Category: Industry News

Box.net announced last week that they secured another US $81m funding from NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors.  We have mentioned a number of times before how Box.net are more of a threat to their more expensive peers in both the ECM and DAM sector than …

The Adobe Max conference saw the announcement of a few acquisitions and new products which might show the direction the company is taking and some potential trends for DAM:

• Adobe announced they are acquiring Nitobi, sponsors of the open source PhoneGap system that allows end users to create mobile

In a recent move to enhance their image search, Google will now index the embedded Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data from image files featured in their image search.  The EXIF format, that records detailed information regarding the technical specification of each image (such as aperture, focal length, exposure length …

Private equity investment group, North Bridge Venture Partners, has released the results of its annual Future Of Open Source survey in conjunction with 20 collaborators.  Unlike previous years, the vendor/non-vendor split was 40/60 in favour of the latter.  The results indicate that within the next five years, it …

The investment site, The Motley Fool, has tipped Czech Digital Asset Management vendor KIT Digital as a stock to watch noting that the Video Asset Management sector is a growth area as more companies outsource their video content management facilities:

“It’s a simple thesis, really. Video content is going …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Celum, will open a new research and development centre in Linz, Austria on 17th May 2011.

“The new R&D Center, ARK 1 is located in the Linzer green belt. The architecture firm Schauer designed an ultra-low energy building with space for up to …

As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, the UK’s national tourist agency, Visit Britain has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Photolibrary.com who will promote 600 rare film clips in their collection:

“Photolibrary Group has extended its exclusive distribution agreement with VisitBritain, Britain’s national tourist agency, to include access to it’s collection …

KIT Digital, provider of video asset management software and related services, have announced the purchase of IP video management and delivery company, Ioko for $91.4 million in cash and stock.

“Ioko provides an end-to-end managed cloud-based platform for multi-screen video delivery over connected IP devices to telecommunications cable, media and …

In this article, S. Shyamala at Financial Chronicle identifies the unwillingness of the Indian film industry to embrace the latest digital technologies. Both a lack of knowledge and also financial issues severely hamper the adoption of digital technologies in the sector, and despite some market penetration by digital asset management …

A research project conducted by BML has found in a survey of the UK’s top publishing companies that revenue from e-book sales was predicted to increase significantly in 2011 – 2012, representing a tipping point for mass market adoption of new electronic formats. 

“‘If 2010 has been acknowledged as the …

One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, has announced that technology private equity investment firm, Accel-KKR has made a ‘substantial investment’ into their business.  Hassan Kotob, Executive Chairman of North Plains commented:

“Today’s global marketing organizations are struggling to keep pace with the growing volume of …