News Technologies LLC has announced the release of a new desktop alerting system called TriggerNews PL (Private Label) Multi-Brand.
Posted Aug 17, 2004
Thought Equity, a provider of video management and stock footage licensing services, has announced that the company has closed its series B financing of $7.2 million in angel funding.
Posted Aug 17, 2004
Interwoven, Inc., an enterprise content management (ECM) company, has announced the acquisition of the assets of Software Intelligence, Inc., a provider of records management (RM) systems.
Posted Aug 17, 2004
A roundup of how some digital content companies are involved in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
DataPower, a provider of intelligent XML-aware network devices, has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has awarded the company a patent covering its core technology.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
OneFN, an investor network of Empire Media, Inc., has released a new free desktop financial news alert service, the InvestorIntelligenceNetwork.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
Sonic Solutions and Roxio have announced that Sonic will acquire the consumer software division of Roxio for a total purchase price of $80 million.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
Trials of a national identity card system in the United Kingdom are producing some mixed results as well as some protests from privacy advocates, but will likely get more testing as well as continued support from government officials, according to industry analysts.
Posted Aug 12, 2004
DTLink Software has announced the immediate availability of Personal Stock Streamer 6.0, a real time streaming portfolio management solution for the individual stock market investor.
Posted Aug 10, 2004
MarketWatch.com, Inc., a provider of business news, financial information, and analytical tools, has changed its corporate name to MarketWatch, Inc., dropping the dot com.
Posted Aug 10, 2004
NewsGator Technologies has announced an exclusive agreement with Gene Mage, a professional speaker, author, and leadership development specialist, to offer a new column through NewsGator Online Services, a set of services that is designed to allow users to search for and read content on any device.
Posted Aug 06, 2004
NewsKnowledge and The Hive Group have announced News Maps, visual maps of the NewsIsFree headline database.
Posted Aug 06, 2004
TIFNY has released RollingHeads Electronic Newsstand beta 1.0, a Windows application that is intended to make it easier to access and organize news from the Internet.
Posted Aug 06, 2004
Zeppelin Energy Inc., a U.S. company with interests in software and other sectors, has acquired Rocket Technologies Inc., who under their "Rocketinfo" trademark and moniker is a developer of current news search, content, and publishing solutions.
Posted Aug 06, 2004
comScore Networks has released an analysis of Web visitation related to the Democratic National Convention.
Posted Aug 03, 2004
Vivisimo, the clustering engine for Web search, has created a special tool for readers of the 9/11 Commission’s report.
Posted Aug 03, 2004
Daum Communications Corp. of South Korea has purchased Lycos US, in an apparent effort to enter the US search market.
Posted Aug 03, 2004
Sorrent, Inc., a creator and publisher of mobile entertainment, has raised $20 million in Series C financing led by BA Venture Partners.
Posted Aug 03, 2004
Rocket Technologies Inc., a supplier of current news search, content, and publishing solutions has announced the formation of a strategic reseller alliance with The Canadian Press, Canada’s multimedia news agency.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
The board of directors of the Associated Press has announced plans to develop tools designed to enhance the news industry's search capabilities and licensing protection.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
Ofcom, the regulatory agency for the U.K. communications industries, has proposed a universal content tagging system, according to a consultation document on their Web site. Although this is still very much at the preliminary stage, one of the goals of the proposal is to provide a way to label content that might be offensive or inappropriate, ostensibly to protect young people using electronic media.
Posted Jul 26, 2004
The findings of a nationwide survey released by ChoiceStream, a provider of online personalization solutions, indicate that a majority of Internet users, 64%, would provide insight into their preferences in exchange for personalized product and content recommendations; and 56% would provide demographic data (e.g. age and gender).
Posted Jul 20, 2004
Microsoft Corp. has announced the formation of a new group within the company to help focus efforts and further develop relationships with the media and entertainment industries.
Posted Jul 20, 2004
Reed Elsevier Group plc has announced the appointment of Erik Engstrom as CEO of Elsevier, its global scientific and medical publishing division.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
Mobile Streams, a mobile content company, has announced that it has established operations in the Latin American region with the opening of four subsidiary companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.
Posted Jul 16, 2004