ChinaWeb and Reuters PLC Sign Data Distribution Agreement.Business Editors BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2000 Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. PLC, the global news and information group, today signed a comprehensive data distribution agreement with ChinaWeb Ltd., China's largest and most popular online provider of bilingual bi·lin·gual adj. 1. a. Using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency. b. financial content and service and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. clearing services. Reuters will supply its online "Reuters Investor Service" (RIS RIS rabies inhibiting substance. ) to ChinaWeb, giving individual investors access to Reuters financial information through ChinaWeb's portal www.chinaweb.com and www.homeway.com.cn . Reuters Investor Service uses state of the art Internet technologies to provide easy access to Reuters' global financial information. It provides distributors with the full flexibility to integrate Reuters content within their own websites. With the Internet boom all over the world, RIS has become one of the most popular international information solutions. Reuters Investor Service is used by leading financial websites to distribute Reuters financial information to individual investors. The agreement with ChinaWeb is the first distribution agreement of its kind for Reuters in China. Jimmy Ching For the Chinese surname Ching 程, see . For the Chinese dynasty, see . The ching (Thai: ฉิ่ง; sometimes romanized as chhing) are small bowl-shaped finger cymbals of thick and heavy bronze, with a broad rim commonly used in Cambodia and , Director of Financial Enterprise Services & Client Solutions for Reuters Asia, said: "Reuters Investor Service is a product tailored for online distributors who can use Reuters financial information to reach an extensive subscriber group." ChinaWeb CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Wang Bo-Ming stated "We will provide our customers with quite a lot more global market information and comprehensive services through cooperation with Reuters, and this will also establish a firm basis for both of us to develop Internet businesses in China." ABOUT REUTERS: Reuters supplies the global financial markets and the news media with the widest range of information and news products including real-time financial data, collective investment data, numerical numerical expressed in numbers, i.e. Arabic numerals of 0 to 9 inclusive. numerical nomenclature a numerical code is used to indicate the words, or other alphabetical signals, intended. , textual tex·tu·al adj. Of, relating to, or conforming to a text. tex  tu·al·ly adv. , historical and graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures. Reuters reaches over 521,000 users in 52,800 locations worldwide and extensively uses Internet technologies for wider distribution of information and news. Reuters provides news and information to over 900 Internet sites reaching an estimated 40 million viewers. Additionally, Reuters designs and installs enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction systems. Reuters is the world's largest news and television agency with 2,100 journalists, photographers and camera operators in 184 bureaux serving 154 countries. News is published in 23 languages. Instinet, an international electronic agency stockbroker Stockbroker 1. An agent that charges a fee or commission for executing buy and sell orders submitted by an investor. 2. The firm that acts as an agent for a customer, charging the customer a commission for its services. , is an independently managed subsidiary of Reuters. The Group employed 16,548 staff in 212 cities in 97 countries at 31 December 1999. For more details see www.reuters.com/mediapack/ ABOUT CHINAWEB: ChinaWeb Ltd., originally founded in 1995, offers a broad array of Internet financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. through its bilingual portals, www.chinaweb.com (English) and www.homeway.com.cn (Chinese). These services include extensive web-based e-commerce solutions, Greater China-related financial news, real-time equity, bond and Foreign Exchange quotes, free email and other Internet tools and enhancement services. These offerings enable end users and merchants to distribute financial information and conduct online financial and commercial transactions in partnership with China's largest banks and financial institutions. ChinaWeb's www.Homeway.com.cn portal is one of the most popular websites and the best financial and securities website in China as chosen by The China Internet Competition Survey conducted in January 2000. |
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