'Net Features : partnership

Afternic Gains Endurance

Michael Garrity — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:46:00 GMT

Premium domain marketplace Afternic has teamed up with the Endurance International Group in a partnership that will bring Afternic a noteworthy collection of fast transfer-enabled domains.

Endurance is one of the top ICANN-accredited registrars and providers of domains, as well as Web hosting and other online services for small- and medium-sized businesses. It also happens to offer the fastest transfer domains worldwide for sale through its various brands, which include Domain.com and Dotster.

Now, the customers of Endurance’s businesses can see the AfternicDLS inventory of domains whenever they do a domain search. Plus, they will now have the opportunity to list their domains in Afternic’s system, which puts them in a huge marketplace and makes them available to many more potential customers.

After combining the number of domain registrations made by its hosting companies and registrars, Endurance International Group is actually the third largest domain registrar on the Web, largely because it works with a number of very large hosting companies, like HostGator, BlueHost and Fatcow.

For now, Afternic domain listings are live on Domain.com, and they’re expected to appear on other Endurance brands over the next few weeks.

Kodak & Alfresco a Picture Perfect Partnership

Allison Howen — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:30:00 GMT

This new partnership may prove to be picture perfect.

Kodak has teamed up with open source content management system Alfresco to offer businesses robust content and document management services.

Although more famous for being an imaging innovator, Kodak has delivered managed services and solutions to large enterprises and governments around the world for years. A lot of Kodak’s work focuses primarily on providing better usability and accessibility to data through scanning, storing and retrieving critical documents and information. Additionally, the company has helped governments capture and share hundreds of millions of documents. And with this new partnership, Kodak and Alfresco will aim to provide a stronger set of services and solutions than previously offered.

“This is the beginning of a strategic relationship that will differentiate both Kodak and Alfresco in the marketplace,” says Roberto Colangelo, Kodak’s General Manager for Worldwide Services. “By combining Alfresco’s industry leading enterprise content management systems with our own technology and capabilities, we will address the growing need for complex content and document solutions, serving customers in ways they never thought possible. We expect to have an immediate and long-lasting impact in the markets we serve.”

According to Colangelo, Kodak is moving beyond scanning to participate in more sophisticated content and document management services.

“The combination of Kodak’s brand paired with our trusted platform makes this an extremely valuable alliance for us,” says John Powell, CEO, Alfresco. “We are very excited to partner with Kodak to extend our services and software offerings on a global scale. We look forward to future collaboration in the cloud, mobile, and on-premise all working seamlessly together to meet Kodak’s growing content management needs.”

Yahoo! & ABC News Form Information Alliance

Michael Garrity — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:35:00 GMT

In a huge announcement made early this morning, two global media powerhouses, Yahoo! and ABC News, revealed that they will be combining their journalistic forces. This unprecedented move could have major ramifications in the news and search industries, potentially forcing other major search engines to establish similar partnerships with news organizations.

Currently, the two companies reach a combined audience of over 100 million people in the United States on PCs and various mobile devices.

This interesting, multifaceted relationship should prove to be a boon for both organizations. Yahoo! will provide a huge, unique and new audience to ABC News, a well-respected and trusted news enterprise with decades of experience.

The biggest part of this "information alliance," in addition to providing far more people with far greater access to news, is that the companies will establish more original news videos online than ever before.

Today saw the launch of GoodMorningAmerica.com on Yahoo!, the official beginning of the partnership. Also debuting today will be the first of three new, online-first video series featuring some of ABC News' most popular anchors and correspondents. The new shows include Newsmakers, which presents online-first video conversations with top ABC anchors, like Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric or Barbara Walters, interviewing "everyone from politicians to global leaders to celebrities." Today's installment, which airs live at 2:35 p.m. ET, features George Stephanopoulos talking with President Obama. No big deal, right?

The two other new shows are Around the World with Christiane Amanpour, which spotlights the internationally-renowned host bringing her special background to light as she explains, contextualizes and analyzes the biggest stories around the world, and This Could Be Big, a show, hosted by Nightline anchor Bill Weir, about future innovations that could drastically alter the world. Other shows will debut in the coming months and throughout 2012.

A headline making announcement like this is bound to really change the way many people around the world get their news. For instance, ABC News will now be Yahoo! News' premier provider, which really alters the makeup of Yahoo! News for its millions of readers. Also, the aforementioned GoodMorningAmerica.com will exist as a co-branded site that offers a wide variety of video and news so that the huge audience of the GMA morning broadcast can engage with the content online before, during and after the show airs.

The two companies will also begin collaborating on news content and co-producing coverage for major events. There will be "integrated bureaus" in the cities of New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

And lest we forget that there is also money involved, the two enterprises will be creating a suite of premium online video advertising opportunities, as well as new enhanced sponsorships that will allow advertisers to benefit from the unique strengths of each sales organization.

Yahoo!'s recent struggles have been well-noted, so it should be interesting to see how this new partnership affects the company in this period of transition.

The two organizations promise to "deliver the latest breaking news, the biggest exclusives and award-winning investigative journalism from a powerful lineup of journalists -- all with the ability to extend across TV and online like never before."

Tribal Fusion Teams Up with BlueKai

Allison Howen — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:15:00 GMT

A new deal between Tribal Fusion, a provider of online display advertising, and BlueKai, a platform for data management, analysis and acquisition, will expand on the companies existing relationship, and add a new layer of integrated data to Tribal Fusion’s date and profiling platform — E9.

The deal allows Tribal Fusion display campaigns to be customized based on users’ purchase intentions, and all in real time. Additionally, it will allow for better targeting campaigns, provide improved campaign optimization and faster set-up times.

This partnership will also help Tribal Fusion provide better audience insight reports for its clients, which will detail precise purchase behavior of converting customers, as well as enable more effective media planning and buying.

"We are excited to see partners like Tribal Fusion embrace the BlueKai Exchange as one of their integrated third-party data sources," says Jon Ingalls, Chief Marketing Officer at BlueKai. "The partnership is a testament to Tribal Fusion's ongoing commitment to delivering data-centric targeting strategies and meaningful audience analytics to their clients."