EveryJoe » NewsAlloy http://www.everyjoe.com Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:47:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Mobispine acquires NewsAlloy http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/mobispine-acquires-newsalloy-109/ http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/mobispine-acquires-newsalloy-109/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:30:36 +0000 Juned http://www.afeedisborn.com/mobispine-acquires-newsalloy/ Post from: EveryJoe

Mobispine acquires NewsAlloy

]]> Mobile Internet aggregator Mobispine AB has acquired Web based feed reader NewsAlloy. The acquisition seems to be aimed at providing users a seamless product that can be viewed both on the mobile phones and PCs.

Acquisition is an interesting word. Often we hear mergers and acquisition. But when one hears the word acquisition it has very different meaning. Merger means the joining of two or more companies while acquisition means the purchase of one company by another.

Nothing negative really. It just implies the direction the two companies are going to take. And
Mobispine, which now has 300,000 plus active mobile users per month, will make use of NewsAlloy to drive momentum to reach its goal of reaching 10 million users.

And they do this by providing improved and easy-to-use service.

Mobispine is available as a free download for Internet-enabled mobile phone.

Other features or services offered by Mobispine include but no limited to the following:

- View Web content

- Save datatime,

- The unique feed search function makes it easy to search the feeds.

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Mobispine acquires NewsAlloy

]]> http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/mobispine-acquires-newsalloy-109/feed/ 0 Good bye NewsAlloy http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/good-bye-newsalloy-109/ http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/good-bye-newsalloy-109/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 05:02:42 +0000 Juned http://www.afeedisborn.com/good-bye-newsalloy/ Post from: EveryJoe

Good bye NewsAlloy

]]> NewsAlloy has shut down: As of April 29 it was shutting down. This is confirmed in the blog entry of the same date. Read it here. according to the final (?) blog post it seemed that the project was not attracting investors to the enterprise. Now I have never used NewsAlloy but based on their statistics there seems to be a healthy amount of interest for their site. Again, unfortunately these were not the ones who were willing to invest.

A snapshot in terms of statistics of NewsAlloy when I checked it today.

Service Stats
Users online: 3
Users registered: 10986
Users active: 438
Feeds subscribed: 9688

I am in no position to analyze what happened with NewsAlloy nor would I want to but it does point to one thing though. Despite the increase use of RSS feeds , in whatever manner or form, it is still a tough race out there. Darwinian in fact.

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Good bye NewsAlloy

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