21, 2005
Nstein Technologies Inc., a provider of linguistic-based Business Intelligence solutions, has announced that it has signed a securities purchase agreement, which provides for a private placement of $4.1 million of senior secured convertible notes with certain institutional investors.
Posted Oct 21, 2005
Baker & Taylor, a distributor of books and audio-visual materials and provider of library services, and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, a library cooperative, have announced a partnership that will offer OCLC cataloging records to subscribers who receive books and audio-visual materials from the Baker & Taylor family of companies.
Posted Oct 18, 2005
LexisNexis U.S., a provider of news, business, and legal information services, and the American Arbitration Association (AAA), a provider of conflict management and dispute resolution services, have announced a relationship to deliver a new electronic collection of searchable Labor Arbitration Awards exclusively via the LexisNexis research services.
Posted Oct 18, 2005
Apple has named Tim Cook its COO.
Posted Oct 18, 2005
Backfence Inc. has announced that it has closed on a Series A round of funding and has named a group of media and technology industry executives to its Advisory Board.
Posted Oct 18, 2005
Ozmosys, Inc. has announced that the company's news digest business will become part of a new entity, PinHawk.
Posted Oct 18, 2005
Kazeon, a provider of information classification and management solutions for the enterprise, has announced it has signed an OEM, development, and marketing agreement with Network Appliance, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Kazeon and NetApp will integrate the data classification and search capabilities of Kazeon’s Information Server with Network Appliance storage systems.
Posted Oct 14, 2005
NewsGator Technologies, Inc., an RSS platform company, has announced a partnership with FeedBurner, a feed management provider, to enhance NewsGator’s Private Label offering.
Posted Oct 14, 2005
NTT Cyber Communications Laboratory Group, a research division of Japan’s largest telecommunications operator, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION (NTT), and EXPWAY of France, a provider of XML-based Electronic Content Guides, have teamed up to develop a Metadata System dedicated to mobile and broadband networks, based on the TV-Anytime Forum specifications.
Posted Oct 11, 2005
Elsevier has announced a partnership between Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) to add the collection of theses and dissertations of its member institutes to Scirus.
Posted Oct 11, 2005
VeriSign, Inc., a provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, has announced that it has purchased Weblogs.com and its ping service from Scripting News, Inc.
Posted Oct 11, 2005
America Online, Inc. has announced that is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc. of Santa Monica, CA and New York, NY.
Posted Oct 11, 2005
Harlequin Enterprises Limited, a publisher of series romance and women’s fiction, has announced an agreement with OverDrive, Inc., a national provider of download Audiobooks and eBooks to libraries, that will make many of Harlequin’s collection of novels available as downloadable eBooks through library Web sites.
Posted Oct 07, 2005
Artist House Holdings has announced on September 27 that it will form a business alliance with BBMF Corporation of Nevada in the development and sales of mobile content.
Posted Oct 07, 2005
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that it has acquired InfoPOEM, Inc., a provider of evidence-based medicine (EBM) content and Web-based search tools, based in Charlottesville, VA.
Posted Oct 07, 2005
NewsGator Technologies, Inc., an RSS platform company, has announced that it has acquired NetNewsWire, an RSS reader for Mac OS X. NewsGator also announced that NetNewsWire will integrate tightly with the NewsGator Online synchronization platform.
Posted Oct 07, 2005
Hostway Corp., a provider of Web hosting and managed services, has announced a partnership with Intellext, the “Intelligence in Context” software company, to offer Watson 2.0 to existing customers and site visitors.
Posted Oct 04, 2005
Snapdata International, a provider of market research, has announced that they have opened a new office in New York on 57th Street.
Posted Oct 04, 2005