Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. Today it was announced that IBM is acquiring the company for an undisclosed sum. Over the years the company has attracted around $167M in venture funding from such organizations as Highland Capital Partners and Accel Partners. After Bazaarvoice CEO Brett Hurt left Coremetrics the company relocated its headquarters to the bay area, but [...]