PTC Acquires Synapsis Technology

NEEDHAM, Mass. - December 10, 2008 - PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company®, today announced it has acquired the business assets of Synapsis Technology, Inc., based in Spring House, Pa. Synapsis provides environmental regulatory compliance solutions to leading customers including Motorola, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Visteon, Delphi, IBM, GE, Beckman Coulter, Teradyne and Cisco. The [.. more ..]

ProQuest and Google Partnership Will Unlock Newspaper Content

ANN ARBOR, Mich., September 8, 2008 — ProQuest has formed a partnership with Google that has the potential to bring millions of pages of newspaper content to the open web. The program allows web access to archives of both large and small newspapers. Without this initiative, these newspapers might never be digitized.

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Nikon Precision Inc. Selects PTC Arbortext To Streamline Product Information Delivery

NEEDHAM, MA - September 2, 2008 - PTC (Nasdaq:PMTC),the Product Development Company®, today announced that Nikon Precision Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nikon Corporation and a leading provider of precision photolithography equipment, has selected PTC’s Arbortext Product Information Delivery software to streamline the editing and publishing processes of its service manuals. Using Arbortext, Nikon [.. more ..]

Crovitz Joins ProQuest Board

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 21, 2008 — Veteran media executive L. Gordon Crovitz has joined the Board of Directors of ProQuest, a world leader in information publishing and a Cambridge Information Group (CIG) business. Mr. Crovitz has more than 25 years of U.S. and global business operations experience at Dow Jones, including his role as [.. more ..]

ProQuest Acquires Dialog

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 1, 2008 — ProQuest has closed on its agreement to acquire the Dialog® business from ThomsonReuters and named industry veteran Suzanne BeDell as Dialog General Manager. Ms. BeDell will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn.

“I am thrilled about what this means both to ProQuest and Dialog and to the customers we [.. more ..]

ProQuest Creates Single-point Access to Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 28, 2008 - ProQuest has published the first digital archive of the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, the only reliable finding aid to the vast published output of the U.S. government. This online, searchable version of the Monthly Catalog, is the Government Printing Office’s (GPO) authorized bibliography of printed documents [.. more ..]

CRKN Partners with ProQuest to bring Periodicals Archive Online

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 19, 2008 — The acclaimed Periodicals Archive Online will be available to 67 key research institutions in Canada through an arrangement between Micromedia ProQuest and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). Periodicals Archive Online is renowned for its access to international, scholarly literature from 37 subject areas in the arts, humanities [.. more ..]

ProQuest to Acquire Thompson Reuters Dialog

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 12, 2008 — ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has signed an agreement under which ProQuest would acquire the Thomson Reuters Dialog® business. The transaction is expected to close pending a successful completion of the formal consultation period and other customary closing conditions. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.

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Launch of New ProQuest Obituaries Search Tools Bring Researchers Closer to Their Ancestors

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 29, 2008 — ProQuest introduces two new major enhancements for ProQuest® Obituaries, indexed expanded Name Search and enhanced Search Results Display. Both features allow for greater content discovery, as users can more easily search through indexed names and locations as well as the text of the obituary itself.
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Five ProQuest Resources are Finalists for SIIA CODiE Awards

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 2, 2008 — Five ProQuest products have been selected as finalists in the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 22nd annual CODiE Awards. Selected products include:
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences
18th, 19th, and 20th Century Parliamentary Papers
CultureGrams
SIRS Researcher
Environmental Impact Statements: Full-Text & Digests

“Competition is tough this year and that makes selection as a [.. more ..]

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