Interactive Data Corporation announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the data and tools assets of Dow Jones & Co. Inc.'s Online Financial Solutions (OFS) business.
Posted Dec 01, 2009
IBM has acquired in real-time enterprise database monitoring and protection company Guardium.
Posted Dec 01, 2009
In advance of its stock hitting the market, AOL offered a preview of the new brand that will carry it forward as an independent company.
Posted Nov 24, 2009
Content optimization developer EveryZing announced that it would be changing its name to RAMP and consolidating its line of core technologies and products into a single platform, also called RAMP.
Posted Nov 20, 2009
Personal archive site Evernote announced that it raised $10 million of capital in a secondary round of funding that included participation from Morgenthaler Ventures.
Posted Nov 20, 2009
Google has announced its acquisition of AdMob, a mobile advertising company based out of San Mateo, CA that specializes in targeted mobile ads and analytics
Posted Nov 13, 2009
Wikimedia Foundation announced a partnership with comScore to provide an expanded awareness of the Foundation's global web audience trends and demographics.
Posted Nov 06, 2009
Document management software developer ColumbiaSoft announced that it would be moving to new, larger headquarters in the city of Portland by the end of the year.
Posted Nov 03, 2009
The Omaha World-Herald Co. has purchased WikiCity, a community-based social website that provides localized information on events, places, and people in 22,000 U.S. towns.
Posted Nov 03, 2009
According to an SEC filing, Godengo has raised $2.16 million in funding.
Posted Nov 03, 2009
UK-based workflow and data-management developer JPY announced the acquisition of JVolution Ltd., an online business consulting group that focuses on CMS and e-business implementations.
Posted Oct 30, 2009
Open Source microblogging developer StatusNet secured $875,000 in a round of financing that included venture capital groups Montreal Start Up and iNovia Capital, as well as angel investor Oleg Tscheltzoff.
Posted Oct 30, 2009
Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the country.
Posted Oct 27, 2009
IngBoo, a free online service where consumers can organize their web activities in one place, has raised $800,000 in seed funding led by Elis Nemes and Saeed Amidi of Amidzad Partners, Doug Tsui of Horizon Ventures, and Allen Miner of Sunbridge Partners.
Posted Oct 27, 2009
TopTenREVIEWS has acquired the Consumer Media Division of Imaginova Inc., a privately held company based in New York City.
Posted Oct 27, 2009
HubSpot announced that it secured $16 million in a round of Series C financing led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Matrix Partners and General Catalyst Partners.
Posted Oct 23, 2009
Social media analysis company Visible Technologies announced that it will partner with In-Q-Tel, a strategic investment firm launched by the CIA that exists to develop technologies in support of the U.S. intelligence community.
Posted Oct 23, 2009
A recent agreement between FIZ Karlsruhe and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) adds new conditions to the partnership, which dates to 1983.
Posted Oct 20, 2009
Sometrics, a company that specializes in making virtual currencies for video game worlds, has closed on a round of Series B funding with Steamboat Ventures.
Posted Oct 20, 2009
Online social media monitoring company Scout Labs, Inc, has closed a funding round that, according to an SEC filing, is worth upwards of $4 million.
Posted Oct 20, 2009
Thomas Reuters confirmed that it has made a formal offer to acquire financial insight commentator Breakingviews.
Posted Oct 16, 2009
The recent valuation of Twitter came in at approximately a billion dollars, according to news reports. It's a big figure based on a lot of other numbers: monthly visitors to the site, the daily number of tweets, repeat usage, and-most critically-the extraordinarily rapid rise of all those statistics in such a short time. The one thing we know for sure is Twitter's profit margin: zero.
Posted Oct 09, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission announced new guidelines covering endorsements and testimonials, addressing for the first time the role of bloggers and online reviewers.
Posted Oct 09, 2009
On-demand software solutions provider KIT digital announced that it reached definitive agreements to acquire two of its competitors, Germany-based Nunet AG and New York-based The FeedRoom.
Posted Oct 09, 2009
The Washington Post and Bloomberg will launch a global news service, The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News, which will feature 120 news stories a day from both sources. The service will be available to subscribers, web services, and other newspapers.
Posted Oct 06, 2009