Yahoo acquires Associated Content

Yahoo has agreed to buy out content management company Associated Content, reports PC World.

The acquisition, expected to close in the third quarter of this year, is intended to improve Yahoo's online ad revenue growth by driving traffic to its search engine and Web sites.

Yahoo rival AOL has also been busy over the past year, beefing up its ability to create original content - a strategy AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has put in place to jump-start the newly independent company's revenue engine.

SAP has signed a deal with tech giant EMC to resell EMC's Documentum enterprise content management system (CMS), says eWeek.

"SAP doesn't have their own content management offering," explains Whitney Tidmarsh, chief marketing officer of EMC Information Intelligence Group. "They've traditionally partnered with other vendors in the market, especially in archiving.”

However, SAP says the move will have little or no effect on EMC's long-time relationship with Oracle; SAP's sworn marketplace enemy.

Joomla has released beta version 1.6 of its open source CMS, states H Online.

Joomla is used for publishing personal home pages as well as building corporate Web sites and intranet in multiple languages.

The beta update features an access control system that will give site administrators finer grained control over who can view and manage content within the CMS.