Reuters Media to Extend Reach into Newsrooms Using InfoDesk Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2003 Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY; London: RTR RTR Ready To Run RTR Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs Gmbh RTR Rotor RTR Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (Romansh Radio and Television, Switzerland) RTR Response Time Reporter RTR Ready To Race RTR Ready to Roll ), the global information company, and InfoDesk, Inc., a leading provider of real-time information distribution services and technology, today announced a marketing agreement that will allow Reuters to broaden its reach into North and South American media outlets and government agencies. Reuters Media customers now have the option to receive Reuters news using InfoDesk's Internet based news delivery platform and content management capabilities and will be able to obtain InfoDesk directly through Reuters. "We are pleased to leverage InfoDesk's easy to use, plug-and-play content management solution to reach hundreds of new desktops throughout the Americas. This agreement underscores our commitment to offering our clients options in receiving Reuters content," said Michael Salk, Vice President, Media. InfoDesk will help Reuters reach additional media companies in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. by addressing the need for a low-cost and reliable content delivery platform with key functionality. "We are extremely pleased to be working with Reuters, a company known for providing indispensable information. This agreement marks an important milestone for InfoDesk and underscores our approach to marketing our services," commented Sterling Stites, President and Chief Executive Officer, InfoDesk. About Reuters Reuters (www.about.reuters.com), the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the 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. , media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe based on our reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. We have 16,000 staff in 94 countries, including some 2,400 editorial staff in 197 bureaux serving approximately 130 countries, making Reuters the world's largest international multimedia news agency. In 2002, the Reuters Group had revenues of GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 3.6 billion. Reuters and the sphere logo are the trade-marks of the Reuters group of companies. About InfoDesk InfoDesk, Inc. (www.idsk.com) is a leading provider of, digital content distribution services and technology to publishers and corporations. The company's solution enables real-time personalized distribution, over IP networks, of text, photographs, audio and video to a comprehensive range of devices and applications and automates Web site publishing. The solution supports a wide range of structured and unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. formats including popular XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and ANPA ANPA Agenzia Nazionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente (Italy) ANPA Association of National Park Authorities (of England and Wales) ANPA American Newspaper Publishers Association ANPA Actif Net Par Action standards and enables publishers to quickly customize and target content products to meet market and customer needs. InfoDesk distributes information from the world's leading information brands including Reuters, the Associated Press, Dow Jones, Agence France Presse, Knight Ridder Tribune, Financial Times, Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. and many others. |
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