Customer is a New York-based technology company that was launched by 29 major media companies, including the Associated Press, New York Times, Hearst, Axel Springer, Washington Post, McClatchy, and Advance Publications. The company is creating a global marketplace for news content and data by serving as an intermediary between content creators and enterprise content consumers. There are currently more than 1,000 content creators, mainly from the newspaper industry, signed up as participants. We expect to expand into other content verticals, such as magazines, pure-play digital, TV, and radio, in the coming years. Our customers can purchase licenses to use this content in a variety of ways, as well as fulfillment services for content and data. 

The systems that we develop are mainly based on .Net technologies, with the core data warehouse running on an IBM Netezza appliance. We rely on Amazon AWS for front-end ingestion and Rackspace and Microsoft Azure to handle data processing and storage. The News Registry portal is currently built on Microsoft SharePoint and SilverLight technologies, with plans to migrate to an HTML5/CSS3 solution.