VeriSign has announced the acquisition of Moreover Technologies to offer “bloggers, publishers, enterprises and Web portals a more intelligent and scalable, real-time content platform”.


VeriSign has announced the acquisition of Moreover Technologies, for $30 million, to offer “bloggers, publishers, enterprises and Web portals a more intelligent and scalable, real-time content platform”.

VeriSign is the provider of infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks. Moreover Technologies is a wholesale aggregator of real-time content for Web sites, search engines and enterprise customers.

By combining Moreover’s content and VeriSign’s infrastructure, VeriSign will offer bloggers and publishers a content platform.

Moreover aggregates more than 12,000 news sources and millions of blogs. It gathers information from across 126 countries in 25 languages.

Mark McLaughlin, senior vice president and general manager of VeriSign’s Naming and Directory Services, said, “The 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”. [source]

James Pitkow, President and CEO of Moreover Technologies, said, “VeriSign’s 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”. [source]

MSN, AskJeeves, and BBC use Moreover’s technology to provide their customers with real-time news and content.

 

 

 

 

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