Dow Jones to Launch Web-Based Services
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Dow Jones’ electronic businesses are getting a high-tech make-over.
The New York-based media company today will announce a new Web-based service called Dow Jones Interactive that combines Dow Jones News/Retrieval, the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition and several other services that contain reports, market research and financial data.
“We want to provide access to everything we do through a Web browser,” said Tim Andrews, editor and executive director of enterprise products for Dow Jones Interactive in Princeton, N.J.
Media outlets, corporations and individuals subscribe to Dow Jones to access a broad range of news stories and documents. Those reports will be easier for customers to get via the Web than using Windows-based software, Andrews said.
The Web address for the new Dow Jones Interactive will be announced in about two weeks, when beta testing begins.
Dow Jones will also launch a new business news service today with partners Knight-Ridder and the Financial Times. The three news organizations are teaming up to produce World Reporter, which will provide a database of news reports that focus on foreign countries, especially emerging markets.
Andrews said the three companies--normally rivals in the news business--teamed up to compete against Reuters Holdings’ news service. World Reporter will operate out of London--Reuters’ hometown--with a staff of 100, but each of the three partners will sell the World Reporter service separately.
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