Profile

Since 1998, Moreover Technologies, Inc. has been a trusted aggregator of global news and social media. Clients include Shell Oil, Sony, Citigroup, Hill & Knowlton, BBC, Kingfisher, Durrants, Reuters UK, Siemens and Simon & Schuster. Through US and UK offices, the firm offers corporate customers worldwide direct access to comprehensive, yet targeted, near real-time business and consumer information from the Web's most read and respected sources. Daily, Moreover Technologies offers unified portal access to millions of news articles and social media posts from several million editorially vetted sources across 100+ countries, 75+ languages and 800+ searchable industry categories. Moreover Technologies is based in Reston, VA and maintains a major base of operations in London.

Purposes

Moreover Technologies simplifies and standardizes media monitoring, market and competitive intelligence, and associated analysis initiatives in a cost-effective, sustainable manner. Uses include media monitoring, reputation management, issues/crisis management, market & competitive intelligence, industry research, internal communications, PR/Media relations, brand management, content publishing & sharing, content complementing, and search engine services. Companies working with Moreover Technologies include enterprise corporations, media monitoring & Web analysis firms, search engine providers, partners, information professionals, and portal providers & publishers.

Performance Benchmarks

• Uses the Web's most powerful ping server, in development since the turn of the century; and helped create RSS standards.
• Enables near real-time relevant, user-friendly search, refinement and sharing of combined news and social media content.
• Goes beyond RSS with an editorial staff that reviews websites and a non-RSS-based indexing technology that mines information not on the feed radar (e.g., government reports, marketing research, company websites).
• Offers a sustainable one-source solution, eliminating vendor overlap and associated costs.
• Proves millions of dollars saved: "Consolidated media monitoring saves $5 million in one year." —Shell Case Study.
• Offers spam-free, editorially-reviewed media monitoring.
• Unifies global news and social media search through a single portal.
• Gives users easy and effective tools to pinpoint the most pertinent information without laborious searches.

Products

• Newsdesk—Cutting-edge SaaS News & Social Media discovery, refinement and sharing service.
• Metabase—"Feed of feeds" that accesses millions of breaking news articles/social media reports.
• Search Engine Toolkit (SET)—Versatile Search API to find and share breaking news without hosting or managing a dataset.

Milestones

• October 27, 2011—Newsdesk wins its third major award this year, a Silver in the Best Evaluation Process category at the second annual Digital Impact Awards in London.
• September 14, 2011—Moreover Technologies inks a deal with TVEyes, Inc. to incorporate broadcast coverage into Moreover's award-winning Newsdesk solution.
• September 13, 2011—Moreover Technologies announces a licensing partnership with DataSift, which includes access to Twitter and other social media; and gains social influence scoring.
• August 16, 2011—Moreover Technologies rolls out three versions of its award-winning Newsdesk media monitoring and news sharing solution to serve all types and sizes of business.
• June 23, 2011—Newsdesk wins a Stevie® Award in the New Product or Service of the Year-Media & Entertainment-Up to 100 Employees category at the 9th Annual American Business Awards^SM (ABA) gala; prevails among 2,800 nominations in 40-plus categories.
• June 7, 2011— Media company veteran Dan Schaible joins Moreover Technologies as Senior Vice President-Publishing to head up new a publishing division.
• February 1, 2011—Announcement of Newsdesk winning dual CODiE Awards—recognizing excellence in the business, digital content and education technology industries—from the Software & Information Industry Association: First recipient of a new SuperCategory Award for "Best Information Solution" and winner in the "Best Content Aggregation Solution" category.
• October 19, 2010—Release of a new version of Newsdesk news and social media discovery, refinement and sharing service, which gives users unified portal access to millions of daily news articles and social media posts, refined rapidly using cutting-edge faceted search and filtering tools.
• June 8, 2010—Announcement that social media sources have increased 390% in the one year since acquisition of the company from VeriSign, Inc.
• May 5, 2009—An investor group led by Paul J. Farrell acquires the Real-Time Publisher Services business from VeriSign, Inc. The RTP business re-launches as Moreover Technologies, Inc. The business includes both content aggregation services offered by Moreover, and ping server services provided by Weblogs.com.
• October 17, 2005—VeriSign, Inc. acquires Moreover Technologies. The new content aggregation services will utilize VeriSign's ping server infrastructure to increase the reliability and intelligence of its content distribution network.
• October 6, 2005—VeriSign, Inc. acquires the Weblogs.com ping server network.
• 2000—Moreover Technologies becomes involved with developing RSS standards through the RSS-DEV Working Group. UserLand Software evolves Weblogs.com, the original Web ping service.
• 1998—Nick Denton, David Galbraith and Angus Bankes found Moreover Technologies as an original content aggregation company.