Industrious Kid, creator of ‘tween social-networking site Imbee.com, has attracted an investment from Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Walt Disney Company.
Posted Mar 27, 2007
Amp’d Mobile, a mobile entertainment company, has raised $107 million in funding.
Posted Mar 27, 2007
SirsiDynix, a provider of strategic technology solutions for libraries, has announced it is creating SirsiDynix International and placing oversight of its operations outside North America under the new division.
Posted Mar 23, 2007
D&B has acquired First Research for $22.5 million, with an earn-out potential of up to $4 million based on financial performance.
Posted Mar 23, 2007
Securent Inc., a provider of the Application Entitlement Management market, has announced that it is a Sponsor Member of the Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
Posted Mar 20, 2007
Elsevier, a global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information, has announced the acquisition through its subsidiary MDL Information Systems GmbH, of the Beilstein Database, a compilation of chemical facts and a database in the field of organic chemistry.
Posted Mar 20, 2007
Avidence Inc. has secured $5.0 million in first round financing from Red Rock Ventures and ArrowPath Venture Partners.
Posted Mar 20, 2007
Eurekster, Inc., a provider of social search has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing.
Posted Mar 16, 2007
OCLC Online Computer Library Center has acquired TechAtlas technology planning software with a $1.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Posted Mar 16, 2007
Viacom Inc. has sued YouTube and Google in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacom’s entertainment properties.
Posted Mar 16, 2007
Inmedius, Inc., a provider of lifecycle management solutions for technical information assets, has announced the acquisition of IConvert software from JNR Associates.
Posted Mar 13, 2007
Accenture has acquired Digiplug S.A.S., a Paris-based provider of outsourced mobile-content repurposing and distribution services to the music and communications industries, from Faith Inc. of Kyoto, Japan.
Posted Mar 13, 2007
Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Company has announced the formation of Vuguru, an independent studio that will produce and distribute original content for the Internet and emerging digital platforms.
Posted Mar 13, 2007
MXP4 Interactive Music has secured a $6.5 million investment from Sofinnova Partners and Ventech, which will enable MXP4 Interactive music to develop its digital audio technology and underwrite its commercial development.
Posted Mar 13, 2007
Open Text Corporation has released a survey that shows that the demands of managing websites is overloading university IT departments.
Posted Mar 09, 2007
Viva! Vision, a provider of branded, user-generated and original mobile video programming, has announced that it has secured $5 Million of funding from its leading investors, Equal Elements.
Posted Mar 09, 2007
Cisco Systems has completed the purchase of select assets of privately-held Utah Street Networks, Inc., the operator of the social networking site Tribe.net.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
Silvio Scaglia, FastWeb founder, chairman and largest shareholder, has turned his attention to a new venture, an internet television and video-on-demand service called Babelgum.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
The BBC has announced a deal with Google to make clips of its news and other programs available on YouTube.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), a venture fund affiliated with O’Reilly Media, said it has officially finished raising its first $51 million fund for early stage investing.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
Open Text Corporation, an independent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, has acquired Momentum Systems Inc., a privately held company that specializes in providing ECM solutions to U.S. government agencies.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
Berkeley, CA-based Fliqz, a video sharing website, has raised $2.5 million in Series B funding from Mohr, Davidow Ventures.
Posted Mar 02, 2007
Wizzard Software has signed the final merger agreement for the acquisition of podcasting company Webmayhem Inc., dba Liberated Syndication, which will create a podcasting distribution network.
Posted Mar 02, 2007
New DNA microarrays that can profile more than 500,000 exact genetic variations are giving researchers a better view of the genetic causes of many illnesses and helping them work towards more personalized treatments. While experts are nothing but pleased by the new crop of gene chips, they say that five to ten years from now researchers may shift away from current profiling methods toward new sequencing technologies that are currently in their infancy.
Posted Mar 01, 2007
Fox Interactive Media (FIM), a division of News Corp, has completed the acquisition of interactive advertising technology company, Strategic Data Corporation (SDC).
Posted Feb 27, 2007