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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Acquia Drupal expands product suite with purchases Cyrve, growing venture solutions

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acquia

Acquia, a commercial open source software company that provides products, services and technical support for Drupal social publishing system, expanding its product portfolio with the acquisition of Cyrve, Drupal migration service providers and growing venture solutions provider of Drupal.

Conditions for the acquisition were not disclosed.

Acquia today introduces transaction Acquia migration service and security service of Acquia for Drupal site owners of the enterprise.

The first includes a set of software modules and best practices to help organizations migrate content from social software systems such as WordPress or SharePoint and Office obsolete Drupal Web content.

For more perspective on the acquisition of Cyrve, Moshe Weitzman check co-founder blog.

The security service of Acquia practice includes tools and services for the Drupal site security assessments and implement security policies based on best practices.

Acquia, which was co-founded by Dries Buytaert, original creator and project lead of Drupal, an open source project, recently raised $ 15 million planned $ 20 million shares of the company's total financing round, more than $ 38 million.

Acquia supporters include North Bridge venture partners, Sigma partners, Tenaya capital, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.


Acquia is a privately held, rapidly growing company that supports enterprises that use free open-source content-management system and Drupal. Co-founder of the creator of Drupal in 2007, Acquia provides customers with software ...

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Justin.TV video game portal TV is growing fast Twitch.

Leena Rao is currently working as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school of the Medill School of journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007 she helped lead efforts for advocacy and community relationships Congressman Carloyn Maloney in New York. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 where it was ... ? Read More

twitch-tv

In June, Justin.TV started TwitchTV, the portal live streaming video games community for gamers. It was an interesting move considering video companies do not really consider any verticals so far. But it looks like step start to bear fruit. Twitch. TV is growing like gangbusters and posted 8 million unique visitors worldwide in July.

Twitch .TV saw 1 billion minutes of viewing in July, with doubling of traffic. Of course this is far from YouTube billions views a day. But recently the vertical niche, it's still impressive.

TwitchTV for the background of various games and competitions especially platforms with top players, tournaments, and comments. The platform aims to be a one-stop-shop for live video for "eSports" Justin.TV said is associated with the competitive video games.

Twitch. TV also recently debuted game developer partner program and is currently 500 all partners through the program.

The platform also focused on the massive success of Machinima, another site online video games, which is witnessing a major traction among gamers.


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