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Information Today March 2002 Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light The company adds key search technology and content to its extended enterprise solutions... |
Information Today June 2, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Seuss Hopes Northern Light will Rise and Shine Just 16 months after selling Northern Light Technologies (NL) to Divine, Inc. (in a stock deal said to be worth between $12 and $16 million), NL's former CEO, David Seuss, purchased the company back for just $81,000 at Divine's 26-hour marathon bankruptcy auction. |
Information Today July 29, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
divine Launches Integrated Search and Classification Solution divine, Inc., a company that offers information solutions for the "extended enterprise," has announced a new integrated search and classification solution that promises better search results for users and fast implementation for the enterprise. |
Information Today December 20, 2002 Quint & Hane |
divine Library Services Financial Collapse Traps Library Subscription Budgets One of the nation's largest subscription agents, divine Library Services, has apparently suffered financial failure. The Massachusetts-based subsidiary of divine, Inc. is also referred to by many as RoweCom or Faxon, its former names. |
Information Today February 27, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
divine Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Chicago-based divine, inc. has crumpled, following its two-year run as a tech start-up, aggressively acquiring companies. So, what does this mean for the proposed EBSCO acquisition of divine's RoweCom being negotiated through the bankruptcy court? |
Information Today January 14, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light to Focus on Enterprise Customers, Will Discontinue Free Public Web Search Northern Light Technology announced that it has decided to focus more exclusively on the needs of enterprise customers and, as of January 16, it will no longer be providing free Web search capabilities to the general public... |
Information Today February 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Divine Debacle Rocks Industry RoweCom, a library subscription agency and subsidiary of divine, Inc., has suffered financial collapse. The orders for subscriptions and payments that libraries placed with RoweCom throughout the fall were not passed along to the publishers, leaving both libraries and publishers in limbo. |
Information Today August 26, 2002 Barbara Quint |
divine Launches Virtual Reference Desk Software A new player has entered the burgeoning field of virtual reference support. divine, Inc., a relative newcomer to the information industry, has announced that it will start marketing Virtual Reference Desk software built around NetAgent, its customer interaction management software. |
Information Today December 8, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Is Sailing Back into Business Research Northern Light, the company named for the innovative 19th century clipper ship, has announced it is bringing back its business Web search engine and the premium document library on Jan. 15, 2004, for enterprise customers. |
Information Today January 13, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update RoweCom and divine Negotiate with Creditors and Potential Buyers |
Information Today February 3, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
RoweCom Files for Bankruptcy, Then Sues divine for Fraud In a bizarre twist to the continuing saga of the disappearing subscription money, RoweCom, the beleaguered subsidiary of divine, inc., filed for bankruptcy on Monday Jan. 27, then sued its parent company for allegedly looting the company. |
Information Today December 18, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Officially Launches SinglePoint The SinglePoint enterprise information portal will also search a company's internal documents and other information resources along with all the Web and Special Collection documents provided by Northern Light... |
Information Today March 10, 2003 Barbara Quint |
EBSCO's Takeover of RoweCom Continues Though its bankrupt parent divine reportedly now faces the possibility of criminal charges stemming from a federal grand jury investigation, RoweCom continues to move toward an acquisition by EBSCO. |
Information Today August 2003 |
News Break: What's New in Enterprise Search, Insider Trading, and More FAST Buys AltaVista Enterprise Search... AskJeeves Sells Enterprise Search... Future Developments in Search... Faster Access to Insider Trading Filings... New KM Solutions... Library Alliance Fights BertelsmannSpringer Sale... etc. |
Information Today March 8, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Pursues Invisible Web Content for Its Search Engine Having launched a major challenge to Google's dominance of the Web search engine field Yahoo! has now added a Content Acquisition Program that offers enhanced coverage to both commercial and noncommercial data sources. |
Information Today June 27, 2005 Barbara Quint |
'Fee' Web Content Accessed by Yahoo! Search Subscriptions The service, currently in beta, allows users to search fee-based content from sites such as ConsumerReports.org, Forrester Research, and the Wall Street Journal Online. |
Searcher September 2003 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Protecting Yourself Against "Rogue" Vendors: Beyond "Divine" Guidance Here's a scary thought. Is divine's RoweCom/Faxon the only loose link in the vendor chain? Does dealing with any other companies put your operation at a similar risk? |
Information Today July 18, 2013 |
Northern Light Debuts Primary Research Manager Software Application Northern Light, a provider of strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology, just released Primary Research Manager, a new software application. |
Information Today May 2003 Paula J. Hane |
News on Web Resources, divine/RoweCom, More The war in Iraq and the health crisis spawned by the SARS virus dominated the news over the last month or so. Information industry news seemed a bit subdued in comparison, yet there were still a number of important developments. |
Information Today January 27, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Steps into the RoweCom Deal After Swets Blackwell Backs Out Creditors of divine's RoweCom business have been on pins and needles for weeks waiting for a resolution to the subscription fund fiasco. |
Information Today June 27, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Varying Content Commitments from Vendors for Yahoo! Search Most content providers allow the search service only limited access to their libraries for resale. But they all hope the service will bring increased user access and sales. |
Information Today April 9, 2001 Paula J. Hane |
Sopheon's Expert Network Now Available Through Northern Light Sopheon and Northern Light Technology, Inc. have announced a strategic alliance that provides access to Sopheon's Intota scientific and technical expert network through Northern Light's search engine... |
Information Today October 17, 2013 Deborah Poulson |
Northern Light to the Rescue Corporate customers who are questioning whether they can afford Factiva may have an answer in Northern Light Business News. |
Information Today March 2003 Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreaks Update New developments in content licensing, open-access publishing, and more |
Information Today July 21, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
Information Today February 10, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Signs Definitive Agreements for RoweCom's European Business EBSCO Industries, Inc. has now signed definitive agreements to acquire the European operations (France, Spain, and the U.K.) of RoweCom/divine Information Services. |
Information Today March 27, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Readies New Free Business Search Engine In addition to searching the best of the web's business news sources and blogs for free, the new Northern Light Search now provides text analytics and "meaning extraction" capabilities from Northern Light's MI Analyst application. |
InternetNews April 30, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Yahoo Takes Control of Right Media Yahoo announced its intention to acquire the remaining 80 percent of Right Media it didn't already own for approximately $680 million in cash and stock. |
Information Today February 28, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Adds Market Intelligence Centers The centers provide the most important news, analysis and commentary, company information, and resource links for an industry or issue on one site. |
Information Today June 2003 |
News Break: The Latest on Google, Market Research, and More Like it or not, news about Google is dominating both the technology and mainstream media... Because of the privacy issues it raises, the USA PATRIOT Act continues to rile librarians and civil libertarians... etc. |
Search Engine Watch June 22, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo to the Max Extreme searcher Ran Hock has published a new book, this time taking an in-depth look at the wide range of tools and services offered by Yahoo. |
InternetNews August 17, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Yahoo Shoots Down VoIP Speculation The Internet giant refutes a report that it is planning to roll out a Skype-like service within two weeks. |
InternetNews October 17, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo Builds Ad Buzz Before Financial Results Yahoo bought AdInterax and took a 20 percent stake in Right Media, creator of the Right Media exchange. |
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Tim Gray |
Yahoo Gets Into The Groove Yahoo hopes to add to its greatest hits by offering Yahoo Music Unlimited, an online music subscription service at a bargain price. |
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
InternetNews July 7, 2004 Pamela Parker |
Marketing Drives Strong Second Quarter for Yahoo! Yahoo! saw growth in both search and brand advertising. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Win Yahoo!'s Billions With $3.5 billion in cash, Yahoo! needs to go shopping, and not stop until it has acquired a collection of properties to provide the growth spark that just doesn't seem possible organically these days. |
InternetNews March 18, 2008 |
Yahoo Forecasts Growth, Stands Firm on Microsoft As Microsoft's takeover attempt ensues, Yahoo avows financial health for the future. |
InternetNews April 7, 2008 |
Yahoo, Microsoft Bid Talk Heating Up As a three-week deadline set by Microsoft arrives, Yahoo responds. Ballmer also hints at hostility to come. |
InternetNews June 20, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
The New, More Open Yahoo? Yahoo will launch a new advertising product for advertisers and publishers that shares the lessons Yahoo has learned about user behavior from the roughly 500 million monthly visits to its network of sites. |
Information Today September 11, 2006 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Debuts New Business Research Engine All visitors to its Web site now have free access to the Business Web and can browse and search the proprietary business content for free. |
Information Today April 2003 |
The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Microsoft Plays Hard Ballmer Microsoft's pointed missive over the weekend -- which puts Yahoo! on the clock to accept its buyout bid within three weeks -- is a flare that some in the media have mistaken for a warning shot. |
InternetNews April 7, 2004 Janis Mara |
Yahoo! Soars Again The online giant outdoes positive expectations, benefiting from strong marketing services growth and double-digit growth in the volume of search queries. |
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Janis Mara |
Yahoo! Revenue Soars on Search, Ads Yahoo! aces another one, thanks to Overture, search and the improving online ad climate. |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Odd Times at Yahoo! Yahoo! is acquiring a San Francisco-based startup, Oddpost. The purchase will likely help Yahoo! rake in more reasons for users to either sign on or pay up for its premium Web-based mail service. |
InternetNews December 12, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Gets Close to Six Apart Yahoo added Movable Type blogging software to its Web hosting offerings, thanks to a partnership announced on Monday. |
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Market Demands More From Yahoo! Despite those healthy financial gains, Yahoo! stock got rattled last night, taken down a few bucks in after-hours trading. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
It's Good to Be Yahoo! Yahoo! has another healthy quarter on the strength of paid search. |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
5 Things That Can Go Wrong at Yahoo! Yahoo! should be very careful in its pursuit of a turnaround. |