Rob van den Braak
Quark, known from their desktop publishing software Xpress, has been acquired by private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners. The new owner wants to invest money to make Xpress more popular. Parallax is a software focused investor who, although it does not rule out other investments in this particular area, wants to put more marketing power behind Xpress to grow the number of users.
Read more about this acquisition in the press release below.
PRESS RELEASE
Quark Acquired by Parallax Capital Partners to Support Accelerated Growth
Denver, CO – 12/07/2017 – Quark Software Inc. announced today that it has been acquired by Parallax Capital Partners, LLC (Parallax), a Southern California-based software-focused private equity firm. The new owners intend to help Quark accelerate the adoption of its transformational content automation solutions through investment in organic growth and acquisitions.
Recently selected as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Content Services and a 2017 SIIA CODiE Award finalist for Best Multi-Channel Publishing Platform, Quark has quickly emerged as a global leader in content automation. Quark’s content automation solutions enable organizations to deliver business-critical content to any format and any channel – mobile, print, Web, and more. At the same time Quark has reinvigorated its QuarkXPress software business, consistently putting customers first and out-innovating its competitors.
“Quark is having a transformational impact within a wide range of industries, completely redefining how organizations create, manage, publish and deliver business-critical content,” said James Hale, Managing Partner at Parallax. “This is a company with outstanding talent and leadership, innovative technology and acclaimed customer base. Parallax is looking forward to bringing its experience and expertise to help Quark take its enterprise content automation business to the next level.”
“I couldn’t be more proud of our employees and customers in reaching this milestone,” said Quark President and CEO Ray Schiavone. “Quark has achieved what so many established brands fail to, which is to reinvent our company in the face of insurmountable odds. Through content automation, today Quark enables some of the world’s largest organizations to transform customer experience, reduce time-to-market, improve compliance, and reduce costs. In Parallax we believe we have a partner that shares this vision for organizations to realize the true value of their content.”
Lees verder....Quark, de makers van desktop publishing software Xpress, is gekocht door private equity firma Parallax Capital Partners. De nieuwe eigenaar wil geld uittrekken om Xpress weer op de kaart te zetten. Parallax is een software-focused investeerder die nieuwe overnames op dit gebied niet uitsluit, maar vooral met meer marketing power het aantal Xpress gebruikers wil laten groeien.
Lees meer over deze overname in onderstaand persbericht.
PERSBERICHT
Quark Acquired by Parallax Capital Partners to Support Accelerated Growth
Denver, CO – 12/07/2017 – Quark Software Inc. announced today that it has been acquired by Parallax Capital Partners, LLC (Parallax), a Southern California-based software-focused private equity firm. The new owners intend to help Quark accelerate the adoption of its transformational content automation solutions through investment in organic growth and acquisitions.
Recently selected as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Content Services and a 2017 SIIA CODiE Award finalist for Best Multi-Channel Publishing Platform, Quark has quickly emerged as a global leader in content automation. Quark’s content automation solutions enable organizations to deliver business-critical content to any format and any channel – mobile, print, Web, and more. At the same time Quark has reinvigorated its QuarkXPress software business, consistently putting customers first and out-innovating its competitors.
“Quark is having a transformational impact within a wide range of industries, completely redefining how organizations create, manage, publish and deliver business-critical content,” said James Hale, Managing Partner at Parallax. “This is a company with outstanding talent and leadership, innovative technology and acclaimed customer base. Parallax is looking forward to bringing its experience and expertise to help Quark take its enterprise content automation business to the next level.”
“I couldn’t be more proud of our employees and customers in reaching this milestone,” said Quark President and CEO Ray Schiavone. “Quark has achieved what so many established brands fail to, which is to reinvent our company in the face of insurmountable odds. Through content automation, today Quark enables some of the world’s largest organizations to transform customer experience, reduce time-to-market, improve compliance, and reduce costs. In Parallax we believe we have a partner that shares this vision for organizations to realize the true value of their content.”
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Contentmarketingbureau Zandbeek en citymarketingorganisatie Eindhoven365 hebben gescoord bij de Amerikaanse Content Marketing Awards. Hun internationale influencercampagne AnOther City Trip won in de categorie ‘Best Use of Instagram/Snapchat in Content Marketing’. De Content Marketing Awards is wereldwijd het grootste awardfestival binnen het vakgebied en wordt georganiseerd door het Content Marketing Institute. Dit jaar werden ruim 1100 cases ingezonden.
Neurologische studies hebben aangetoond dat gedrukte informatie niet alleen krachtiger overkomt dan beeldscherm informatie maar dat het de lezer ook slimmer maakt. Dat laatste komt omdat mensen gedrukte informatie beter en intensiever tot zich nemen. Ook de emotionele reactie op gedrukte informatie is krachtiger dan die van digitale informatie. Leer meer over deze opmerkelijke feiten in de publicatie van Paul Simpson in Print Power issue 13 via deze link.
The announcement for the newest edition of fashion magazine Elle (Netherlands) has an interesting explanation about why the magazine appears in print.“Print is changing, but still irreplaceable. It is the best place to show a great fashion series, for text, illustrations and photography to melt together in an exciting layout and to talk about how certain trends evolve.”
Elle asked young people why Elle should be published in print and everyone gave the same kind of answer. Swiping, scrolling and clicking is good, but the magic of paper is in the fact that is produced much more slowly and is easier to keep. They like the fact that paper magazines have been made with love and care. That the ideas behind it, the atmosphere and the pieces of clothing are easier to appreciate.
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Neurological studies have proven that printed information is not only more powerful than screen information, it also makes the reader smarter. This is because people are able to absorb printed information better. The emotional reaction to printed information is stronger than to digital information. Learn more about these remarkable facts in the publication by Paul Simpson in Print Power issue 13 via this link.
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There is an unstoppable trends among millennials, people born between 1980 and 2000. The increasingly important group of people is changing their preference for the consumption of news to digital publications. At least 32% of them prefer digital. The solution for content disseminators is multi channel publishing. Read Agfa´s Mobile Snippet about how to do this, or download the white paper about how the change from paper to digital is working out via this link.
Carnegie Mellon University´s Future Interfaces Group has come up with a way to make a touchscreen from your desk. With hardware consisting of a mini projector and a 3D camera which can be screwed into your desklamp Desktopography miraculously changes your desk into an interactive workspace where you can manipulate objects. It is a cheap alternative for the Microsoft Surface table and picks up where the Xerox PARC Digital Desk in 1990 already showed what is possible with this technology. Contrary to the Digital Desk you do not need a heavy computer, the Desktopography software works with a standard computer.
Watch this interesting invention on our video page via this link.
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De Future Interfaces Group van de Carnegie Mellon University heeft een manier bedacht om van je hele bureau een groot touchscreen te maken. Met hardware bestaande uit een mini-projector en 3d camera die simpel in een bureaulamp geschroefd kan worden tovert Desktopography het bureau om in een interactief werkblad waarop voorwerpen gemanipuleerd kunnen worden. Het is een goedkoop alternatief voor de Microsoft Surface tafel en borduurt voort op de Xerox PARC Digital Desk die begin 1990 al aangaf wat er met deze techniek mogelijk is. In tegenstelling tot de Digital Desk heb je geen zware computer nodig voor Desktopography, de software werkt op een gewone computer.
Laurel Brunner´s Verdigris Blog delves into the question of digital media being better or worse for the environment. The ISO 20294 norm which is expected to be ready before long can measure this, according to Laurel. Read her blog about this very important issue on our articles page via this link.Lees verder....
In haar Verdigris Blog gaat Laurel Brunner in op de vraag of digitale media beter of slechter is voor het milieu dan gedrukte media. De ISO 20294 norm die binnenkort gereed is kan daar volgens Laurel een meetbaar inzicht in geven.
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