Dow Jones Factiva Adds Alert Widgets
May 29 2008 - 5:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
For First Time, Customers Can "Point, Click and Publish" Relevant
and Targeted News From Leading News Sources Such as The Wall Street
Journal and Dow Jones Newswires NEW YORK, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --
Dow Jones & Company today introduced new alert widgets in Dow
Jones Factiva, demonstrating its commitment to provide its
customers with the most effective tools to power an intelligent
enterprise. The new alert widgets allow users of Dow Jones Factiva
to post and share business-critical news and information on company
portals, intranets, wikis and team sites. Businesses can now
"point, click and publish" their way to company-wide awareness with
information from leading news sources. More than 80% of Internet
users have viewed and used widgets (ComScore, November 2007), mini
applications that provide quick access to Internet sites such as
weather, games and entertainment. However, the new Dow Jones
Factiva alert widget is the first of its kind to enable users to
easily share highly targeted business news from the world's leading
business and news sources, including The Wall Street Journal, Dow
Jones Newswires and more. "We think it's vital to provide
professionals with relevant and easy-to- implement tools that don't
need complex integration or technical resources to deliver
business-critical news and information, directly into existing
enterprise information workflows," said Dennis Cahill, senior vice
president and chief product officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media
Group. "This new capability builds on our commitment to enhance the
productivity of our customers by adding yet another way for them to
find and use Dow Jones Factiva content easily for better business
decisions." Users of Dow Jones Factiva -- including users of
Factiva.com, Factiva Search 2.0 and Factiva iWorks -- can create up
to 20 alerts with Factiva widgets, and display either headlines, or
headlines with snippets. Once the widget is posted, anyone with Dow
Jones Factiva credentials can click through to read full-text
articles which are updated every 15 minutes to ensure the most
current view of business-driving news. Factiva alert widgets can
also be posted to any personal page, such as iGoogle, Netvibes,
Blogger and Pageflakes, putting the power of Dow Jones Factiva
everywhere users work. For more information about Dow Jones Factiva
products, visit http://www.factiva.com/. For more information about
the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, visit
http://www.solutions.dowjones.com/. ABOUT DOW JONES Dow Jones &
Company (http://www.dowjones.com/) is a News Corporation company
(NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://www.newscorp.com/). Dow
Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information
services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street
Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones
Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow
Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group
operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50%
of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to
radio stations in the U.S. DATASOURCE: Dow Jones & Company
CONTACT: Shannon Sullivan, Public Relations Manager of Dow Jones
Enterprise Media Group, +1-609-627-2312, Web site:
http://www.factiva.com/ http://www.solutions.dowjones.com/
http://www.dowjones.com/ http://www.newscorp.com/
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