Podango Acquires Gigavox Audio Lite From Gigavox Media

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) September 25, 2007

Podango (http://podango.com), the online video and audio network that enables publishers and companies to “get heard” by today’s hard-to-reach, niche audiences, announced today that it has acquired the GigaVox Audio Lite technology from GigaVox Media. Deal terms were undisclosed.

Podango will incorporate GigaVox Audio Lite features and capabilities into its P2 podcasting platform, enabling publishers to automate component show assembly and improve post-production management. Podango publishers will be able to easily organize segments of a show, swap out segments from previously released shows and reuse segments (intros, credits, etc.) in future programs with the click of a mouse.

Lee Gibbons, CEO of Podango, said, “Our acquisition of the Gigavox Audio Lite technology reflects our commitment to delivering industry-leading tools to audio and video publishers who have made Podango the leading platform for hosting popular, episodic audio and video podcasts.”

Michael Geoghegan, CEO of GigaVox Media added, “We are delighted that Podango recognized the value of the technology we developed. Their decision to acquire it outright and integrate into their Podango P2 platform gives them a decisive competitive advantage.”

Jason Van Orden, Podcasting Author and Consultant, explains, “I use GigaVox Audio Lite in my consulting practice and teach its use in my new Podcasting course. This is a great tool for podcasters. It typically cuts the time to publish a new episode in half. The addition of GigaVox Audio Lite and WordPress support to Podango’s P2 platform offers great value to podcasters.”

Podango lets podcasters host and manage their own podcast stations using the company’s hosting, syndication, audience measurement and Web site creation tools. The company also offers publishers an embeddable podcast player for use in websites. Hosting their shows at Podango for free, podcasters who publish stand-alone shows or participate in Podango stations earn income by sharing advertising revenue from the aggregate of Podango-hosted stations. Podango also owns and operates a state-of-the-art production studio in the Bay Area.

Though the GigaVox Audio Lite beta is closed for new customers, Podango will continue to support existing customers through the transition period. The beta program will open again once the integration with the P2 platform is complete.

About Podango

Podango is the online video and audio network that enables publishers and advertisers to “get heard” by today’s hard-to-reach, niche audiences. Featuring such hit shows as The Apple Phone Show, Podango hosts over 1,000 programs — including a number routinely found among the top twenty-five podcast shows on iTunes — on a wide variety of interests and topics. Through the company’s hosting and syndication services, corporate, professional and independent publishers deliver episodic video and audio programs, and targeted ads to highly qualified audiences. Podango also owns and operates its own a state-of-the-art production studio in the Bay Area. For more information please visit: http://www.podango.com.

About GigaVox Media

GigaVox Media, Inc. is the leading audio/video podcast technology company having been formed to further develop the technology created while building the original podcast network: IT Conversations. GigaVox also produces the longest running professional podcast training events: The Podcast Academy and has just launched the Podcast Academy series of books through Focal Press. For more information please visit http://www.gigavox.com

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Podango Acquires Gigavox Audio Lite From Gigavox Media

HootSuite Acquires Android Developer Swift App to Speed Development for Google"s Open Mobile Platform

(PRWEB) March 12, 2010

HootSuite Media, Inc. have acquired Swift App, Inc. a company specializing in Android App development, notably their flagship product “Swift App,” a Twitter client for Android. The acquisition means quicker development for the growing Android market and is a show of support for the emerging mobile platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The HootSuite for Android app allows users to update multiple Twitter profiles, perform realtime search, track keywords and examine click-through statistics for messages directly from the phone. Future plans for the Android app include Facebook integration and other tools to benefit marketers, consultants, collaborative teams from businesses to governments.

The Android open source mobile platform is now available on handsets from a variety of manufacturers members of the Open Handset Alliance who have produced phones such as the Motorola Droid or Google’s own Nexus One manufactured by HTC. The software is open source under an Apache license meaning that vendors can add proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community.

HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes is enthusiastic about the growth potential for Android in the marketplace, “Android development is a key component to our business strategy and we are excited about the revolution in the mobile industry catalyzed by the Open Handset Alliance. With tens of thousands of phone shipping daily from dozens of manufacturers, we see no end in sight for this open standard. “

The acquisition sees Swift App developer Sebastian Delmont joining HootSuite as a mobile adviser. Delmont says, “I am delighted to see HootSuite coming to Android, merging their amazing social media platform into the fastest Android Twitter client to produce one of the best mobile Twitter experiences.”

HootSuite released a version of the social media dashboard for Android on March 2, 2010 based on the foundation developed by Swift App. The app is available in Lite (free) or Full (paid) versions from the Android Market and received favorable coverage from many notable tech news sources including Mashable, TechCrunch, GigaOm, Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble, and ReadWriteWeb, along with dozens more news outlets. Release news roundup: http://blog.hootsuite.com/android-iphone-news-roundup/

In addition to the Android app, HootSuite offers a popular social media dashboard web app, two versions of iPhone

HootSuite Acquires Android Developer Swift App to Speed Development for Google"s Open Mobile Platform

Jacob Tyler Acquires Web Design Firm Sessionwise

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 12, 2011

Jacob Tyler Creative Group, a San Diego-based brand communications firm, announced today that the company is acquiring Sessionwise, a web design and development firm. Steve Stadwiser, former President of Sessionwise, takes on the key role of Interactive Director Jacob Tyler, bringing extensive expertise in web design and development. With more than 13 years of experience in the web/interactive industry, work includes a wide range of clients, both national and local. At Jacob Tyler, his role will focus on providing clients front-end development services.

Every decision we make as a company is done so with the client in mind, says Charlie Van Vechten, President of Jacob Tyler. Sessionwise will allow us to again expand our services and ensure a seamless offering of creating, promoting and protecting ones brand.

Jacob Tyler is a firm thats squarely focused on the client; a belief that was the cornerstone of Sessionwise, says Stadwiser. The integration of the two companies makes complete sense and is one of those rare business marriages that will show immediate impact to the clients served.

Services offered by Sessionwise, now Jacob Tyler include: Custom Website Design, Standards-Based XHTML/CSS Production, Ecommerce Development, Website Maintenance Packages, Joomla CMS Development, WordPress Development, Email Marketing Design, and Content Management Systems. Clients include Adobe, TED, The San Diego Reader, Urban Solace Restaurant, Gap Intelligence, Youth Specialties, System Electric, TAAZ, Playable Hours, Crawford & Co., and Mama’s Kitchen.

Jacob Tyler Acquires Web Design Firm Sessionwise

IDX Acquires RealLead, a Real-Time Lead Capture Solution For Realtors

Eugene,ORE. (PRWEB) April 25, 2012

IDX, Inc. a nationally known leading provider of real estate search applications, today announced it has acquired RealLead, LLC, a real estate lead generation technology company that matches buyers and sellers with consumers. IDX will add RealLeads mobile marketing tools and their proprietary lead marketplace into their growing portfolio of software products that helps real estate firms provide a higher quality of services to both property buyers and sellers.

Being acquired by IDX will be great for RealLead. The synergies are perfect. Being able to offer our cutting-edge mobile marketing and real-time lead capture tools, with IDXs real estate search applications will make the combination of our product offerings very appealing to real estate firms looking to take their services to home buyers and sellers to another level, and differentiate themselves in the marketplace, said Caroline Cummings, co-founder and chief executive officer of RealLead.

Response time, coupled with a measurable mobile marketing strategy, are critical to securing and selling listings in todays real estate market. The real estate industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, where consumers want instant property information. Research indicates consumers want an agent to contact them within fifteen to thirty minutes of their interest in a property, and agents want quality leads with real consumer data. RealLeads technology helps facilitate this connection.

RealLead and IDX will be stronger companies together. Real estate agents can get frustrated by having to partner with several different companies to grow their businesses. They can now work with one nationally known real estate technology provider for all of their website search needs, all of their mobile marketing needs and generate more quality leads as a result. Acquiring RealLead was a no-brainer for us, commented Chad Barczak, CEO of IDX, Inc.

RealLead was founded a little less than a year ago, and already has a national customer base. The RealLead marketing products are available to any real estate Agent or Broker in the continental United States, and is free to set-up. Agents and Brokers can add the RealLead marketing product to all of their listings for free, and choose to only claim the leads they want. Leads are affordably priced from $ 0.99 to $ 2.99 each, and include the consumers real phone number. Other free products with sign-up include a single property mobile website per listing, marketing materials, access to the Lead Marketplace where they can purchase unclaimed leads, and a dashboard for agents and offices to track the return on their mobile marketing investment, as well as determine which marketing materials (lawn signs, flyers, newspaper ads, magazine ads, CraigsList ads, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) are providing the best leads.

I purchased a lead from RealLead for only $ 0.99, called him immediately, and within a few of hours started his pre-approval process for his first-time home purchase. If youre not using RealLead on your listings, youre missing out, said Lori Monstein, a broker with Windereme Real Estate Lane County.

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WooThemes Acquires Fully Responsive Slider Plugin FlexSlider

Cape Town, South Africa (PRWEB) March 07, 2012

WooThemes, one of the largest theme and infrastructure providers for WordPress sites, today announced that the company has acquired the FlexSlider jQuery library. The acquisition is part of a broader strategy to bring under one roof a suite of products that offer complete end-to-end WordPress development, and further solidify WooThemes as a true platform for the best sites in the world.

Importantly, the beautiful jQuery slider plugin will remain free and open source, and creator Tyler Smith will continue to maintain, support and upgrade the current library. With FlexSlider, both true beginners and seasoned developers can create a fully responsive slider for their responsive designs in three simple steps.

We have been using FlexSlider in many of our products, and have absolutely fallen in love with it, said WooThemes co-founder Adii Pienaar. Not only that, we think that FlexSlider is strategic to our vision of WooThemes as the platform of choice for everything WordPress. Responsive Web design can be complicated, and with FlexSlider, Tyler un-complicated it. The plugin will remain free and open source so that anyone and everyone can help us improve even more. This is just as much about long-term stability for FlexSlider as it is about what WooThemes can do with it.

WooThemes, founded over 4 years ago, has amassed 75,000 paying customers, and its free themes have been downloaded more than 1.3 million times. WordPress itself currently powers 22% of all websites in the US.

WooThemes specifically chose FlexSlider over other alternatives based on the ease of implementation due to the simple and semantic markup, and the fully responsive functionality. FlexSlider is also very compatible with other libraries and easy to use across all environments. Competing plugins include Slides, Nivo Slider and wmvSlider.

FlexSlider is special. We are really focused on new products that extend not only our themes, but any WordPress installation, no matter where it resides, or how it originated, said Magnus Jepson, co-founder of WooThemes. Seamless integration between themes and plugins sounds great, but it is non-trivial in practice, and makes a huge difference for WordPress developers new and old. And at WooThemes generally, were officially on a mission now to claim more and more real estate in the average WP stack. Were not just growing our own product base, were adding everything thats been missing along the way. We want to be the dream WP stack. WooCommerce was a huge step in the right direction, and now were thrilled to offer even more with FlexSlider.

The open and extensible nature of FlexSlider also provides the WooThemes team and community a chance to further enhance the project ongoing. FlexSlider was developed under the MIT free software license, which allows for reuse in proprietary software. The WooThemes team is currently working on the next version with Smith, which will include a number of optimizations and new features, and will continue to maintain and update FlexSlider on its GitHub project page.

WooThemes is also working on a Woo-agnostic version of FlexSlider for easy integration into any installation.

FlexSlider is available for download today. More information on FlexSlider can be found at http://woothemes.com/flexslider.

FlexSlider Features Include:

WooThemes Acquires Fully Responsive Slider Plugin FlexSlider

Search Engine Marketing Company Eniche Solutions Acquires IcaptureMarketing.com

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2012

On Monday, November 19, 2012, Eniche Solutions announced the acquisition of icapturemarketing.com.

Icapturemarketing.com is a Los Angeles marketing company that specializes in the custom development of advanced websites and marketing solutions. More specifically, icapturemarketing.com is known for building automated marketing systems that help the search engine optimization value and traffic of a website. The company also builds custom websites and specializes in using platforms such as social engine and WordPress.

With the acquisition of Icapturemarketing.com, Eniche Solutions plans to significantly expand its operations. Although the specific terms of the deal are confidential, it is known that leading Los Angeles web developer and president of Icapturemarketing.com Nicholas Lucas will continue to run Icapturemarketing.com in addition to engaging in custom web development under the Eniche Solutions brand.

When asked about the deal, Nicholas Lucas stated, “I am excited about working with Eniche Solutions and getting more involved with search engine optimization and social media.”

For more information about the deal between Eniche Solutions and Icapturemarketing.com, call (800) 551-6288.

With its main offices located in Los Angeles, California, Eniche Solutions is an internet marketing company that focuses on search engine optimization and niche marketing for attorneys and other professional service industries.

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Small Business Trends Acquires Social Media Site BizSugar.com

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) May 21, 2009

Small Business Trends LLC announced that it has acquired BizSugar.com (http://www.bizsugar.com), an online social media and content sharing website for small businesses and entrepreneurs. This acquisition is aligned with Small Business Trends’ continued focus on serving small businesses and entrepreneurs, and the small business market as a whole.

BizSugar is a site in which small businesses can share news, information, blog posts, videos, podcasts, images and other content for the benefit of other business owners and entrepreneurs. It’s a way to highlight what small businesses are doing, and bring visibility to their businesses, their thinking, their content, as well as help them navigate successfully through the challenges and issues they face each day.

BizSugar was launched in October, 2007 by DBH Communications, Inc. It has several thousand registered members. The sale includes the social site, website widgets, blog, weekly newsletter, WordPress plugin, associated domain names, and the trademarked BizSugar name/logo and “Sweet!” voting buttons.

“BizSugar has been lovingly cared for and tended. A lot of social sites for small businesses quickly become spammy. Too often they become neglected. BizSugar is neither of those things. I’ve been aware of the site since it launched in 2007,” said Anita Campbell, CEO of Small Business Trends. “Small businesses need as much help and support as they can get for online visibility – BizSugar helps highlight the good work of small businesses. At the same time, it is a learning tool where one can find out important business resources and advice, and discover useful insights about owning and operating a small business, and what it feels like to be an entrepreneur. I and the entire extended Small Business Trends team are excited and look forward to continuing the work that John Holsen and the team at DBH Communications started — and living up to their standards.”

“I am excited to have Anita Campbell and her team taking over the reins of BizSugar,” said John Holsen, president of DBH Communications, Inc. and founder of BizSugar. “Her websites have a strong following, and I recognize their commitment to educating and assisting entrepreneurs. I believe they will take BizSugar to a new level for reaching and helping the small business community. I know I’ve left the website in good hands.”

If you own and operate a small business and haven’t familiarized yourself with BizSugar yet, now is the time to take a moment to do so. The site contains quality content and becoming a member is easy to do. Simply visit BizSugar, click the register tab and come join this vivid community of small business owners. Share your content, vote on submissions, network and connect with others in your industry and bring visibility to your business — all while having a bit of fun. Sprinkle some sugar on your business. Sweet!

About BizSugar.com:

BizSugar is a free social media website for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The site helps entrepreneurs, small business owners, and small business people share information and make their businesses more aware online. BizSugar was founded in October, 2007 by DBH Communications, Inc., a publisher of small business news and information. The BizSugar blog can be found at http://blog.bizsugar.com.

Updates are published on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/bizsugar. Users can also connect with BizSugar and get updates on FriendFeed at: http://friendfeed.com/bizsugar. Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84363597377 YouTube: http://youtube.com/bizsugar. LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1963054.

About Small Business Trends:

Small Business Trends LLC is in the business of providing information, news, advice and online community to small businesses and entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Ohio. Its flagship website, Small Business Trends (http://smallbiztrends.com) is one of the leading sources of commentary, information and online community touching over 1,000,000 small businesses annually.

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Photocrati Media Acquires NextGEN Gallery

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) June 19, 2012

Photocrati Media is about to get even better. As part of Photocratis ongoing effort to seamlessly provide the best integrated WordPress solutions for photographers all under one roof, we are excited to announce Photocratis recent acquisition of the highly popular NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin.

Developed by Alex Rabe in 2007, the NextGEN gallery plugin is now the dominant image gallery plugin for WordPress. With more than 5 million downloads, NextGEN Gallery is also one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time.

We are very excited about bringing NextGEN to Photocrati, says Erick Danzer, founder and CEO of Photocrati Media. It means that we can really create the advanced functionality that photographers are looking for with our WordPress themes.

Blending Photocrati and NextGEN also means that Photocratis team of experts is available to improve and advance NextGENs core functionality and interface. We are very committed to continuing the development of NextGEN Gallery as a free GPL plugin, and were dedicated to maintaining NextGEN as the most popular gallery plugin for WordPress, says Danzer.

The Photocrati Team is also looking forward to interacting with the NextGEN community. There are many talented developers who have contributed to and launched extension plugins for NextGEN. We hope to build an even stronger sense of community and interaction around the plugin, both with users and with the developer community, says Danzer. In fact, Photocrati is currently seeking beta testers and contributors.

NextGEN Updates by Photocrati

NextGEN users can expect some exciting updates throughout the year. The Photocrati team plans to: improve and streamline the existing back-end interface; add an interface to create and manage galleries directly from posts and pages; work with Automattic to make NextGENs architecture compatible with the WordPress VIP environment; and to make a range of smaller fixes and security patches.

Coming soon, a Pro version!

Later this year, Photocrati will also launch a premium upgrade for NextGEN, called NextGEN Pro. NextGEN Pro will offer a range of beautiful new gallery display styles as well as fully-featured ecommerce functionality. Some of the plans for NextGEN Pro include: alternative slideshow displays; alternative filmstrip displays; alternative thumbnail displays; caption and filmstrip skins to adjust styling; fully-featured ecommerce for all gallery types and including print and price options; digital downloads; and shopping cart and PayPal integration.

NextGEN + Photocrati WordPress Theme = One amazing package

The Photocrati Team is already hard at work merging NextGEN and NextGEN Pro into the popular Photocrati WordPress theme. Soon, Photocrati users will have all the functionality of these plugins seamlessly available in the Photocrati theme, without losing any of the options or gallery displays currently available.

Photocrati will have more big news soon. Follow Photocrati on Twitter or sign up for NextGEN updates via email.

About Photocrati.com

Photocrati Media is a digital media company that specializes in WordPress themes for photographers, SEO for photographers, and other resources for photographers. Photocrati Media also runs Best of Wedding Photography an elite, invitation-only association of the best wedding photographers in the world. Photocrati Media proudly sponsors the Photocrati Fund a $ 5,000 grant for photographers working on important environmental and humanitarian projects.

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