NewsGator has announced the acquisition of enterprise social computing company Tomoye. The deal lends more resources to NewsGator's research and development team and increases NewsGator's share in the government market by adding Tomoye's 150,000-user U.S. Army social nework. Tomoye's other customers include the Federal Reserve Bank, Defense Acquisition University, the United States Air Force, Jacobs Engineering, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Agency for International Development and more. NewsGator's paid users now number 2.1 million.

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