Fast Search & Transfer ASA has developed an enterprise search system that it says improves on the benefits of traditional data warehouses while cutting down on implementation time, cost and complexity ...

What is the news here? Microsoft plans to acquire Norwegian enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer for $1.23 billion in order to broaden its enterprise search portfolio. Why did Microsoft ...

Microsoft took a big jump into the search software market last April when it acquired Fast Search & Transfer, the Norway-based developer of the Fast Search ESP search technology, for $1.2 billion.

Fast Search & Transfer on Tuesday released its next-generation search platform, which lets corporations navigate the Web and internal data from one starting point. Called Fast ESP, the system lets ...

Fast Search & Transfer ASA will launch an upgraded version of its Alltheweb.com search engine on Monday that offers near-real-time searches in more than 3,000 online news sources. Entering “anthrax,” ...

Enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer ASA has created a program to snatch clients away from its competitor Verity Inc., which is in the process of being acquired by Autonomy Corp. PLC. The ...

Fast Search & Transfer Tuesday is expected to announce it has developed an enterprise search application tailored to professional and corporate electronic publishers. The application, called Fast ...

Well it didn't take long for news to hit of the first major search-related acquisition of the year. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it was buying FAST Search & Transfer for $1.2 billion.

Two months after making its own search technology a commodity, Microsoft raised the ante today in the enterprise search space by going out and buying Fast Search & Transfer, an Oslo, Norway-based ...

OSLO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Norwegian search software firm Fast Search & Transfer , which Microsoft , has offered to buy for $1.2 billion, said on Monday it would restate its 2006 accounts which may also ...

OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer for 19 crowns per share, valuing the company at about $1.2 billion, the ...