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NewsGator Chomps Up NetNewsWire

By Nate Mook | Published October 6, 2005, 9:05 AM

Adding to its repertoire of RSS software, NewsGator this week purchased popular Macintosh feed reader NetNewsWire. The company had previously bought Windows-based RSS tool FeedDemon in May. The acquisition means NetNewsWire will add NewsGator syndication features for sharing and syncing RSS feeds.

"Many of our online customers who are Mac users have asked if we had plans to extend our product platform to the Mac desktop," NewsGator CTO Greg Reinacker said in a statement. "NetNewsWire is the dominant RSS application for the Mac OS, and was an obvious choice for us."

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zridling
Oct 6, 2005 - 4:12 PM

NewsGator has to be the stupidest idea for making money off of suckers I have ever seen. Many RSS ags and readers now sync your feeds through offline servers. Yet you're going to pay for something offered totally free by every website that provides a feed. Unbelievable.

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