I guess VRSN is no longer primarily a "security" company then? -rick
http://www.verisign.com/press_releases/pr/page_036022.html VeriSign Acquires Moreover Technologies Real-time Aggregation Platform to Complement Blog and RSS Feed Infrastructure MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, October 17, 2005 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced the acquisition of Moreover Technologies, a wholesale aggregator of real-time content for Web sites, search engines and enterprise customers. By combining Moreover¹s content aggregation services with VeriSign¹s global feed management infrastructure, VeriSign will offer bloggers, publishers, enterprises and Web portals a more intelligent and scalable, real-time content platform. The new content aggregation services will utilize VeriSign¹s ping server infrastructure to increase the reliability and intelligence of its content distribution network. Currently, Moreover aggregates more than 12,000 news sources and millions of blogs. Harvesting information from across 126 countries in 25 languages, Moreover uses an advanced content tagging system with more than 30 metadata tags and 380 categories to deliver hundreds of thousands of unduplicated real-time content articles every day. Customers such as MSN, AskJeeves, and BBC use Moreover¹s technology to provide their customers with real-time news and content while hundreds of other enterprises, use the technology to garner real-time information about market and business trends. ³By combining the intelligent content of Moreover¹s aggregation services with RSS feeds and the reliability of our ping server infrastructure, VeriSign will provide our customers with a highly relevant source of real-time information,² said Mark McLaughlin, senior vice president and general manager of VeriSign¹s Naming and Directory Services. ³The new services will make it easier for publishers and bloggers to distribute and track their content, as well as for our enterprise and Web portal customers to improve the reliability and quality of their feeds as the demand for RSS and Blog information continues to grow.² ³Moreover customers are delighted with our ability to rapidly harvest, tag and distribute customized real-time content within minutes,² said James Pitkow, President and CEO of Moreover Technologies. ³Our customers not only seek the fastest and most current aggregated content, but they also demand reliable and highly structured data feeds. VeriSign¹s intelligent infrastructure will allow us to provide our customers with even greater stability to deliver real-time content so our customers can continue to count on this information as a reliable part of their business communications and applications.² The price of the acquisition was approximately $30 million in cash and it is being accounted for as a purchase transaction. Moreover Technologies has 35 employees with offices in San Francisco and London. You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
