Meltwater Group
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Meltwater Group is a Software as a Service
(SaaS) company founded in Oslo
, Norway
in 2001 based on research originally funded by the Norwegian Computing Center
. The founder and CEO, Jørn Lyseggen
, has also founded a number of other startups. Since 2001, it has added offices in Europe
, North America
, Asia
/Pacific, Australia
, and Africa
.
Now headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers Software as a Service products in a variety of market verticals. The company employs more than 700 people and has more than 19,000 clients internationally.
In 2011, the company acquired JitterJam and IceRocket
, and incorporated their technology into Meltwater Buzz.
The Meltwater Foundation, a non-profit branch of the company, provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young African students at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology
(MEST) in Ghana
.
(NLA) to the UK Copyright Tribunal after the NLA introduced a licence covering aggregator which crawls sites and offers paid for services based on these copies. The case is due to be heard in February 2011.
In mid-March 2010, in an interim jurisdiction question the Copyright Tribunal ruled in favor of Meltwater and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA). The NLA was ordered to pay the costs of the suit. The Times Online – not part of the NLA licence – has separately started to block Meltwater's web crawler from its site.
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
(SaaS) company founded in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
in 2001 based on research originally funded by the Norwegian Computing Center
Norwegian Computing Center
Norwegian Computing Center is a private, independent, non-profit research foundation founded in 1952. NR carries out contract research and development in the areas of computing and quantitative methods for a broad range of industrial, commercial and public service organisations in the national...
. The founder and CEO, Jørn Lyseggen
Jørn Lyseggen
Jørn Lyseggen is a Norwegian entrepreneur, patent inventor and the current CEO of Meltwater Group. He was born in Korea....
, has also founded a number of other startups. Since 2001, it has added offices in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
/Pacific, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, and Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
.
Now headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers Software as a Service products in a variety of market verticals. The company employs more than 700 people and has more than 19,000 clients internationally.
In 2011, the company acquired JitterJam and IceRocket
IceRocket
IceRocket is an Internet search engine which specializes in real-time search. Based in Dallas, Texas, it launched in 2004 hoping to market itself solely through word of mouth....
, and incorporated their technology into Meltwater Buzz.
The Meltwater Foundation, a non-profit branch of the company, provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young African students at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology was established in Accra, Ghana in 2008, by Meltwater Group and its non-profit Meltwater Foundation. The school trains young Africans to become software entrepreneurs through a two-year curriculum...
(MEST) in Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
.
Products
- Meltwater News, formerly known as Magenta News, is an online media intelligence service which searches news sources for keywords of relevance to its business customers.
- Meltwater Buzz is a social media measurementSocial media measurementSocial media measurement refers to the tracking of various social media content such as blogs, wikis, micro-blogs, social networking sites, video/photo sharing websites, forums, message boards, and user-generated content in general as a way for marketers to determine the volume and sentiment around...
tool for tracking and analysis of user-generated content on the web. - Meltwater Drive is a cloud computingCloud computingCloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
tool for collaboration, file sharingFile sharingFile sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia , documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways...
, project management and file backup of computer documents. - Meltwater Talent is a recruitment management software that automates the recruitment process for HRHuman resourcesHuman resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...
professionals. - Meltwater Press is a web-based media contact database that uses Natural Language ProcessingNatural language processingNatural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
technology to connect journalists with their most relevant covered topics. It can be used to find journalists related to an industry topic, and distribute company news to chosen journalists. - Meltwater Reach is a Search Engine MarketingSearch engine marketingSearch engine marketing, , is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion...
solution that automates online advertisingOnline advertisingOnline advertising is a form of promotion that uses the Internet and World Wide Web to deliver marketing messages to attract customers. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads on search engine results pages, banner ads, blogs, Rich Media Ads, Social network advertising, interstitial...
campaigns.
Non-profit
- Meltwater Foundation is Meltwater’s non-profit arm. It funds the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of TechnologyMeltwater Entrepreneurial School of TechnologyMeltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology was established in Accra, Ghana in 2008, by Meltwater Group and its non-profit Meltwater Foundation. The school trains young Africans to become software entrepreneurs through a two-year curriculum...
(MEST), a two-year entrepreneurial training program in GhanaGhanaGhana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
, AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
.
Aggregation lawsuit
Meltwater referred the UK Newspaper Licensing AgencyNewspaper Licensing Agency
The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited is the collecting society for UK newspapers, a privately owned limited company...
(NLA) to the UK Copyright Tribunal after the NLA introduced a licence covering aggregator which crawls sites and offers paid for services based on these copies. The case is due to be heard in February 2011.
In mid-March 2010, in an interim jurisdiction question the Copyright Tribunal ruled in favor of Meltwater and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA). The NLA was ordered to pay the costs of the suit. The Times Online – not part of the NLA licence – has separately started to block Meltwater's web crawler from its site.