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Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. A news release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value. ... News media satellite up-link trucks and photojournalists gathered outside the Prudential Financial headquarters in Newark, New Jersey in August, 2004 following the announcement of evidence of a terrorist threat to it and to buildings in New York City. ... Disclosure means the giving out of information, either voluntarily or to be in compliance with legal regulations or workplace rules. ...

The company distributes news via its own electronic network, NX, developed by its inhouse tech team and using XML/NewsML. It also has carriage agreements with major news agencies, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters, Thomson One, and some sixty regional news agencies, to deliver content directly into their newsroom editorial systems. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... NewsML is an XML standard for the tagging of news stories and associated documents (e. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... AFP logo Paris headquarters of AFP Charles Havas Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a semi-official news agency chartered by the French government. ... Bloomberg L.P. is a financial news service founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981. ... Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), based in the United States is a publishing and financial information firm. ... Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY); pron. ... In journalism, news agencies are bodies established to supply news reports to newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. ...

Business Wire provides direct news feeds along with photo posting to Yahoo! Finance and other information web sites. It offers preset and fully customized RSS news feeds upon registration (which is free). Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... See web feed if you are unfamiliar with the general concept. ...

Working with stock markets and regulatory authorities, Business Wire is an authorized disclosure vehicle in the US (with news networks and EDGAR filings), the UK (with Financial Securities Authority (FSA) services), and other European markets including France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition to fulfilling financial disclosure requirements, Business Wire posts full-text news releases directly into major professional and individual investor systems. EDGAR, the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). Not all documents filed with the SEC by public...

Business Wire enables public relations and investor relations practitioners to target news to audiences in specific cities, countries, or regions, with translations available in up to 45 languages and with topical news feeds about more than 160 industries. Public relations (PR) is the art of managing communication between an organization and its key publics to build, manage and sustain a positive image. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Journalists can set up personal web, RSS and email news feeds based on their specific beat criteria.

History

Business Wire was founded on October 2, 1961 by its current chairman, Lorry I. Lokey. Cathy Baron Tamraz is CEO and president. In 2006, the company has about 500 employees. October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Business Wire logo == THIS POSTING MAY BE IN VIOLATION AND MAY NEED TO BE EDITED. IT READS AS AN ADVETISIMENT AND ITS CLAIMS HAVE NOT BEEN VERIFIED. == Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets...

On January 17, 2006, Berkshire Hathaway announced that it was purchasing Business Wire for an undisclosed amount.[1]. January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKa, NYSE: BRKb) is a company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. ...

The acquisition of Business Wire by Berkshire Hathaway was completed on March 1, 2006. [2] March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On September 27, 2006, Business Wire and Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ:VOCS), announced the two companies entered into a strategic partnership in which Business Wire would use a private label version of Vocus’ PRWeb press release distribution platform to provide a new search engine optimized (SEO) and social media distribution service. This would be referred to as EON or the Enhanced Online Newswire. September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... PRWeb is a company that distributes press releases over the Internet and via email and RSS feeds. ...

External links

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