Beyond.com Acquires Orbius

October 7, 2010 – Beyond.com, Inc., a network of niche career communities, has acquired Orbius, a social website platform that allows businesses to create and govern their own full featured social or professional networking community website for their members, employees or customers. The acquisition will allow Beyond members to evolve beyond the employment experience into new ways to connect and engage throughout their career, business and life. “For years, Beyond.com has remained focused and committed to providing our members with valuable and relevant communities in which to connect and interact across a variety of industry, geographic and specialty areas,” said Rich Milgram, CEO of Beyond.com. “Our members are embracing these communities and are hungry for more content and information and want to create their own online persona and evolve their personal and business networks.”