Yahoo buys Maven

Yahoo has acquired Maven Networks, an online video platform provider, to expand consumer video and advertising experiences on Yahoo and its network of video publishers across the Web, says Fox Business.

Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo acquired Maven Networks for approximately $160 million.

Maven's platform is currently used to manage, distribute and monetise online video content for over 30 major media companies, including Fox News, Sony BMG, CBS Sports, Hearst, Gannett, Scripps Networks, and the Financial Times.

Alfresco Software, an open source enterprise content management provider, has released its second global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise, reports Fox Business.

The Alfresco Open Source Barometer Survey, conducted throughout 2007 using opt-in data provided by Alfresco's 35 000 community members, shows deployments of Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux have a market share of 24% and 21%, respectively.

"We are very pleased that Ubuntu is consistently the most popular Linux platform on which to trial or implement Alfresco," commented Jane Silber, COO of Canonical UK. "Alfresco is rightly recognised as one of the best open source content management systems."

Salesforce.com is making its big move into enterprise content management with the latest release of its on-demand platform, according to ITWeek.

Salesforce Content gives a means of searching, managing and versioning unstructured data via approaches such as tagging, pushed notifications of new or changed material, popularity polling, feedback comments and other tools.

The company gained the technology underlying Salesforce Content with the acquisition last year of start-up firm, Koral.