Moreover was founded in 1998 by Nick Denton, David Galbraith, and Angus Bankes.

[3] Moreover became involved with developing the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 1.0 standard in 2000[4] and was later acquired by VeriSign in 2005 for $30m.

[6] The sale included Weblogs.com with the ping server becoming wholly owned and run by Moreover.

Moreover currently powers the Ask.com News Search[7] and BBC Newstracker,[8] having global headquarters in Reston, Virginia and further offices in Dayton, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and London; furthermore, in October 2014, Moreover was acquired by LexisNexis.

[3] LexisNexis has since integrated Moreover's flagship product, Newsdesk, into their portfolio of media intelligence solutions.