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Six Apart Uses UForge to Deliver Moveable Type to Cloud Environments
Six Apart has been a pioneer in social publishing platforms, going back to when the terms "hosted" or "online" were dominant. Now it’s becoming more cloud-ready.
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Infocom Takes Over Movable Type and Six Apart Brand
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Movable Type's future lies in Japan. Today it was announced that Six Apart KK (SAKK), a subsidiary of SAY Media, has been acquired by a Japanese IT company called Infocom.
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Six Apart Faces Troubled Times, Asks for US$ 2M Loan
Once upon a time, Six Apart (news, site) played in the big leagues. The blog software provider raised over US $22 million, landed the cover of an issue of Fortune, bought and sold companies for profit, etc.
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Six Apart Update: Movable Type's Future Lies in Japan
Following the recent acquisition of Six Apart many speculated -- often pessimistically -- about the future of the once ground-breaking Movable Type (MT) software. We sat down with the current MT product manager for a chat about the details. Here's what we learned.
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Six Apart Acquired. Farewell Movable Type?
Say hello to SAY Media, Inc. The new company is a combination of media advertising player VideoEgg and Moveable Type's maker, Six Apart. The acquisition and new company formation have just been announced. Company reps assert that the combined media network now reaches more than 345 million unique visitors.
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Six Apart Kills Vox, Continues to Deny Merger
There's no easy way to say it: Vox, Six Apart's (news, site ) blogging/social network platform, is dead. In yet another move that screams of the merger Six Apart continues to deny, Vox will be officially kaput on September 30th.
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Six Apart May Be Brewing a Deal in Japan
Six Apart (news, site ), the blogging pioneer that hasn't garnered much attention in over a year, started making headlines again last week. Though executives are reportedly denying any goings-on, rumor has it that the company is looking to make a deal in the Japanese market.
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Anil Dashes, From Six Apart to GOV Social Media
Ladies and gentleman, Anil Dash has officially left the building. As the very first employee at blogging and social media software maker, Six Apart (news, site ) and a seasoned blogger himself (10 years!), Dash has been intrinsic to the company as well as the online writing discussion
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Salesforce.com Adds $575 million in Private Funding, What to Spend it On?
Earlier this week, Salesforce.com (news, site ) announced the closing of private placement funding in the amount of US$ 575 million. It comes in the form of convertible senior notes due 2015. Salesforce.
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Movable Type 5 Released, Adds Versioning, Better Management
We’re about a week into the New Year, but don’t cork up those bottles just yet. At long last, Six Apart (news, site) has released Movable Type 5. The new version is being called “a great milestone in the 8 years of Movable Type history” by
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Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in November 2009
Welcome to the November 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days. If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at [email protected] with a pointer to who we
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TypePad: Now Open for Developers and Microbloggers
Six Apart (news, site) is all over the place lately. In addition to Movable Type integrating Zemanta, the company has two new introductions to make. TypePad Cloud Platform is a new tool that enables developers to build social applications via the system's API.
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Movable Type Integrates Zemanta, Blogging Gets Easier
As many of us wait patiently for the third beta of Movable Type (news, site) version 5, the team behind the popular Web CMS continues to tide us over with other updates.
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Movable Type 4.31, GET!
Six Apart (news, site) has kept their word and released a patch for the aforementioned bug in Movable Type 4.3. The new release, version 4.31, fixes some funk associated with custom fields and entry assets.
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