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Vocus Group Limited, formerly known as Vocus Communications, is an international telecommunications company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Founded by James Spenceley as a wholesale & business telecommunications provider, Vocus provides retail, wholesale and corporate telecommunications services across Australia and New Zealand. Vocus offers Data Network services like Internet, Dark Fibre, IP WAN, Unified Communications and Telephony and Cloud Services to mid, large and corporate businesses direct and also acts as a wholesaler. The company owns and operates 18 Data Centres across Australia and New Zealand and has an onshore Network Operations Centre (NOC) run by the engineers who built the network.

Vocus (software) former business enterprise headquartered in Beltsville, US

Vocus was a public relations software company based in Beltsville, Maryland, United States, serving clients worldwide from 1992 to 2014. In addition to its web-based PR software suites, the company owns the online publicity services, PRWeb and Help a Reporter Out (HARO). Vocus was founded in 1992 by Rick Rudman and Bob Lentz and was a publicly held company until June 2014 when it was taken private by Chicago-based private equity company GTCR. The company operates additional offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since late 2014, the company merged with Cision AB to form Cision Inc. as the succeeding company.

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Cision company

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Nextgen Networks

Nextgen Networks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus Group, an Australian-based international telecommunications company.

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M2 Group

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Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is an online service for journalists to obtain feedback from the public. It enables journalists to connect with experts in issues relevant to their reporting. It was founded as a Facebook group in 2008 by Peter Shankman and was later turned into a mailing list claiming over 100,000 members. In June 2010, HARO was acquired by Vocus, Inc. In 2014, Vocus merged with Cision Inc. and HARO is now one of Cision's brands. As of 24 August 2018, the HARO "About" page claimed that the service had more than 800,000 sources and 55,000 journalists and bloggers as participants and many big Media Outlets like The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Time, WSJ, Fox News, Reuters are using HARO.

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James Spenceley

James Spenceley is an Australian investor, award-winning entrepreneur and company director. He is the founder of Vocus Communications, the CEO and co-founder of MHOR asset management and an active Venture Capital investor. He is also the Chairman of Airtasker, Chairman of Silver Heritage Group and Non-Executive Director of Indoor Skydive Australia.