Federated Media Publishing, a “next-generation” media company, announced the acquisition of a platform for semantic and linguistic profiling of web-based content from TextDigger, a San Jose-based semantic search startup. FM provides a full suite of media and marketing services for brand advertisers that depends heavily on a proprietary media and marketing technology platform. TextDigger’s technology complements FM’s platform with a set of semantic solutions for content tagging, filtering and clustering, as well as related tools that enhance the user experience, ad targeting, and semantic search engine optimization for a site. TextDigger will continue its search business, all of TextDigger’s customers will continue to be supported by either FM or TextDigger, depending on the type of project or service. www.federatedmedia.net www.textdigger.com
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IBM announced the acquisition of Datacap Inc., a privately-held company based in Tarrytown, NY. Datacap is a provider of software that enables organizations to transform the way they capture, manage and automate the flow of business information to improve business processes, reduce paper costs or manual errors and meet compliance mandates. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition strengthens IBM’s ability to help organizations digitize, manage and automate their information assets, particularly in paper-intensive industries such as healthcare, insurance, government and finance. Additionally, regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley have demanded new standards and now legislation is encouraging the adoption of new records management solutions, including scanning and capture to increase accuracy, lower costs and speed business processes to meet these regulations. http://ibm.com http://www.datacap.com/
Adobe Systems Incorporated and Day Software Holding AG announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to launch a public tender offer to acquire all of the publicly held registered shares of Day Software, for about $240 million. Adobe’s acquisition of Day will strengthen the company’s enterprise software solutions with Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings. Day’s lweb solutions combined with Adobe’s existing enterprise portfolio will enable customers to better integrate their global web presence and business applications, unlocking value across their marketing, sales and service processes. In addition, Day customers will be able to leverage more interactive application and document capabilities from Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Flex, Adobe LiveCycle and PDF. http://www.adobe.com/ http://www.day.com
Version 6.0 of the Syncro SVN Client brings improved performance, a new application interface and a complete redesign of the Working Copy layout. New features in version 6.0: Redesigned application layout; Configurable Working Copy view; Performance improvements; and Synchronized history view. http://www.syncrosvnclient.com
memoQ 4.2, by Kilgray, was integrated into XTRF 2.0, the management system for translation companies and corporate translation departments. XTRF supports the work of translation departments in three fields: management and administration of all company activities, management of workflow and of the production process, as well as management of the translation process. The integration of memoQ enables managing complete translation projects including from the very beginning until the translation is finished. http://www.xtrf.eu/ http://www.kilgray.com
TransPerfect, a large privately held language services and software provider, announced that it has completed a merger with AD-COM, a Montreal-based provider of technical translation services. The transaction expands TransPerfect’s presence in Canada, adding a Montreal production hub to the company’s three existing Canadian locations. AD-COM will become a division of TransPerfect and will continue to be led by Founder and President Claudia Cieri, who will join the TransPerfect senior management team. Cieri is a 20-year veteran of the translation and localization industry. http://www.transperfect.com/ http://www.ad-com.ca/
Ingeniux Corporation, a provider of web and social content management software, announced the release of Ingeniux CMS Version 7. A new In-Context Editing feature enables both HTML and XML content to be edited in Preview Mode, while reusing content and component-based XML content for efficiency. The overall client experience has also been redesigned with new accordion panes to organize key features and content items, and ribbons to streamline the user experience. A new Application Manager delivers an app store directly within Ingeniux CMS. A range of Ingeniux certified App Modules and third-party solutions enable web managers to enhance their sites with business solutions and site management capabilities. Site management enhancements include integrated analytics for Google and other providers; 301 redirect management and vanity URLs; and enhanced URL system to support extension-less URLS and other formats. Key Features Released in Version 7.0 include: In-Context Editing for structured and unstructured content; built-in Google analytics; Asset Management Enhancements; Redirects Module; Scheduled Content Notifications: set reminders for content updates; accordion pane, new tool bar, ribbons and tertiary menu; Application Manager; and International Client Localization: Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese language packs and localization reporting for site definitions. http://www.ingeniux.com
XMLmind announced the release of XMLmind Document Repository v1.1. XMLmind Document Repository, which is Open Source software. XMLmind Document Repository is a Web-based (WebDAV, REST) document store designed for technical writers, featuring automatic, transparent, versioning. This Open Source Servlet-based Web Application is intended to be the backend component of a future commercial offering. XMLmind Document Repository (XDR) can be installed and run as a desktop application: Self-contained distribution now includes a private Jetty 7 Servlet Container. New graphical application xdrcontrol allows to stop, configure or reconfigure and start or restart both Jetty and the XDR WebApp. Two new applications running in the Web browser allow to manage users and groups. http://www.xmlmind.com/
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