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October 21, 2014
LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced that it has acquired Moreover and intends to create a single suite, LexisNexis Newsdesk, which will include the combined companies' information products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LexisNexis is a Reed Elsevier Group...
October 1, 2014
cognita AG, the developer of the issue and social media monitoring service blueReport , announced that it acquired net-clipping, a Dresden-based company with a similar product and attractive customer base, in August. While the company has continued to operate the...
October 1, 2014
Akio Software announced that it has acquired Spotter to add web and social media monitoring and analysis to its multi-channel customer experience suite. Spotter also contributes an international presence to the combined company with its offices in Europe, the US...
September 25, 2014
HootSuite announced that it has closed a $60 million financing round, bringing its total financing to $250 million. The company says the round was led by "a prominent global institutional investor," with participation by existing investors Accel Partners, Insight Venture...
September 15, 2014
Cision and Vocus announced that they have acquired Visible Technologies to add social media intelligence to the combined companies' suites of PR tools. Cision and Vocus were acquired earlier this year by the private equity fund GTCR, which has announced...
September 4, 2014
HootSuite announced that it acquired Brightkit in July and has developed its product into the new HootSuite Campaigns, a platform for building and managing marketing campaigns in social media channels. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that HootSuite has received...
September 3, 2014
In its third acquisition this year, Sprinklr announced that it has bought Branderati for its influencer and advocacy solution. Sprinklr's other acquisitions were Dachis Group in February and TBG Digital in August. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release blog post...
August 25, 2014
Evolve24 announced its merger with Sherpa Analytics, another company started by Evolve24 founder Anthony Sardella. The combined company has taken the Evolve24 name and plans to continue with both companies' products for social media intelligence in commercial, government and non-profit...
August 25, 2014
Polygraph Media announced that it has acquired Offergraph to combine the two companies' capabilities in social media analytics and predictive modeling. The company says it will incorporate Offergraph's technology in Polygraph's existing software platform, with details to be announced later...
August 14, 2014
Sprinklr announced the acquisition of TBG Digital to grow its ability to manage paid, earned and owned social media on a converged platform. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release blog post TBG video announcement...
July 31, 2014
Poptip announced that it has been acquired by Palantir, the developer of high-end intelligence platforms with an emphasis on government and financial markets. In a post on the company blog, Poptip founder Kelsey Falter describes plans to continue building data...
July 30, 2014
Innodata (NASDAQ: INOD) announced that it has acquired MediaMiser in a cash-and-deferred-payment deal worth C$5.78 million (US$5.38 million) by 2016, with an additional performance-based payment of up to C$5.0 million (US$4.60 million) in 2017. Innodata is a services company with...
July 22, 2014
Engagement Labs announced that it has agreed to acquire Entrinsic, a social media analytics and communications agency with revenues of around $2.4 million. The deal, subject to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, consists of cash and stock for a...
July 15, 2014
Lexalytics announced that it has acquired Semantria, a text analytics company that offers an Excel Add-in and a cloud-based API service built on Lexalytics’ Salience engine. The company positioned the acquisition as a move to make text analytics accessible to...
June 30, 2014
Webfluenz announced that it has been acquired by the decision sciences generalist firm Mu Sigma. SMA's acquisitions scorecard blog post...
June 10, 2014
Socialbakers announced that it has acquired Applum, a specialist developer of analytics tools for Facebook. Best known for its EdgeRank Checker product, the company also developed PostAcumen and ShareGrab. This is Socialbakers' second acquisition since its $26 million investment round...
May 19, 2014
Socialbakers announced that it has acquired Social Insider, a social media listening company based in Prague. The acquisition was first announced at the Babel Talk conference last month. Josef Slerka, Social Insider’s Managing Director and Head of New Media Studies...
May 1, 2014
Unified announced that it has acquired awe.sm for its social media attribution and conversion tracking technology. The company plans to integrate the awe.sm technology into its Social Operating Platform, while continuing to offer awe.sm's products separately. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press...
April 28, 2014
At the end of March, Twitter acquired two companies specializing in social media analysis for television: Mesagraph in France and SecondSync in the UK. Twitter also announced an expansion of its partnership with Kantar (UK, Spain) and pointed out its...
April 17, 2014
Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) announced that it has acquired the Fliptop social data matching business, which matches email addresses to individual profiles that include social network accounts. D&B plans to integrate the acquired technology as an enrichment to its...
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