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title: "Acquisition Rumors – Newsgator and Moreover"
date: 2005-09-26
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Acquisition Rumors – Newsgator and Moreover

[NewsGator Technologies](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://www.newsgator.com/) will be announcing “a MAJOR acquisition” at the Web 2.0 Conference on October 5-7. Hmmm, I wonder who it is. Looking at my [RSS Space](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002818.php)[spreadsheet](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://readwriteweb.jot.com/WikiHome), Newsgator is one of the leading vendors in the Reader Services category. They also have a presence in the Search space.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they acquire a lesser but still bright light in the Reader Services category – say, del.icio.us or NetNewsWire.

But as I said, Newsgator is dabbling in search – both indexing and white label. So if anything I’d probably lay my bets on a search-related acquisition. Perhaps [Feedster](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://www.feedster.com/) – Scott Rafer recently left Feedster for [more mobile](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://rafer.wirelessink.com/) pastures. Or maybe even [Technorati](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://www.technorati.com/)!

In another acquisition rumor, [SVW reports](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/09/news_moreover_p_1.php) that Moreover will be bought by “a much larger multi-national company”. [PaidContent.org says](https://web.archive.org/web/20060103202458/http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2005_09_26.shtml#051545) it will be “a Silicon Valley-based public company (NOT a media company).”

The safe bet would be Microsoft because of their existing relationship with Moreover. But they’re not SV-based. Hmmmm.

Let the speculation begin! What’s your guess?

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/acquisition_rum.php))*