April 2010 Archives

April 29, 2010

Software Updates, 30 April 2010

Recently announced software updates: ClarabridgeEnterprise 4.1: Sentiment intensity, data visualization and reports, wizards and templates, enhanced anaphora support, increased online training. GnipFacebook Search API. NotecaSidebar filtering controls, improved Twitter monitoring, support for multiple Twitter accounts, manual deletion of results. PostRankEntity...

April 28, 2010

Attensity Group Acquires Biz360

Attensity Group has announced its acquisition of Biz360. Biz360 Community Insights will be known as Attensity360. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release...

April 27, 2010

New Papers, 27 April 2010

Recently released research and white papers: A new way to measure word-of-mouth marketing, McKinsey Baromètre ECHO : les français face aux médias sociaux, Scanblog 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, Social Media Examiner...

April 27, 2010

Kantar Consolidates Millward Brown Precis, Kantar Media

Kantar Media has announced the merger of Millward Brown Precis Europe/US within Kantar Media’s Intelligence Sector, effective 1 May. Millward Brown will continue to represent Precis in Australia. press release...

April 23, 2010

Wikio Expands into SMA with Neotia Acquisition

Wikio has entered the SMA market with the acquisition of Neotia. The company has been building its social media marketing capabilities with the earlier acquisitions of ebuzzing and PromoDigital. via Comment ça marche SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release (PDF) Wikio...

April 23, 2010

Networked Insights Closes $5 Million Round

Networked Insights announced that they have received $5 million in an investment round led by Kegonsa Capital Partners. The investment brings the company's total capital raised to $9 million. press release...

April 22, 2010

Software Updates, 23 April 2010

Recently announced software updates: BuzzStreamLink tracking and management refinements. CisionIntegration of social media content from Radian6 in CisionPoint. SysomosFacebook Graph API integration....

April 16, 2010

NetBase Announces Consumer Insight Tool

NetBase announced the planned April 30 release of ConsumerBase, its platform for generating customer insights from social media content and companies' internal data. blog post...

April 16, 2010

J.D. Power Builds SMA for Auto Industry

J.D. Power and Associates launched J.D. Power Auto Intelligence Monitor, an industry-specific social media analysis platform for the auto industry. The system's dashboard is updated daily and includes a two-year data archive. Analysis is tailored to the industry with a...

April 16, 2010

Nielsen Adds Customer Reviews from Bazaarvoice

Bazaarvoice and The Nielsen Company announced an alliance that will allow clients to incorporate customer reviews from sites powered by Bazaarvoice into Nielsen My BuzzMetrics. Customer review data will also be combined with other Nielsen data sources in the company's...

April 16, 2010

Software Updates, 16 April 2010

Recently announced software updates: BrandsEyeTime zone support, author report, linked domains report. MoreoverSocial Media Metabase: new user interface. Spiral16URL search, bulk reporting options. uberVUNew mentions feature; Google Buzz, MySpace and Facebook public pages coverage....

April 13, 2010

New Papers, 13 April 2010

Recently released research and white papers: SXSW Buzz Report, Biz360 Observatoire de l'autombile verte, Linkfluence Netnography: The Marketer's Secret Weapon—How Social Media Understanding Drives Innovation, NetBase If Not Now, When? Socializing the Enterprise (PDF), Radian6...

April 8, 2010

Software Updates, 9 April 2010

Recently announced software updates: BuzzStreamPerformance improvements, many feature updates....

April 6, 2010

Clarabridge Launches Self Service Text Analytics

Clarabridge announced the general availability of Clarabridge Self Service, a hosted text analytics service that works on uploaded files in Microsoft Excel formats (xls or xlsx). Clarabridge will process up to 1,000 verbatims per month for free; additional analysis is...

April 5, 2010

Crimson Hexagon Completes $2 Million Funding Round

Crimson Hexagon announced that it has filled a $2M Series A-2 funding round . Golden Seeds led the round that includes Beacon Angels, New York Angels, Angel Investor Forum and Zelkova Ventures. Also, Scott Centurino has replaced co-founder Candace Fleming...

April 3, 2010

Software Updates, 2 April 2010

Recently announced software updates: BuzzdetectorManual source addition and analysis. WhitevectorAutomated PDF reports via email, Facebook and Twitter coverage, Buzzwords chart....