Merrill Brown, head of RealNetworks' consumer content division, will leave the company in August.
Posted Aug 05, 2003
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced the appointment of publishing executive Susan J. A. Harris to lead its journal program as Senior Director, Journals.
Posted Aug 05, 2003
comScore Networks has signed a long-term client contract for the use of comScore services that provides for payment by the client of more than $18 million over five years.
Posted Aug 05, 2003
As of July 1, AOL has discontinued its InfoGate services including paid subscription newsfeeds from CNN and USA Today.
Posted Aug 01, 2003
BitPass Inc. has secured $1.5 million in Series A funding. Lead investors in the round are Garage Technology Ventures and Cardinal Venture Capital.
Posted Aug 01, 2003
Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced that the conference program and registration are now available online for the upcoming Streaming Media CA 2003 conference (www.streamingmedia.com/ca).
Posted Aug 01, 2003
Centra Software, Inc., a provider of application software and services for real-time enterprise collaboration (RTEC), has announced that Paul R. Gudonis is joining the company as president and chief executive officer and will be appointed to the board of directors.
Posted Aug 01, 2003
InQuira, Inc., a provider of Web self-service and enterprise search software, has closed a round of funding for $9.25 million.
Posted Jul 29, 2003
According to a report by Aberdeen Group, a market analysis and positioning services firm, the Enterprise Information Integration (EEI) market is on the brink of strong growth and implementation by a variety of Fortune 1000 companies, as major suppliers such as IBM enter the market.
Posted Jul 25, 2003
MarketWatch.com, Inc. and Pinnacor Inc., formerly known as ScreamingMedia, have signed a definitive agreement whereby MarketWatch.com will acquire Pinnacor.
Posted Jul 25, 2003
Almost two-thirds of enterprises are looking for increased integration among their currently separate e-channel applications, according to Aberdeen Group's just-published E-channel Awareness Report.
Posted Jul 22, 2003
Legato Systems, Inc., has been served with two lawsuits filed against the company and its board of directors in connection with the recently-announced agreement that EMC Corporation would acquire Legato.
Posted Jul 22, 2003
CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network), a provider of investor and corporate communications, has acquired Fair Disclosure Financial Network's corporate earnings call transcript and webcast distribution business.
Posted Jul 22, 2003
Business Objects and Crystal Decisions, Inc. have announced a definitive agreement under which Business Objects will acquire privately-held Crystal Decisions, a vendor in the business intelligence (BI) market, and a provider of enterprise reporting software.
Posted Jul 22, 2003
activePDF Inc, a provider of PDF creation, conversion, and development tools for Windows, has announced a partnership with Percussion Software, an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) vendor.
Posted Jul 22, 2003
The Online Publishers Association Europe (OPA Europe) has launched its Web site www.opa-europe.org.
Posted Jul 18, 2003
Northern Light, a search engine company in Cambridge, has announced the addition of Robert Nelson, Patrick O'Malley, and Igor Razboff to its executive management team.
Posted Jul 15, 2003
Gauss and MDY Advanced Technologies, Inc. have announced the first phase of a partnership to integrate VIP Enterprise, Gauss' Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software suite, with FileSurf, MDY's Electronic and Physical Records Management Software (RMS) certified under Version II of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 Standard.
Posted Jul 15, 2003
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Information Today, Inc. have come to terms on an agreement whereby EBSCO has acquired two databases, Information Science & Technology Abstracts and Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts.
Posted Jul 15, 2003
Elsevier Inc., The MIT Press, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., publishers of scientific, technical, and medical materials, have settled their pending copyright infringement lawsuit against Custom Copies, Inc., and its president, Kenneth F. Roberts, both of Gainesville, Florida.
Posted Jul 15, 2003
LexisNexis U.S., a provider of legal, news and business information services, has entered into an agreement to acquire Applied Discovery, a Seattle-based provider of Web-based electronic discovery services to U.S. law firms, large corporations, and government agencies. LexisNexis U.S. has also announced the launch of LexisNexis Total Search.
Posted Jul 15, 2003
Jupitermedia Corporation has acquired the assets of DevX.com from DevX.com, Incorporated for $2,250,000 in cash, 200,000 restricted shares of Jupitermedia common stock, and the assumption of certain liabilities.
Posted Jul 15, 2003
Yahoo! Inc. and Overture Services, Inc. a provider of commercial search services on the Internet, have signed a definitive agreement under which Yahoo! will acquire Overture.
Posted Jul 15, 2003
Five publishers have filed a copyright infringement suit against Collegiate Copies, Inc. and its owners, John E. Seeber and Thomas Seeber. HarperCollins Publishers, Pearson Education, Princeton University Press, SAGE Publications, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. allege that Collegiate Copies has engaged in routine and systematic reproduction of materials from the plaintiffs' publications without seeking permission to reproduce the content either directly or through Copyright Clearance Center.
Posted Jul 11, 2003
Moreover Technologies, a provider of real-time information management solutions, has announced that Yahoo! Search has integrated Moreover's public metabase into its Yahoo! News Search product, providing users with news content to complement and enhance their existing news search results.
Posted Jul 11, 2003