InfoGlobe Online and Dow Jones Interactive Join Forces in Powerful New Information Alliance.TORONTO Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing and PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1998-- New Business Intelligence Service Combines the Best Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. , U.S. and Global Resources Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Interactive Publishing, a division of Dow Jones & Company, and Globe Information Services See Information Systems. , the electronic affiliate of The Globe and Mail, today announced a powerful Canadian information alliance to create InfoGlobe-Dow Jones Interactive. This new joint online information service will combine the top national newspapers in Canada National English-language newspapers
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Through this new service, Canadian customers will be able to access an unparalleled selection of business news and information through easy-to-use software. InfoGlobe-Dow Jones Interactive will provide access to top sources such as: The Globe and Mail - Canada's National Newspaper, The Wall Street Journal and its global editions, The New York Times, The New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). ; respected global newswires; and key Thomson regional newspapers in Canada. In addition, InfoGlobe-Dow Jones Interactive will offer a wealth of financial information on millions of companies world-wide, including access to fundamental Canadian information through the Report on Business Corporate Data. Outside Canada, The Globe and Mail, Report on Business Corporate Data and other key Thomson newspapers will now be available through Dow Jones Interactive. Through this exclusive agreement, Dow Jones will be the only company with online research services for business professionals that offers The Globe and Mail archives to enterprises with world-wide operations in Canada and elsewhere. "This alliance between two powerful business and news organizations will enhance the services currently enjoyed by both InfoGlobe and Dow Jones customers and is designed to better serve our business information clientele on both sides of the border," said Lib Gibson, General Manager Globe Information Services. "Our customers want access to the most comprehensive collection of business news and information in a single package using state-of-the-art software and our new offering addresses that need." Allen Grossman Allen Grossman is a noted American poet, critic and professor. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1932, Grossman was educated at Harvard University, graduating with an MA in 1956 after several interruptions. , executive director of content and distribution, Dow Jones Interactive Publishing, said, "This unique alliance represents the natural evolution of increasingly collaborative efforts between our business information services over the last fifteen years. More than ever before, it will provide companies in 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. and around the world the information they need to compete in today's global markets. This alliance with The Globe and Mail assures Dow Jones customers around the world that they will be able to obtain the best Canadian news and information." InfoGlobe-Dow Jones Interactive will meet the information needs of employees in diverse business specialties throughout a company. It will give users direct access to a vast archive of essential business information and breaking news from around the world. InfoGlobe-Dow Jones Interactive service will consist of the following: - Current News -- for today's news from The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal and its global editions, The 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 Times, The Washington Post, the Washington Post, The Morning daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the dominant paper in the U.S. capital and one of the nation's leading newspapers. Established in 1877 as a Democratic Party organ, it changed orientation and ownership several times and faced Los Angeles Times, Barron's and SmartMoney, plus top newswires and major newspapers. - Dow Jones Publications Library -- for in-depth research through an archive containing all the publications from Current News; more than 20 years of The Globe and Mail; more than 5,500 other publications, including top Canadian sources such as The Financial Post, the Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. , many local daily newspapers and 1,300 global sources. - Dow Jones CustomClips -- continuously delivers news from thousands of sources in the Publications Library, including The Globe and Mail, using topics either created by Dow Jones editors or customized to an individual's needs. - Company and Industry Center -- for full-text reports from more than 400 investment analyst firms. Plus The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Corporate Data and full financial information, data and analysis on millions of companies from Dun & Bradstreet. - Quotes and Market Data -- for 24 years of pricing data on more than 300,000 financial issues from around the world. InfoGlobe-Dow Jones Interactive will be available to Canadian customers in June as a Windows product. The Web version, available later this year, will also offer: - Business Newsstand -- for the essential news and information now available in Current News, plus a wider selection of business magazines, international and industry newswires. - The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition - for the day's in-depth business news, updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. - Dow Jones Business Directory -- for Dow Jones editors' reviews and ratings on highly useful business sites on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . About Globe Information Services Globe Information Services is the electronic affiliate of The Globe and Mail, the world's first newspaper to archive the entire newspaper in electronic form. Globe Information Services provides timely business news and information to Canadian corporations, governments, and consumers through a variety of electronic and on-line media products and services, including: - InfoGlobe Online, a business news and information service provided to Canadian enterprises, being integrated into InfoGlobe-Dow Jones Interactive under this new alliance. - GLOBEfund, Canada's National Mutual Fund Site (www.globefund.com) - The Globe and Mail Web site (www.theglobeandmail.com) - CareerConnect (www.theglobeandmail.com/careerconnect) - The Globe and Mail channel on PointCast - Globe HySales, mutual fund sales and presentation software (see www.globehysales.com) In addition, Globe Information Services is a data supplier, providing Canada's authoritative corporate information database, the Report on Business Corporate Data, and comprehensive Canadian mutual fund data. Globe Information Services and The Globe and Mail are part of The Thomson Corporation, a multi-billion dollar communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. whose principal interests include specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. information and publishing worldwide. About Dow Jones Interactive Publishing Dow Jones Interactive Publishing provides business information to corporations and consumers by computer, telephone, facsimile, and radio. More information on Dow Jones Interactive and its products can be found at http://ip.dowjones.com. Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DJ) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and Interactive editions, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones Interactive, Dow Jones Markets and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. of the CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Asia and Europe, which are branded "a service of NBC and Dow Jones." Beginning in April, Dow Jones will also provide news content to CNBC in the U.S., which will be similarly branded during the business day. Worldwide, the new CNBC will reach more than 165 million homes. -0- The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper, Report on Business, InfoGlobe, and Globe Information Services are registered trademarks of Thomson Canada Limited. GLOBEfund, Canada's National Mutual Fund Site, CareerConnect, and Globe HySales are trademarks of Thomson Canada Limited. Dow Jones Interactive, Publications Library, The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, and Barron's are marks of Dow Jones & Company. All other products mentioned are the marks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Sandy Salem Manager, Marketing Services Globe Information Services (416) 585-5278 ssalem@globeandmail.ca or Maggie Landis Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Manager Dow Jones Interactive Publishing (609) 520-4679 mlandis@wsj.dowjones.com http://www.dowjones.com |
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