America Online and Financial Times Partner to Bring AOL Members FT Stories, Features and Links to FT.com.DULLES, Va. and NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999-- America Online See AOL. , the world's leading interactive service, and the Financial Times, the only worldwide daily newspaper specializing in global business, today announced a partnership to make the Financial Times a key provider of international business news on the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. service. As part of the partnership, the Financial Times will become an anchor tenant within the International News, International Business News and International Channels of AOL's domestic service, providing daily breaking news stories, exclusive features and links to the Financial Times Web site, FT.com. This agreement will give AOL users direct access to the FT's latest global business news coverage and will provide them with an international perspective from FT correspondents stationed around the world. Financial Times will also be accessible to AOL members through Keywords: Financial Times or FT. "We're very pleased to be able to offer our internationally-minded members access to news from the Financial Times," said Jonathan Sacks Not to be confused with Yonason Sacks. Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom's main body of Orthodox synagogues. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. , AOL's Senior Vice President of Programming Operations. "The worldwide journalistic reputation of the Financial Times is extremely impressive and having them as a partner is a powerful contribution to our international news offerings. This relationship is yet another example of AOL's commitment to bringing our members the very best brands available in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. ." "We are delighted to offer AOL members easy access to the Financial Times coverage," said Stuart Arnold, Managing Director of the Financial Times in The Americas. "The Financial Times offers an in-depth international perspective on world business and political developments that readers can not find anywhere else. We are sure AOL users will find the FT to be a welcome and complementing addition to AOL's International News and International Channels. Miss the FT and you miss a crucial briefing." "This new alliance will make available to AOL's 16 million members the global information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. of FT.com. These include a global archive of some 3,000 newspapers from around the world and comprehensive information on more than 20,000 companies worldwide," said Tony Blin-Stoyle, Director, FT.com. "As the range of business content on the Web grows, FT.com cuts through the clutter, providing accessible online tools that help users make sense of the global marketplace." Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 16 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. Established in 1888, the Financial Times is the only worldwide daily newspaper concentrating on international business. It provides authoritative coverage of international news as well as analysis and perspective on emerging markets, finance, economics, international companies, management, government and technology. The U.S. edition includes international news of special interest to U.S. readers. The Financial Times is printed at 12 sites around the world and is read daily by 1.3 million of the world's most influential business people in over 140 countries. The Financial Times is part of the Financial Times Group. Other companies in the group include Financial Times Business and Financial Times Electronic Publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. (FTEP FTEP Field Training and Evaluation Program FTEP Full Time Equivalent Public ). FT.com (http://www.ft.com), is published by FTEP and is the leading global business resource on the Web. It delivers world business and financial news, comment and analysis to more than 1.6 million registered users in 230 countries. FT.com combines the editorial values of the Financial Times newspaper with the immediacy im·me·di·a·cy n. pl. im·me·di·a·cies 1. The condition or quality of being immediate. 2. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness: the immediacy of live television coverage. , depth and interactivity of the Web. The site is updated throughout the day and its offerings include a comprehensive global Archive of more than four million articles and extensive company and market information. FT.com was recognized as the number one site for business news and finance on the Internet 100 Hot list (February 1999). The Financial Times Group is part of Pearson PLC, the global media, information and entertainment group. |
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