KnowNow winds down — RSS for enterprise not as easy as it looks?
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KnowNow, a startup that sought to deliver RSS services to large companies, is looking to sell after failing to build a viable business.
The San Francisco company started winding down about two weeks ago, VentureBeat has learned, after three different CEOs took turns a the helm but failed to build a business out of the new technology.
A source close to the company says the underlying technology is valuable, and he expects a sale.
RSS grabbed a… Continue Reading
KnowNow and WordPress partner for enterprise blogging & RSS
KnowNow, a Sunnyvale company that has made early inroads selling RSS technology to companies, has agreed to help sell and support WordPress blogging software.
The deal is significant because KnowNow has quietly been selling nicely priced software systems — both hosted and server systems — to companies that help those companies track transactions, news and other events via the RSS protocol. KnowNow has lacked its own blogging software, and this gives San Francisco’s Automattic, the company… Continue Reading
Topix raises $15 million more to build out local news
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Topix.net, the Palo Alto company that aggregates news on a single site, letting users see local and other relevant news to them, said it has raised $15 million more in financing.
Topix said in a statement that it raised its money from existing backers Gannett, McClatchy Company and Tribune Company.
Topix.net serves 32,500 local news communities, and has been busy introducing new features, such as online forums tied to local news. They also introduced an interactive… Continue Reading
KnowNow gets $13M more for RSS delivery — a lot of cash
KnowNow, a Sunnyvale company founded in 2000 and an early player in helping companies deliver data and information via RSS, said in a statement it has raised another $13 million.
This is a large amount of cash for the RSS area, where technology is relatively straight-forward. Though perhaps VentureBeat is missing something, and we’ll be in touch with the company to ask about its strategy. We’ll assume the company is in significant hiring mode, to try… Continue Reading