NowPublic, the participatory news network, announced the launch of the MostPublic Index, a detailed barometer of the most public news influencers of today's digital world.
Posted Jul 22, 2008
Macehiter Ward-Dutton (MWD), an IT advisory firm, announced the availability of the second of its range of subscription-based advisory services.
Posted Jul 22, 2008
Twitter, the social networking and micro-blogging service, has acquired Summize, a search tool.
Posted Jul 18, 2008
Quark Inc., provider of desktop publishing software, announced that it has acquired the assets of In.vision Research Corporation, a software company that developed the add-in to Microsoft Word for XML authoring.
Posted Jul 18, 2008
Open Text Corporation, provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, announced the acquisition of eMotion LLC from Corbis Corporation.
Posted Jul 15, 2008
Business Valuation Resources, LLC, announced it has acquired Mealey's Conferences from LexisNexis.
Posted Jul 15, 2008
Guardian News & Media announced the acquisition of ContentNext Media, a B2B media company that covers digital media, the entertainment and technology sectors, and publishes paidContent.org.
Posted Jul 15, 2008
Spire.com, a social resource for affluent people, announced it has closed a $9 million Series A round of financing.
Posted Jul 11, 2008
FTI Consulting, Inc., the global business advisory firm, has announced that it completed its acquisition of Attenex Corporation, an eDiscovery software provider, for $88 million in cash.
Posted Jul 08, 2008
Greenfield Online, Inc., a global interactive media and services company, announced that it has entered into a merger agreement to be acquired by an entity affiliated with Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm focused on the media and communications industries.
Posted Jul 08, 2008
ProQuest has closed on its agreement to acquire the Dialog business from ThomsonReuters.
Posted Jul 08, 2008
Microsoft reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company.
Posted Jul 08, 2008
Cisco announced an anchor investment in a venture capital fund that will focus on Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Posted Jul 08, 2008
Agito Networks, Inc., provider of enterprise mobility, announced that it has closed its Series B round of financing, raising approximately $13 million.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
Microsoft is rumored to have agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine, Powerset.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
With its unique publishing and editorial structure, and limitless topical scope, Wikipedia traffics a huge amount of information. Out of more than 2.3 million entries in English, the mere presence of some entries is enough to offend certain groups.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
Yahoo! Inc., the global Internet company, sent a letter to all the stockholders from Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang.
Posted Jun 27, 2008
Getty Images, Inc., creator and distributor of multimedia products, announced that its stockholders voted to adopt the merger agreement providing for the acquisition of Getty Images by affiliates of the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC.
Posted Jun 24, 2008
Seesmic, the online video conversation platform, announced it has received $6 million in series B financing co-led by Omidyar Network, the investment firm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and venture capital firm, Wellington Partners.
Posted Jun 24, 2008
Parascale, provider of cloud storage solutions for rich media content, announced that it has closed a $11.37 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Charles River Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Posted Jun 24, 2008
Answers Corporation, creators of Answers.com and WikiAnswers.com, announced it has entered into definitive agreements for the private placement of up to $13 million of convertible preferred stock and warrants to Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm.
Posted Jun 20, 2008
The online network LinkedIn has received $53 million in a new venture capital funding round, primarily from Bain Capital Ventures, the Boston-based PE firm.
Posted Jun 20, 2008
Technorati, a search engine for blogs, has raised $7.5 million of a planned $10 million fourth round of venture capital financing.
Posted Jun 17, 2008
ProQuest, the Cambridge Information Group company, has signed an agreement under which ProQuest will acquire Thomson Reuters' Dialog business.
Posted Jun 17, 2008
2collab, the research collaboration platform from Elsevier, publisher of science, technology and medical (STM) information, announced the results of a survey, asking researchers working in academia and government institutions about the role of social media in their professional lives.
Posted Jun 13, 2008