Verisign not done buying: looking at Moreover too |
Verisign apparently isn’t stopping at buying the weblogs.com pinging service according to Tom Foremski for Sillicon Valley Watcher:
VeriSign is about to announce it acquired Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco based news aggregator. The acquisition price is around $25m according to SVW sources.
Morevoer has a wide range of news/blog syndication features and co-wrote the RSS 1.0 standard. They also buddied up with Kanoodle for including contextual ads in RSS feeds through FeedDirect. I’m . They have been delivering RSS feeds since 1998. Bloggers, you can ping Morevoer through your blog client at: api.moreover.com/RPC2
Looks like Verisign wants to be a player in the RSS space.
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[…] Reuters seems to think eBay is buying the payment processing piece of Verisign to complement PayPal and get more into the direct credit card pocessing on the web world. Very smart move on eBay’s part if it’s true… My buddy TDavid reported recently that Verisign has not finished it’s buying spree after getting Weblogs and may be intersted in Moreover… […]
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