LexisNexis Acquires Moreover Technologies

Global News

20
Oct
2014

Editor

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced that it has acquired Moreover Technologies, Inc., a leading global content delivery service and provider of consolidated current awareness and media management solutions. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

News monitoring and distribution is a large and growing, global market segment. It offers corporations, law firms and government institutions content and analytical tools to aggregate, monitor and analyse large volumes of news, legal and social media data to help them understand key market trends. It also highlights how their organisations are perceived, the actions of competitors and suppliers, changes to political, legal and regulatory landscape, and other events that could impact them or their clients.

“This is a very exciting announcement for LexisNexis, Moreover, and our customers. Up to now, there has not been a singular resource to comprehensively gather, analyse and share all the information needed to track current events that impact a business,” said Tom Ogburn, managing director, Global Business Insight Solutions at LexisNexis. “With Moreover, there will be a new, state-of-the-art solution from LexisNexis that provides access to an unmatched, comprehensive suite of content, via an easy-to-use interface with tools to analyse and deliver information in multiple ways across an organisation.”

Moreover is a leading, media management company with a strong emphasis on providing web, social media and broadcast content. Its Newsdesk product offers customers a comprehensive media monitoring, current awareness and content rights management platform.  In addition, Moreover offers content to customers and partners through Metabase and Search Engine Toolkit, which are application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable customers to integrate Moreover content into their systems, products and workflows. Together, these Moreover solutions deliver nearly 4m articles daily from 100 countries and in 75 languages.