Six Apart acquires Rojo
Rojo Networks is now owned by Six Apart after it was acquired, however the sum was undisclosed.
Rojo senior executives Chris Alden and Aaron Emigh joined the Six Apart team as executive vice president and general manager of Movable Type, and executive vice president and general manager of core technologies, respectively. Six Apart intends to sell a majority interest in Rojo’s newsreader services in the coming months.
A co-founder and CEO of Red Herring Communications, as well as founder and president of Rojo Networks, Chris Alden is a pioneer of internet publishing. As EVP and GM of Movable Type, he will now oversee its continued rapid growth as the world’s leading business blogging software. Aaron Emigh, formerly CEO of CommerceFlow and CTO of Rojo Networks, comes to Six Apart with many years experience creating highly scalable, secure technology platforms and services. As EVP and GM of core technologies at Six Apart, Aaron Emigh will oversee development of its technology foundation.
Below is some information about Six Apart which i found quite interesting.
About Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart has grown into a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. In June 2006 Six Apart introduced a preview version of Vox, a hosted personal blogging service that will be publicly available in late 2006.
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