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Meltwater Group 
Type Privately held company Founded 2001, Oslo, Norway Headquarters San Francisco, United States Area served Worldwide Employees approx. 800 (2010) Website http://meltwater.com/ Meltwater Group is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company founded in Oslo, Norway in 2001 based on research originally funded by the Norwegian Computing Center. The founder and CEO, Jørn Lyseggen, has also founded a number of other startups. Since 2001, it has added offices in Europe, North America, Asia/Pacific, Australia, and Africa.
Now headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers Software as a Service products in a variety of market verticals. The company employs more than 700 people and has more than 19,000 clients internationally.
In 2011, the company acquired JitterJam[1] and IceRocket,[2] and incorporated their technology into Meltwater Buzz.
The Meltwater Foundation, a non-profit branch of the company, provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young African students at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana.
Contents
Products
- Meltwater News, formerly known as Magenta News, is an online media intelligence service which searches news sources for keywords of relevance to its business customers.
- Meltwater Buzz is a social media measurement tool for tracking and analysis of user-generated content on the web.[3]
- Meltwater Drive is a cloud computing tool for collaboration, file sharing, project management and file backup of computer documents.
- Meltwater Talent is a recruitment management software that automates the recruitment process for HR professionals.
- Meltwater Press is a web-based media contact database that uses Natural Language Processing technology to connect journalists with their most relevant covered topics. It can be used to find journalists related to an industry topic, and distribute company news to chosen journalists.
- Meltwater Reach is a Search Engine Marketing solution that automates online advertising campaigns.
Non-profit
- Meltwater Foundation is Meltwater’s non-profit arm. It funds the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a two-year entrepreneurial training program in Ghana, Africa.
Aggregation lawsuit
Meltwater referred the UK Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) to the UK Copyright Tribunal after the NLA introduced a licence covering aggregator which crawls sites and offers paid for services based on these copies.[4][5] The case is due to be heard in February 2011.[6]
In mid-March 2010, in an interim jurisdiction question the Copyright Tribunal ruled in favor of Meltwater and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA). The NLA was ordered to pay the costs of the suit.[7] The Times Online – not part of the NLA licence – has separately started to block Meltwater's web crawler from its site.[8]
External links
References
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/22/meltwater-group-buys-social-crm-startup-jitterjam-for-6-million/
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/meltwater-acquires-realtime-search-engine-icerocket/
- ^ http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/05/prweb3993384.htm
- ^ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100317/1128238596.shtml
- ^ http://econsultancy.com/blog/4902-the-nla-explains-why-it-is-going-after-the-news-aggregators
- ^ http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/990380/Copyright-Tribunal-rules-favour-PRCA-NLA-challenges-license-opposition/
- ^ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100317/1128238596.shtml
- ^ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100317/1128238596.shtml
Categories:- Companies established in 2001
- Privately held companies based in California
- Software companies of Norway
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