The best RSS reader for Mac OSX just got bought...
NewsGator - News Archive
NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS platform company, announced today that it has acquired NetNewsWire, the leading RSS reader for Mac OS X. NewsGator also announced that NetNewsWire will integrate tightly with the NewsGator Online synchronization platform. Brent Simmons, the creator of NetNewsWire, will be joining the NewsGator team as a product architect.The NewsGator Online platform provides a highly integrated and synchronized reading/viewing experience across multiple devices, including the web, mobile phones, televisions, and e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook. The recent FeedDemon acquisition extended this to the Windows desktop, and now with NetNewsWire, the premier RSS reader for Mac OS X, the platform extends to the Mac desktop as well.
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[Greg Reinacker, founder and CTO of NewsGator] added, “Brent has done a great job building this product – we’re not only excited to add NetNewsWire to our portfolio, but also to incorporate Brent’s excellent design and development skills to our team. We’re excited about the Mac platform, and we will continue to invest significantly in this area.”
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As part of this deal, existing NetNewsWire full-version customers will receive a free 2-year paid subscription to NewsGator Online. More details will be announced with the next release of NetNewsWire, which will include advanced features and functions from NewsGator Online.
Congratulations to Brent Simmons and his team. No wonder he was coy about the next release on the NNW mailing list....
Tags: Apple, /NetNewsWire, /software
