The Emerging Media Conference kicks off on 24th January (2011) in San Francisco. The event will cover a variety of new media areas of interest, including:
Speakers include Jesse Schell (Carnegie Mellon University), …
Continue reading »Palgrave Macmillan, publishers of the Digital Asset Management Journal have just released what they are calling their “Mega Metadata Issue”, this includes a number of articles all around the theme of metadata:
Adobe today announced a suite of tools to assist publishers to produce and sell on-line content. The move is believed to be a response to the increased demand for electronic books and newspapers as a result of the increasing popularity of the Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad and other hybrid mobile …
Continue reading »Createasphere have announced that they have selected Jason Bright of Media Beacon as the winner of their DAMMY of the year award:
“The goal of the DAMMY Awards is to raise awareness of the rapidly evolving, increasingly crucial role of digital asset management (DAM); to promote creative and technical …
Continue reading »Breaking News – Wowza Media Systems, developers of the Wowza Media Server, have announced a new licensing agreement with digital media asset management provider, Dalet Digital Media Systems.
“The integration of Wowza Media Server 2 adds market-proven streaming capabilities to the Dalet MAM platform’s already powerful functionality, which includes shot …
Continue reading »North America’s leading digital television distributor, MIJO Corporation, has recently announced its acquisition of Adbeast – a web-based digital asset management business, dedicated to the needs of the advertising industry.
Steve Hancock, Founder and Principal of adbeast adds, “It is with much excitement that we join one of the most …
Continue reading »MRM Vendor, Unica has announced that it has been acquired by IBM in this press release:
“IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica in a cash transaction at a price of $21 per share, …
Continue reading »Adobe have announced today that they intend to acquire Swiss content management software vendor, Day Software for US$240m (subject to shareholder approval):
“Adobe’s acquisition of Day will strengthen the company’s enterprise software solutions with market leading Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings. This acquisition …
Continue reading »Web Experience Management vendor, Fatwire, yesterday announced they had selected EMC’s DAM offering: EMC Documentum Media WorkSpace as their DAM platform of choice:
“FatWire offers Media WorkSpace, EMC Documentum Digital Asset Manager and EMC Documentum Content Transformation Services as FatWire’s comprehensive solution for Digital Asset Management. FatWire selected …
Continue reading »Createsphere, organisers of the DAM Expo on September 23rd-24th in New York (NYC) later this year have announced they will present “The DAMMYS”, a series of awards specifically for the DAM industry:
As reported by the BBC, Getty Images have recently announced that they are extending an arrangement they have with Flickr to resell images shot by professional and semi-pro Flickr users to their commercial clients under a dedicated ‘Flickr Collection’. Now all Flickr users can opt into this scheme.
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Continue reading »As reported in the Wall Street Journal last week, legendary investor, Warren Buffet, CEO and Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and the world’s 2nd richest man has recently acquired nearly 800,000 shares of Document Management group, Iron Mountain.
Buffet is renowned for his tendency to avoid tech stocks because …
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