Mediasurface to buy CMS vendor Immediacy
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Mediasurface, a maker of content management software (CMS), will buy Immediacy, also a content management vendor, for Â£5.6 million ($11.1 million) the companies announced on Tuesday.
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FSBO Media Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FSMH) has completed the acquisition of Relax Relax, Inc., d/b/a FLV Hosting. FLV Hosting creates cutting-edge solutions for delivery of video over the Internet using Flash technology.
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Sybase is adding to its mobile portfolio, grabbing messaging service provider Mobile 365 for about $425 million in cash.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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MacCentral - Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire online music service Musicmatch Inc. in a cash deal valued at US&#36;160 million. It's Yahoo's maneuver to become a player in the online digital music download world, currently dominated by Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store, and populated by a variety of other competitors including Napster, Microsoft's MSN Music, Wal-Mart and others.
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TransMedia has unveiled the latest version of its Colaborata online media platform and said that ASCAP and SLG Advertising were among the first customers to license the product. Other major entertainment-related customers will be announced soon.
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ITMedia Consulting ha steso bilancio del mercato
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InfoWorld - Storage company EMC has agreed to buy Document Sciences, a developer of software for personalizing mailshots and other communications. The acquisition will allow EMC to extend its offering in the field of transactional content management, which it sees as the fastest-growing part of the enterprise content management market. It plans to incorporate Document Sciences into its content management and archiving division.
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NetManage (Quote, Chart) agreed to acquire privately held Librados for an undisclosed sum. The deal would give NetManage application adapters to help its Host Services Platform server applications via service
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Blog: Entertainment company says vendor breached terms of license agreement.
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Corel on Monday announced an agreement to acquire multimedia software publisher InterVideo, most known for its WinDVD lineup, in an all-cash deal valued at $196 million. The move expands Corel's portfolio into video editing and DVD creation.
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(InfoWorld) - Online delivery service company Akamai Technologies Inc. is buying Nine Systems Corp., a multimedia management service provider, expanding its toolset for online content. To buy Nine Systems, Akamai will issue 3.1 million shares and pay about US$7 million in cash. The buyout will cost an estimated $160 million, depending in part on Akamai's share price on the closing date, which is expected to come by year's end, said Akamai spokesman Jeff Young. Akamai helps enterprises and service providers get content and applications out to customers through its software and servers located in ISP (Internet service provider) data centers worldwide. Nine Systems sells a service for setting up live and canned content, controlling how customers can use it and analyzing how it is consumed. Being able to deliver rich media well is a growing business as more video and audio offerings go up on the Internet and Web users learn to expect instant gratification through sites such as YouTube. The problem has also become more complicated with multimedia appearing on mobile devices such as cell phones. Nine Systems has a set of services controlled through a software suite called Stream OS. With it, providers can take a piece of content, set up how it will be delivered, protect it with Microsoft Corp. Windows Media DRM (digital rights management), create a page where it can be sold and control how users can access it. Reporting tools include a worldwide map of where the content is being consumed and a voice-activated system for retrieving statistics from a cell phone on the road. Other Nine Systems capabilities include setting up channels of related content and tagging media so the right advertising can be associated with it, Young said. Akamai will integrate the services with its delivery capabilities to create a one-stop shop for online media providers, he said. Akamai, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will retain Nine Systems' facilities in Denver and its hometown of San Diego and will keep a majority of the company's 57 employees, Young said.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Yahoo has agreed to buy Zimbra, a privately held company whose Web-hosted collaboration and messaging suite is considered a successful example of the SaaS (software as a service) model.
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Storage company EMC has agreed to buy Document Sciences, a developer of software for personalizing mailshots and other communications. The acquisition will allow EMC to extend its offering in the field of transactional content management, which it sees as the fastest-growing part of the enterprise content management market. It plans to incorporate Document Sciences into its content management and archiving division.Using xPression, Document Sciences&#39; flagship application, companies can automate the creation and delivery of personalized communications such as brochures and contracts. The data can be drawn from CRM (customer relationship management), ECM (enterprise content management) and ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, it said.Automating the processes can save companies money or speed deals along, Document Sciences said. It has more than 500 customers using its software, it said.Document Sciences and EMC have been partners since 2004, when Document Sciences signed an agreement to integrate its xPression software with EMC&#39;s Documentum platform.Acquiring Document Sciences will allow EMC to further its goal of delivering systems for handling business problems end to end, it said.The xPression software could be useful for companies building transaction-intensive consumer financial applications such as new account enrollment, wealth management, brokerage and claims processing.The acquisition, for $85 million in cash, already has the approval of the companies&#39; boards of directors. Subject to customary closing conditions, including the approval of regulators and Document Sciences&#39; shareholders, the companies expect to close the deal by the end of March.EMC went on a buying spree in 2003, buying Legato and&#160;Documentum&#160;and has added around 20 companies since then, including security and encryption company&#160;RSA Security, virtualization specialist&#160;Rainfinity, and other companies such as Acartus,&#160;Captiva,&#160;and&#160;Internosis.
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mediaFORGE, a leading provider  of media-rich, viral, web-based sales and marketing tools, announced  today a partnership with VÃ©ritÃ©,  Inc., a top Utah digital communications agency, a move which allows VÃ©ritÃ©  to become a strategic reseller of mediaFORGE's  innovative Wrap&#8482; technology.
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Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB: MDVX), Internet broadcasting pioneer and holder of  several patented internet broadcasting technologies announced today that  it has completed integration of the Voice123 voice talent acquisition  and management utility to its Internet Radio and Interactive Product  lines.
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Ponders options as ContentGuard gains third owner
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(InfoWorld) - PM (performance management) vendors appear to be universal in their delight at the news that Oracle will buy Hyperion for $3.3 billion. Their pleasure comes mainly from believing that enterprise-level companies do not want to buy a PM solution from an application or database vendor, preferring instead to purchase mission-critical applications like PM from an independent company with domain expertise and a unique understanding of the space. "A Goldman Sachs survey said that over 65 percent of CIOs prefer to purchase their BI and PM applications from an independent vendor," said Michelle Mollot, vice president of market strategy at Cognos. First and foremost, Oracle will have to convince customers that the Hyperion application will not be optimized for the Oracle database environment and rather that it will be optimized for applications that are important to their company, especially because most large companies have a heterogeneous database and application environment that requires a high level of open and ERP-independent software. The last thing a customer wants is performance management to be an accessory to a database or an application, adds Piet Loubser, senior vice president and director of market intelligence at Business Objects. There appears to be universal agreement from Hyperion competitors that performance management must live transversely across all systems in a heterogeneous environment. "You cant afford to have any bias to other applications that might exist in an infrastructure," said Loubser. Trevor Walker, vice president of marketing at Cartesis, a financial consolidation vendor, said that in the foreseeable future, there will be a lack of clarity on applications from Oracle and where they sit on the application roadmap. "It opens up a lot of opportunities," he said. Craig Schiff, president of BPM partners, a vendor-neutral consulting firm that helps companies launch BPM initiatives, says the acquisition will be a significant challenge for Oracle. "No transactional vendor has been able to sell PM applications. Nobody buys SAPs PM apps," Schiff said. Â The only value Oracle may offer to its customers is integration with its underlying data structure. But Schiff says Hyperion itself is still struggling with integration issues between its own applications, such as financial management, planning, and BI tools. Schiff may know a thing or two about Hyperion as he was the second hire at the company back in the 1980s. While Oracle is spending R&D dollars on integration with ERP, most large companies see the major benefit from single-solution providers in the fact that all of their research and development dollars are focused on PM. "Because PM is a strategic front-office solution with high visibility, it is not an area you compromise on," said Schiff. Not all analysts agree, however. Despite the delight expressed by vendors spoken to for this report, Josh Greenberg, principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting has a different point of view: "Competitors should be worried." According to Greenberg, Hyperion lets Oracle have a conversation with the financial management of a company, the C-level executives. Hyperion plus a big ERP suite can be potentially a lucrative and competitive combination if it can make sense in the context of what Oracle already has. "The trick is integration and assimilation," said Greenberg. Schiff also sees another side to the acquisition, saying it could be a preemptive move before Microsoft unveils Performance Point Server, its PM solution. Schiff says that Microsoft is going to be a big player in the performance space and that IBM may enter the fray as well, picking up Cognos next It is the conclusion of all analysts and vendors in this space that performance management as a separate niche has become extremely mission-critical ever since Sarbanes-Oxley. Up until Sarbanes, the systems for financial management were not effective, and the budget process was too loose, many say.Â  PM is the discipline companies need to apply to reign in risk, notes Cognos' Mollot. It has by default become the new battleground for the hearts and minds of enterprise customers, and that may explain why Oracle made its move. "Application vendors have been able to automate the transaction system phase and now PM becomes the next competitive advantage," said Mollot.