Nstein Technologies Inc., a provider of Business Intelligence linguistic solutions, has announced that its common shares qualify for coverage operations under the Quebec government’s SMB Growth Stock Plan.
Posted Jan 13, 2006
Associated Content, Inc., an online publisher of user-driven content, has announced its securing of $5.4 million of Series A equity capital.
Posted Jan 13, 2006
thePlatform, a provider of digital audio and video publishing solutions, has announced it has closed series B financing from Spark Capital, a new venture capital partnership.
Posted Jan 13, 2006
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Shareholder.com, a privately held firm specializing in shareholder communications and investor relations intelligence services.
Posted Jan 13, 2006
Internet video search provider Truveo, Inc. has been acquired by America Online, Inc.
Posted Jan 13, 2006
The question facing digital entertainment companies seems to have changed from Can we implement effective DRM? to Should we even try? The shift seemed inevitable to some as one digital or audio DRM scheme after the next was swiftly circumvented. However, while some software distributors began to view pass-along as an inevitable fact of the digital distribution universe—developing DRM models to enable and monetize file sharing—the entertainment industry has been slow to follow.
Posted Jan 11, 2006
ScholarOne has announced that Taylor & Francis, an international academic publisher, has increased its current contract with ScholarOne to license Manuscript Central for the online peer-review management of 300 journals worldwide.
Posted Jan 10, 2006
BBC Blast, in partnership with the Prince's Trust and Artswork led by the Arts Council of England, has been awarded £1m over three years from the Big Lottery Fund--Young People's Strategic Funds--for a program of creative activities aimed at young people from all communities.
Posted Jan 10, 2006
Wolters Kluwer Tax, Accounting & Legal, a division of Wolters Kluwer, has announced that is has acquired the assets of Best Case Solutions, Inc. and that the company's Best Case Bankruptcy software and services will become part of the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business unit.
Posted Jan 10, 2006
Phonebites, Inc., a global publisher of entertainment software for mobile phones, has announced a partnership with STRAX, a manufacturer and distributor of supply-side solutions for wireless operators and retailers.
Posted Jan 06, 2006
Financial Information, Inc. (FII) and Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of Financial Actions and Transfer Services data to the global securities industry, have announced the addition of Financial International Data Services (FIDS) to FII’s portfolio of securities information services.
Posted Jan 06, 2006
M&A activity surged across the media and information industries in 2005, reaching levels not seen since 2000, according to a new report.
Posted Jan 06, 2006
BitPass, Inc., provider of a commerce platform for digital content and services, has acquired substantially all the assets of Yaga, Inc., a developer of payment and accounting solutions for content providers.
Posted Jan 06, 2006
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, a library cooperative, has purchased the assets of Openly Informatics, a provider of linking software and services for the library market.
Posted Jan 06, 2006
To convey its broadened scope of professional expertise, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association will use only its acronym—ISACA—after 1 January 2006.
Posted Jan 03, 2006
Mamma.com Inc. has announced that the Company's board of directors and the board and shareholders of Copernic Technologies Inc. have approved definitive purchase agreements to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding securities of Copernic.
Posted Jan 03, 2006
Captiva Software Corporation, a provider of input management solutions, has announced that, at a shareholders meeting, Captiva’s shareholders approved the company’s acquisition by EMC Corporation, a provider of information management and storage.
Posted Dec 29, 2005
IBM has announced the acquisition of Bowstreet, Inc., a Massachusetts-based provider of portal-based tools and technology that helps companies bring together corporate applications, documents, databases, and other enterprise information into a single, integrated portal application.
Posted Dec 22, 2005
ISI Emerging Markets, an electronic publisher of emerging markets’ economic, financial, and political news and information, has announced a distribution agreement with FactSet, for the distribution of ISI’s CEIC databases on the FactSet research platform.
Posted Dec 22, 2005
Web search, blog and development companies including PubSub, Bloglines, Feedster, Meetup, Sxip, CommerceNet, Broadband Mechanics and others have announced the start of an initiative to keep structured content standards in sync.
Posted Dec 20, 2005
CSA has announced it has acquired Community of Science (COS), an Internet site for the global R&D community.
Posted Dec 20, 2005
Quark Inc. has announced that it has acquired the business and assets of A Lowly Apprentice Production Inc. (ALAP), a provider of extended technology for the publishing and graphic design industries.
Posted Dec 16, 2005
Electronic Arts Inc. and JAMDAT Mobile Inc. have announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which EA will acquire JAMDAT.
Posted Dec 13, 2005
Yahoo has acquired del.icio.us, a New York-based startup that is a provider of social bookmarking, a type of online service that lets users save, annotate, and tag links to their favorite Web pages and share their lists with other users.
Posted Dec 13, 2005
Nstein Technologies Inc. has announced that the private placement financing project of $5 million is following due course.
Posted Dec 09, 2005