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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media monitoring |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | 1902 Campus Commons Dr, Suite 400,Reston, Virginia, 20191-1563, United States |
| Parent | LexisNexis |
| Website | www.moreover.com |
Moreover Technologies (generally known as "Moreover") is a provider ofbusiness intelligence,media monitoring andnews aggregation products for enterprises, also offering freenews feeds for consumers. Moreover was founded in 1998 byNick Denton, David Galbraith, and Angus Bankes.[1]
[2] In October 2014, Moreover was acquired byLexisNexis.[3]
Moreover became involved with developing theReally Simple Syndication (RSS) 1.0 standard in 2000[4] and was later acquired byVeriSign in 2005 for $30m.[5] As part of VeriSign the Moreover business unit was renamed as Real-Time Publisher Services being paired withWeblogs.com to create a platform for publishers and bloggers to track and distribute content. In May 2009, Moreover was sold to a private investor group led by Paul Farrell.[6] The sale included Weblogs.com with theping server becoming wholly owned and run by Moreover.
Moreover currently powers theAsk.com News Search[7] andBBC Newstracker,[8] having global headquarters inReston, Virginia and further offices inDayton,New York,San Francisco,Seattle andLondon; furthermore, in October 2014, Moreover was acquired by LexisNexis.[3] LexisNexis has since integrated Moreover's flagship product, Newsdesk, into their portfolio ofmedia intelligence solutions.
He turned to his old school friend Dave Galbraith who, though now trained as an architect, had been writing software for years. Together with another mutual school friend, Angus Bankes, they would come up with the software to support Moreover.com.