SAP has acquired software from Datango that will allow it to add multilingual online help and training materials to enterprise software applications. The move will broaden SAP‘s software training portfolio and could help its customers cut support costs through improved user training. The Datango software makes it easier for enterprises to create documentation, classroom training Full Article…
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Symantec buys LiveOffice.com for 115 million $
Security and storage giant Symantec has announced the acquisition of cloud email archiving company LiveOffice. The acquisition price was $115 million. LiveOffice is a SaaS provider of email archiving, compliance and hosting. In addition to providing cloud based email archiving, and also archives email which is on-premise. By hosting email archives with them, customers can Full Article…
Tagged buys Hi5
Tagged bought Hi5 for a non-disclosed sum. In 2008 Hi5 was the top in social networks , in front of MySpace or Facebook. The biggest problem was to interconnect people, a technology that Tagged seems to have. The income for the latter company is about 40-45 million USD per year, so they an afford a Full Article…
Nouvel Observateur buys Rue89.com
Claude Perdriel, the boss of “Nouvel Observateur” invested already 200.000 € for 3.5% of website Rue89, believing in this pure french player. Launched in may 2007, the website growth very good and is in position of having 2 million unique visitors every month. The title will remain independent but within the group. Pierre Haski, president, Laurent Full Article…
8.5 bln $ loss for Microsoft in “online adventure”
The adventure in online business for Microsoft is extremely costly : 8.5 billion US Dollars loss, with 2.5 billion loss only in 2011. Because of this, is very probable the selling (always in loss) of Ciao to LeGuide , for an amount non disclosed. One of the major causes is losing positions in search engines, because of Panda, estimated Full Article…