The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google have announced a settlement agreement on behalf of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search.
Posted Oct 31, 2008
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has purchased NISC, Inc., provider of refined subject area databases.
Posted Oct 31, 2008
LexisNexis, a global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, announced that it has acquired IDEX, Inc., a provider of expert witness content to the legal market.
Posted Oct 31, 2008
NewspaperDirect Inc., provider of multi-channel newspaper and magazine content distribution and monetization, announced that the newspaper publication import distributor in Turkey, Dünya Süper Dagitim A.S., has joined NewspaperDirect's License Partner Network.
Posted Oct 28, 2008
LinkedIn, an online network for professionals, announced they received strategic investments totaling $22.7 million from market leaders in the enterprise software, investment banking, and business information sectors.
Posted Oct 24, 2008
Akamai Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire acerno for approximately $95 million in cash, subject to certain closing adjustments.
Posted Oct 24, 2008
Over 60% of UK businesses would be unable to find a saved document sent by email in the last year, according to a major trends survey conducted by ONStor, a provider of clustered NAS solutions for primary and value-tier storage for enterprises and content-rich organizations.
Posted Oct 21, 2008
Translations.com, a provider of translation services and technology, announced it has completed a merger with Quagnito Solutions of Pune, India.
Posted Oct 17, 2008
The third in a series of ALPSP surveys undertaken to establish current scholarly publishing practices and designed to track changes in policy and practice since 2000, has been published by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing.
Posted Oct 14, 2008
A new report from the National Academy of Sciences, part of which was co-authored by an Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington professor, casts doubt on the effectiveness, lawfulness, and appropriateness of using data-based tools such as data-mining and biometrics to fight terrorism.
Posted Oct 14, 2008
A group of research libraries are collaborating to create a repository of their digital collections, including millions of books.
Posted Oct 14, 2008
CollegeWikis, a student-run web messaging and information platform, raised $2 million in series A funding.
Posted Oct 14, 2008
Publishing Technology, a provider of software and services for the publishing industry, has restructured its operations to create a single company.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
Indiana University announced the creation of the Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR), a collaboration among industry, government agencies, and academic institutions, to target research to identity management challenges.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
PolySpot, a provider of enterprise search solutions, has teamed up with several new channel partners in the UK.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
Giga Omni, the parent of GigaOm and NewTeeVee B2B blog network, has raised $4.5 million in funding.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
Springer Science+Business Media, supplier of scientific and specialist literature, has reached an agreement to acquire BioMed Central Group, an open access publisher. Springer Science+Business Media also announced it is launching MyCopy, a pilot project to expand its services to eBook users.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
News Corporation and VeriSign, Inc. announced the sale of VeriSign's minority share of the mobile entertainment joint venture to News Corporation for approximately $200 million.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
SDL Tridion, a global provider of Web Content Management (WCM) software solutions and a division of SDL, announced the appointment of Jan Jaap Kolleman as new CEO of SDL Tridion.
Posted Oct 07, 2008
Avaak, provder of wire-free personal video networking technology, announced that it raised $7 million in Series A funding.
Posted Oct 07, 2008
Abacast, Inc., a provider of real-time streaming solutions, announced the purchase of Tukati, Inc., a producer of peer-assisted on-demand delivery solutions.
Posted Sep 30, 2008
A survey conducted by Science+Business Media, a science, technology, and medical book publisher, in conjunction with five leading academic institutions, highlights prominent research and academic usage of eBooks.
Posted Sep 26, 2008
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, announced the World Wide Web Foundation to fulfill a vision of the web as humanity connected by technology.
Posted Sep 26, 2008
eZ Systems and eZ Partner, Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd., will join forces to found eZ Systems Japan this November in Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo.
Posted Sep 26, 2008
Yahoo! announced the launch of APT, formerly known as AMP!
Posted Sep 26, 2008