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Press Releases are posted in date order
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - Collexis Holdings, Inc., announced today that CABI, a not-for-profit international organization specializing in scientific publishing, research and communication, has selected the company to develop a knowledge discovery application and provide semantic search solutions by instituting a Knowledge Dashboard as a pilot implementation.
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Mark Murphy Named Chief Financial Officer for Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Collexis Holdings, Inc., announced today that Mark Murphy has been named the company’s chief financial officer. With more than 30 years of public financial management expertise, Murphy will be responsible for all of Collexis’ accounting operations, including financial reporting and corporate governance, internal controls (SOX) and compliance.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Darrell W. Gunter, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Collexis Holdings, Inc., was recently elected to the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Content Division Board.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - Collexis announced today that Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU) has selected the company to develop an Advanced Expert Profiling System that will allow its students, faculty and researchers to connect via a Web interface and help maximize productivity and networking abilities for its combined student, faculty and staff population of more than 15,000.
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Collexis names Lenerl Sharp as European Director of Sales
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - Collexis today announced the appointment of Lenerl Sharp as the company’s European Director of Sales. In this position, Sharp will focus on sales of Collexis’ suite of products to the life science markets.
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Collexis Named a 2008 Codie Award Finalist by the Software & Information Industry Association
Monday, March 17, 2008 - Collexis was recently named a finalist for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) 23rd Annual Codie Awards. Established in 1986, the Codie Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - Collexis announced today website enhancements to BioMedExperts.com, the first online social network of its kind that promotes global collaborative medical research and development.
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Collexis Recognized by KMWorld as One of the 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - Collexis announced today it has been recognized in the March 2008 issue of KMWorld as one of the 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 - Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, and Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, today announced plans to join together Collexis’ Knowledge Dashboard with Thomson Scientific’s Web of Science to create a custom data mining solution for the research community.
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Collexis Subsidiary Lawriter Inc. Announces Expansion of Casemaker Legal Library
Thursday, February 7, 2008 - Lawriter, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced today that the company has acquired an additional legal library consisting of 3.5 million documents to add to Casemaker®, which provides online legal research services to lawyers in the United States.
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Collexis Holdings, Inc. acquires a leading legal publisher, Lawriter LLC
Monday, February 4, 2008 - Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced today that the company has acquired Lawriter LLC, which owns nationally acclaimed legal research service Casemaker®.
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Collexis selects Peak 10 for Managed Services Solutions
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - Peak 10, the leading independent data center operator and managed services provider, today announced that it has added Collexis to its growing and diverse customer portfolio. Peak 10 will provide Collexis with a fully managed hosted environment out of the company’s second world-class data center in Charlotte, N.C.
Read the full press release by Peak 10 here.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - Collexis announced today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the company to develop an Advanced Expert Profiling System that will allow more than 8,000 NIH researchers to connect and share their expertise via a web interface.
Read the full press release here.
Friday, January 11, 2008 - Collexis today announced the debut of BioMedExperts (www.biomedexperts.com) -- the first online social network of its kind to improve collaboration among researchers and therefore advance medical science. Collexis launched the new service with more than 1.4 million pre-generated profiles of its expected users from across 120 countries and expects to grow by another two million profiles over the next few months.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 - Dell and Collexis Holdings, Inc., plan to launch Jan. 11 BioMedExperts – an innovative social networking community that will promote collaborative medical research and development.
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Collexis Completes $2.2 Million Private Placement at Premium to Market Price of Common Stock
Thursday, January 3, 2008 - Collexis announced today that it has completed a $2.2 million private placement of restricted common stock at $0.75 per share, representing a premium to the price of the Company’s stock.
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Intel’s Senior Healthcare Strategist, Dr. Ron Ribitzky, Joins Collexis Scientific Advisory Board
Friday, December 21, 2007 - Collexis today announced that Dr. Ron Ribitzky, Senior Healthcare Strategist with Intel’s Digital Health Group, will join the Collexis Scientific Advisory Board effective January 3, 2008.
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Collexis Hires Sergio de Farias as Director of Collexis Latin America
Friday, December 21, 2007 - Collexis today announced the appointment of Sergio de Farias as Director of Collexis Latin America. In this new position, Farias will oversee the expansion of Collexis into the Latin American Market.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - Collexis announced today that it has signed more than 15 new customer contracts in the past five months, more than twice its new client business in all of 2006. Collexis has made major strides in 2007, transitioning from a company based on core platform development to one that provides a suite of products which extend the core technology into industry solutions.
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Collexis Announces $2.7 Million Private Placement - Strategic Initiatives on Track
Monday, December 17, 2007 - Collexis announced today that it has raised gross proceeds of $2.7 million through the private placement of 3.6 million shares of restricted common stock to institutional and other accredited investors at $0.75 cents a share.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 - Collexis announced today that it has formed a partnership with Altum, Inc., a national leader in grants management, to provide customized solutions to the biomedical research industry. The alliance brings together the non-profit and government markets expertise of Altum with the breakthrough search engine technologies of Collexis.
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North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) Chooses Mediator
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) members will now be able to conduct medical discovery and research online as a member benefit using Mediator, a web-based research tool powered by SyynX Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Collexis Holdings, Inc.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - Collexis announced today that it is working with the
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), a public-private partnership between industry and
three University of California campuses (Berkeley, San Francisco and Santa Cruz) to create an expansive
expert profiling system designed to promote research efficiency by facilitating cross-campus and crossdiscipline
collaborations.
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Collexis Holdings Acquires SyynX Solutions, Expands Application Portfolio
Monday, October 29, 2007 - Collexis announced today that it has acquired its long-time development partner, SyynX Solutions, a privately-held software company based in Cologne, Germany. For nearly a decade, Collexis and SyynX have collaborated on both a technical and commercial level and the transaction is designed to combine the respective strengths of each company.
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Collexis and SyynX Preview Next Generation Scientific Network
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - Collexis and their German partner, SyynX Solutions, today announced they will preview a new life sciences social networking site to representatives from global book publishing and multimedia companies at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, from Wednesday, October 10, 2007 to Friday, October 12, 2007. This online community represents the next generation in social networks.
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Technical University Delft Library Selects Collexis
Monday, October 08, 2007 - Collexis is pleased to announce that the Delft University of Technology Library, The Netherlands, selected Collexis Basic Search software to empower its TUlib Instruction program.
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Wageningen Universiteit Upgrades to Collexis High Definition Search 6.0
Friday, October 05, 2007 - Collexis is pleased to report the distinguished Wageningen Universiteit Library has just upgraded its Collexis Search software to Collexis High Definition Search 6.0. The reason for the upgrade is based on extended features and usability.
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Joint project of University of South Carolina, SC Launch! and Collexis announced
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - The University of South Carolina has signed an agreement with Collexis Inc. and SC Launch! that will create a partnership for hydrogen fuel research and make the university an international technology hub in that field.
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Collexis Announces New GM for Government Business Sector
Thursday, September 27, 2007 - Collexis recently announced that Jon Lieberman has assumed the position of General Manager for Government and Strategic Accounts for the Americas.
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Mayo Clinic to Pilot Collexis' Expert Profiling
Thursday, September 06, 2007 - Collexis has reached an agreement to launch its Expert Profiles System as a pilot project in collaboration with Mayo Clinic Libraries. Mayo Clinic joins the ranks of Johns Hopkins, University of California San Francisco, University of South Carolina and Others in Expert Profiling.
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Collexis Named Trend-Setting Product of 2007 by KMWorld
Thursday, August 23, 2007 - Collexis announced today that it has been selected by KMWorld as a Trend-Setting Product of 2007. Each year the editors of KMWorld select Trend-Setting Products from among the thousands in the knowledge management marketplace.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - Collexis announced today a case study describing the successful introduction of a knowledge and skills management system from SyynX Solutions, based on Collexis patented Fingerprint technology, will be a featured topic at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium.
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Collexis hires Darrell W. Gunter as new executive VP/Chief Marketing Officer
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - Collexis, leading developer of knowledge management (KM) and discovery software, has recently hired Darrell W. Gunter as its Executive VP/Chief Marketing Officer.
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Collexis Holdings, Inc. Appoints New Board Members - Chairman Emeritus, Carlyle Group Joins Three Former CEOs
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - Collexis announced today the appointment of four former CEOs to its board of directors. The additions are Frank C. Carlucci, Carlyle Group Chairman Emeritus and former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Mark Auerbach, former Executive Chairman of the Board of Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc., John D. Macomber, former Chairman and CEO of Celanese Corporation and John Regazzi, former CEO of Elsevier Inc.
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Collexis Selected as Knowledge Platform for the NIH
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - Following the announcement of the company’s public listing, Collexis (OTCBB: CLXS) has signed an Enterprise License Agreement and ongoing engagement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), replacing the Company’s prior license with NIH. The National Institutes of Health is the largest funder of health sciences research in the world. Over $20B a year in federal grant funding will now be analyzed by the Collexis platform. The agreement also enables all the NIH Institutes to utilize the company’s software for categorization, search, expertise identification, discovery and analysis of text-based content. Content examples include publications, grants, patents and other scientific works and information.
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Collexis Holdings, Inc. Announces OTC Listing
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced today that Collexis's shares of common stock are eligible for trading on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTC BB). Its ticker symbol is CLXS.
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Morehouse School of Medicine collaboration
Thursday, June 07, 2007 - Collexis recently entered the first phase of collaboration with Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) to develop an Expert Profiler System.
Based on the principle of fingerprinting, the resulting system will be a unique virtual knowledge directory. As a result of the new initiative, research collaborations between disciplines will be simplified and enhanced, while marketing efforts and donor relation activities will be assisted.
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Collaboration with University of South Carolina
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - Collexis today announced a collaboration with the University of South Carolina (USC) to develop a comprehensive, customized Knowledge Management Application Software Suite based on the Collexis Platform.
The Collexis/USC project will initially target Carolina’s five health sciences areas of research focus studying brain imaging, obesity, colon cancer, diabetes and stroke. The software will incorporate Collexis-branded applications that involve expert profiling, conceptual text searches and other components.
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TRG and Collexis Announce Collaboration
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - Collexis and TRG, a leader in transformative global training, today announced a partnership agreement. The agreement is to provide talent management of human capital to better ensure hiring and placement efficiency. TRG extends its learning service offerings to clients through Collexis’ knowledge management software.
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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough to use Collexis
Thursday, November 16, 2006 - Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, a leading US law firm, today announced that they will be the first US law firm to use Collexis to identify and quantify expert witnesses and testimony in pharmaceutical cases.
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Collexis and Johns Hopkins University collaborate
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - Collexis Inc., today announced a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University to develop an Expert Profiler System based on the Collexis Knowledge Discovery Platform. This project will utilize Collexis` patented Fingerprinting process which searches text for ideas & concepts, rather than key words.
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