monitoring founded 1998 headquarters 1902 campus commons dr suite 400 reston virginia 20191 1563 united states parent lexisnexis website www.moreover.com moreover technologies generally known as moreover is a provider of business intelligence and news aggregation products for enterprises also offering free news feeds for consumers . moreover was founded in 1998 by nick denton david galbraith and angus bankes 1 receiving funding from advance publications atlas venture reuters venture capital and dawntreader ventures 2 with offices in both london and san francisco . contents 1 history 2 currently 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit moreover became involved with developing the really simple syndication rss 1.0 standard in 2000 3 and was later acquired by verisign in 2005 for 30m . 4 as part of verisign the moreover business unit was renamed as real time publisher services being paired with weblogs.com to create a platform for publishers and bloggers to track and distribute content . in may 2009 moreover was sold to a private investor group led by paul farrell 5 the sale included weblogs.com with the ping server becoming wholly owned and run by moreover . in october 2014 moreover was acquired by lexisnexis 6 currently edit moreover currently powers the ask.com news search 7 and bbc newstracker 8 having global headquarters in reston virginia and further offices in dayton new york san francisco seattle and london . see also edit ask bignews bbc news online references edit guardian.co.uk 9 march 2008 . the brit dishing the dirt on america he was intrigued by sites that linked to information on others and wanted to create a way of aggregating news headlines from across the old media sites that were going on to the web . he turned to his old schoolfriend dave galbraith who though now trained as an architect had been writing software for years . together with another mutual schoolfriend angus bankes they would come up with the software to support moreover.com . pr newswire 21 september 2004 . pluck selects moreover technologies for aggregated rss news solutions moreover is a privately held company with offices in london and san francisco with funding led by advance publications atlas venture reuters venture capital and dawntreader ventures . rss dev working group 9 december 2000 . rdf site summary rss 1.0 the register 18 october 2005 . verisign aggregates moreover moreover company blog 13 may 2009 . moreover 3.0 we divest out of verisign moreover joins lexisnexis . pr newswire 22 july 2002 . moreover technologies provides real time news and information to ask jeeves bbc news . bbc links to other news sites external links edit moreover technologies moreover technologies company blog feeddirect retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title moreover technologies & oldid 735173447 categories business intelligenceinternet properties established in 1998american news websitesnews aggregators navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 august 2016 at 01 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view