Wednesday January 8, 2025

Audience Measurement Consolidates As ComScore Closes $768M Rentrak Acquisition

 Some more consolidation in the online measurement and analytics space: today comScore has announced that it has closed its $767.7 million deal to acquire Rentrak in an all-stock deal that brings together Rentrak’s TV and cinema audience tracking business with comScore’s business covering Internet and mobile audiences to better compete against the likes of Nielsen. The […]

As Primary Season Opens, OpenText Releases Election News Tracking Tool

 After months of debates, social media chatter, outrage and craziness, the presidential primary season finally opens today with the Iowa caucuses. In response to that milestone, OpenText announced it was releasing a new tool to help voters track news around the elections and parse that by candidate and issues. The tool is called Election Tracker 16 […]

Microsoft Announces The First Technical Preview Of Azure Stack

 With Azure Stack, Microsoft wants to bring its Azure cloud computing services into its customers’ data centers. Today, the company announced that it will launch the first technical preview of Azure Stack later this week on Friday, January 29. For now, this is a pretty limited version of Microsoft’s overall vision for Azure Stack. It’ll […]