CitySearch purchased technology at a time when CitySearch was putting together its global market strategy.

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Garden & Gun

StarMedia

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TimeOut

Metrobeat

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CitySearch aquired the widely known and locally touted Metrobeat in 1996 as a way to expand its online city listings guide to New York City. Along with the purchase of Metrobeat CitySearch aquired innovations created by Software & Design. These technologies supported the early days of CitySearch New York and were used to improve technology in the other CitySearch markets.

After acquiring Metrobeat, CitySearch contracted to help architect and design the next generation of in-house content management and editorial tools to be distributed to editorial staffs across the CitySearch enterprise.

Software & Design's role as a systems integrator was also critical to CitySearch's success in New York. The team designed, implemented and maintained a data bridge between two separate systems until CitySearch had time to ramp up its internal resources and software development to provide the next generation of editorial tools and web publication software.