Continuing its push into international business markets SixApart along with Bokee, the leading blog hosting company in China, will partner to make it easy for Chinese businesses to communicate with their customers and for employees to communicate internally through blogging. Under an agreement announced today, Bokee will localize and distribute Movable Type, Six Apart’s leading web publishing platform, to Chinese businesses and educational institutions, beginning in the early second quarter of this year.
According to Niall Kennedy the former Technorati developer Bokee laid off reportedly laid off about 1/3 of its workforce the week before Christmas and plans a billion dollar IPO within the year if they are not first bought by Yahoo! or Google for a rumored $200 million.
via Business Wire
Originally posted on March 20, 2006 @ 9:12 pm