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 …
Continue reading »Andrew Frank comments on the sophisticated interactive animation features of HTML5 as demonstrated by Google’s recent PacMan tribute.
“In case you missed this, Google wants you to know that, even though the official standard may be years away, HTML5 today is capable of some pretty sophisticated interactive animation today. Apple, …
Continue reading »As reported on the British Journal of Photography website, stock photo library provider Corbis (which is owned by Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft) are to close down their French subsidiary, Sygma, a prestigious press agency with a 37 year history. In part, the move is due to significant …
Continue reading »As reported on the BBC website, the British Library is to embark on an ambitious programme to digitise 40 million newspaper pages:
“The record of more than 300 years of journalism, including coverage of the Crimean and Boer Wars, will be put on the web by the publisher BrightSolid. …
Continue reading »In an interview with the New York Times, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Andy Rubin confirmed that Android 2.2 will include support for Flash:
He also promised that full support for Adobe’s Flash standard was coming in the next version of Android, code-named Froyo, for frozen yogurt (previous Android …
Continue reading »Fiercecontentmanagement.com have published a review of the AIIM show in Philadelphia last week where they identify 5 key trends that they perceive as being significant from this year’s show:
Following our discussion of MediaBeacon’s promotion of their support for the iPad, respected streaming media industry analyst, Dan Rayburn writing on his Streamingmedia.com blog last week declared that “Not having Flash working on the iPad is not that big of a deal for Adobe”:
While Flash was never supported …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, MediaBeacon yesterday (15th April) announced in this press release that their product was “the only DAM solution that can run on the new Apple iPad”:
“Because other asset managers have decided to develop their solution on proprietary plug-ins like Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flex or Flash, they will …
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