Hearst Corp. (News in Brief).Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , has completed the purchase of Medi--Span (Indianapolis, IN) from Hearst Corp. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ). Medi--Span, which will be merged into Kluwer's Facts & Comparisons (St. Louis, MO) division, has annual revenues of $26 million and its electronic drug data and clinical information is integrated into the software systems at more than 20,000 pharmacies, 2000 hospitals, as well as health insurers and physician's offices. Announced in November, the deal was approved by the FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). in mid--December as part of a settlement with Hearst Corp. The settlement was approved by the Federal District Court just before Christmas. |
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