Moreover Technologies
{{Short description|Business intelligence company}}
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| type = Private
| foundation = 1998
| location = 1902 Campus Commons Dr, Suite 400, Reston, Virginia, 20191-1563, United States
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| industry = Media monitoring
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| parent = LexisNexis
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| homepage = [http://www.moreover.com/ www.moreover.com]
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Moreover Technologies (generally known as "Moreover") is a provider of business intelligence, media monitoring and news aggregation products for enterprises, also offering free news feeds for consumers. Moreover was founded in 1998 by Nick Denton, David Galbraith, and Angus Bankes.{{Cite news |last=Rayner |first=Jay |date=2008-03-09 |title=The Brit dishing the dirt on America |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/mar/09/gawker |access-date=2024-02-28 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712 |quote="He turned to his old school friend Dave Galbraith who, though now trained as an architect, had been writing software for years. Together with another mutual school friend, Angus Bankes, they would come up with the software to support Moreover.com."}}
PR Newswire, 21 September 2004. In October 2014, Moreover was acquired by LexisNexis.{{cite web |date=2014-10-20 |title=Moreover Joins LexisNexis |url=http://moreover.com/blog/2014/10/20/moreover-joins-lexisnexis/ |website=www.moreover.com}}
History
Moreover became involved with developing the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 1.0 standard in 2000RSS-DEV Working Group, 9 December 2000. [http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec "RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112212715/http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec |date=2013-01-12 }} and was later acquired by VeriSign in 2005 for $30m.{{Cite web |last=Leyden |first=John |date=2005-10-18 |title=VeriSign aggregates Moreover |url=https://www.theregister.com/2005/10/18/verisign_buys_moreover/ |access-date= |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}} As part of VeriSign the Moreover business unit was renamed as Real-Time Publisher Services being paired with Weblogs.com to create a platform for publishers and bloggers to track and distribute content. In May 2009, Moreover was sold to a private investor group led by Paul Farrell.Moreover Company Blog, 13 May 2009. [http://blog.moreover.com/2009/05/13/moreover-3-0-we-divest-out-of-verisign/ "Moreover 3.0: We divest out of VeriSign"] The sale included Weblogs.com with the ping server becoming wholly owned and run by Moreover.
Current history
Moreover currently powers the Ask.com News Search{{Cite web |date=2002-07-22 |title=Moreover Technologies Provides Real-Time News and Information to Ask Jeeves |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/news-releases-list |url-status=dead |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=PR Newswire |language=en |archive-date=2021-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214024629/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/news-releases-list/ }} and BBC Newstracker,BBC News. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3676692.stm "BBC links to other news sites"] having global headquarters in Reston, Virginia and further offices in Dayton, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and London; furthermore, in October 2014, Moreover was acquired by LexisNexis. LexisNexis has since integrated Moreover's flagship product, Newsdesk, into their portfolio of media intelligence solutions.
See also
References
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110407215947/http://www.moreover.com/ Moreover Technologies]
- [http://blog.moreover.com Moreover Technologies Company blog]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090806050905/http://widgetwizard.feeddirect.com/dr/feeddirect/api/html/home.html FeedDirect]
- [https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/newsdesk.page LexisNexis Website]
Category:Business intelligence companies
Category:Internet properties established in 1998