Waltham, MA-based Black Duck Software, a provider of platforms for helping software makers track the open-source and third party code behind their products, announced Tuesday that it had acquired the assets of SpikeSource, a maker of software and services for identifying application components and assessing compliance. The firm did not disclose how much it paid for SpikeSource, but said that the software will integrate with its product suite, using binary scanning to help developers understand what has gone into their applications. Black Duck also acquired open source directory Ohloh.net in October.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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