Acquire Media to Distribute Dow Jones News in Europe
January 08 2009 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Agreement allows traders, financial executives to benefit from
timely news and issues critical to business activities ROSELAND,
N.J., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Acquire Media, a premier digital
content provider serving the financial services and corporate
communities, today announced plans to distribute news from Dow
Jones Newswires to financial executives in Europe, enabling them to
benefit from critical economic and financial news rapidly and
efficiently. Under the agreement, Acquire Media will include Dow
Jones Financial Wire as part of its standard content set for
trading solutions in Europe. The news will be delivered from
Acquire Media's new data center in the United Kingdom, which opened
last month. Toby Cook, vice president of Europe, Middle East and
Africa markets for Acquire Media, lauded the agreement. "The
combination of Dow Jones content and Acquire Media's
state-of-the-art technology delivered from our UK data center means
that European financial executives may now select the best
combination of news, technology and network speed when sourcing
news for traders and investment analysts," said Cook. Richard
Hanks, chief operating officer for Dow Jones Enterprise Media
Group, noted that the agreement provides significant benefits to
traders and analysts. "Financial professionals rely on Dow Jones to
keep them abreast of economic, financial and political news," said
Hanks. "Our agreement with Acquire Media provides yet another way
for traders and analysts to access indispensable news from Dow
Jones from within the tools they are most comfortable using."
Acquire Media, which purchased NewsEdge in July 2007 from The
Thomson Corp., has boosted revenues significantly during the past
year. Since the acquisition, Acquire Media has invested heavily in
re-engineering the NewsEdge product line to augment Acquire Media's
position in real-time scrolling news and re-establish a dominant
standing in the corporate/web site news market, both under the
NewsEdge brand. About Acquire Media Acquire Media, formed in 2001,
is a premier software company that delivers multimedia news with
guaranteed reliability in formats that make content instantly
useable and searchable. Acquire Media, with four offices worldwide,
serves the news, digital publishing and financial services
communities, which depend on the speed of its delivery service,
reliability, 24x7 support, and its ability to handle multiple
outputs and delivery options. Visit http://www.acquiremedia.com/
for more information. ABOUT DOW JONES Dow Jones & Company
(http://www.dowjones.com/) is a News Corporation company (Nasdaq:
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: Acquire Media CONTACT: Andy
Baron of PAN Communications for Acquire Media, +1-978-474-1900, Web
Site: http://www.dowjones.com/ http://www.newscorp.com/
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