Apture was a service that allowed publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate multimedia into a dynamic layer above their pages.
[1] Apture was used by several large organizations and publishers including The Washington Post, The Economist, Scribd, and the World Wide Fund for Nature as well as individual bloggers.
It received $4.1 million in a round led by Clearstone Venture Partners as well as angel investors Paul Maritz (CEO of VMware) and Steve Taylor (former executive VP of the Boston Globe).
[3] In August 2010, Apture announced their browser extension, Apture Highlights, which enabled users to instantaneously search for content from around the web without leaving the page.
[5] On December 20, 2011, Apture disabled its scripts and discontinued its products and services.