While the U.K. government has been promoting former City types as potential candidates to fill the glut of headteacher vacancies in the British education system, Dow Jones Newswires has another idea. The news provider is stuffing its news rooms with former bankers, hedge fund managers, analysts and other refugees from the Credit Crunch.
Category: Newswire Services
| 01 Jul 2009 FREE | Thomson Reuters and Jiji Press Join Forces to Serve the Japanese Commodities Marketplace |
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Dow Jones Newswires Makes Hay from Wall Street Fallout » |
| On 15 Jun 2009 |
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Psydex Raises $3.5 million to Launch Algo News Portal » |
| On 21 Apr 2009 |
Psydex, which provides search and analysis of news sources in real time, has received $3.5 million in funding to launch Psyng, a portal that scours newswires, Internet feeds, TV closed captions, blogs and other sources of “chatter”. Psyng reveals statistical patterns and trends in social networks, human behavior and financial markets.
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Low Latency Applications Benefit from Intel 5500 Chips » |
On 30 Mar 2009  |
Developers of low latency trading and market data applications are likely to benefit from new Intel Xeon 5500 Series microprocessors introduced today. Based on Intel’s new Nehalem architecture, the chips are expected to offer much improved performance and less power consumption compared to current chips, especially in the areas of multi-threading, memory access, interconnect technology for co-processors and XML processing.
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Need to Know News Offers Lightning Bolt in Equinix Frankfurt Centre » |
| On 25 Mar 2009 |
Need to Know News has begun providing its Lightning Bolt algorithmic news feed service within the Equinix Frankfurt-North (FR2) International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centre, in addition to its current availability within Equinix centres in the New York and Chicago areas.
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Thomson Reuters Adds AlphaSimplex Alerting to NewsScope Service » |
| On 16 Jan 2009 |
Thomson Reuters has teamed up with AlphaSimplex Group to add a new NewsScope Event Indices (NEI) capability to its machine-readable news offering. The new addition seeks to bolster Thomson Reuters’ machine-readable offering as it competes with rival Dow Jones Newswires to deliver news in a format that can be consumed by event-driven trading and risk management applications.
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Interactive Data’s eSignal Adds TSX/CP Canadian News » |
| On 06 Jan 2009 |
Interactive Data Corp.’s eSignal unit has added TSX Datalinx’s and Canadian Press’s joint TSX/CP Equities News service, which offers bilingual, real-time Canadian corporate news service combining Canadian Press news with historical, real-time and fundamental data from TSX Datalinx.
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Xinhua Finance Continues Shrinkage with MNI Selloff to Deutsche Boerse » |
| On 22 Dec 2008 |
The dismantling of Fredy Bush’s Xinhua Finance empire continues apace with the acquisition of Market News International by Deutsche Boerse’s Market Data & Analytics group. The news comes days after Xinhua’s decision to shut down its Xinhua Finance News operation, which produces the Xinhua Finance Greater China Equities Newswire, and raises questions about the Stone & McCarthy Research Associates unit.
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Dow Jones, EFE Partner for Spanish-Language News » |
| On 18 Nov 2008 |
Dow Jones & Co. has partnered with Spain’s Agencia EFE to launch the new EFE Dow Jones News service, a joint Spanish-language news service for financial professionals, corporations, media, institutions and private investors in Spain.
| 13 Mar 2008 FREE | Dow Jones Acquires Dutch Corporate News Service Betten Financial |
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News Corp.’s Dow Jones Buy Yields Beachhead in Professional Data » |
| On 01 Aug 2007 |
News Corp.’s agreed acquisition of Dow Jones & Co. for some $5 billion is clearly a newspaper play. It’s obvious that News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has long harboured the ambition to become a Citizen Kane-type proprietor of a respected and powerful newspaper, and The Wall Street Journal fits the bill, particularly if you take a look at the relatively low esteem of his other newspaper holdings.
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Dow Jones’ Rejection of Murdoch Proposal Kicks Prospect of Journal TV Channel into Touch » |
| On 01 May 2007 |
Dow Jones’ Rejection of Murdoch Proposal Kicks Prospect of Journal TV Channel into Touch While the market data world salivated (or something like that) over the prospect of a Reuters/Thomson Financial combination, the action that may in fact have triggered the idea was almost forgotten. Dow Jones & Co. rejected News Corp.’s offer to buy the company at $60 a share, and the prospect of Rupert Murdoch’s company coming up with a revised offer that would convince the controlling Bancroft family to sell the proverbial crown jewels appeared bleak.
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Activ Outlines Plans for FPGA-, AMD-Based Ticker Solution » |
| On 16 Apr 2007 |
From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, April 2007: Activ Financial appears to be first out of the box with a hardware-based solution to clients’ low latency challenges using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. The company plans to formally introduce its ActivFeed MPU (Market Data Processing Unit) hardware accelerated feed processing platform at an event at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on May 14.
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Wombat Links with AMD, Cisco To Answer InfiniBand Questions » |
| On 16 Apr 2007 |
From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, April 2007: Wombat Financial Software’s collaboration last month with AMD and Cisco Technologies in a latency benchmark test conducted by Peter Lankford’s Securities Technology Analysis Center (Stac) is aimed at easing client prospects’ concerns as they mull the possibility of migrating to InfiniBand technology within their low latency market data infrastructures.
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Euronext To Offer Broadband, Proximity Services » |
| On 11 Apr 2007 |
From A-Team Group’s Transaction Networks & Technologies, April 2007: Pan-European exchange Euronext is seeking to reinforce its drive towards improved speed, flexibility, capacity and reliability with two new services slated for launch later this year, which it says complement the MiFID related services it announced earlier in 2007. Euronext’s efforts to offer lower latency are consistent with the strategy of exchanges worldwide to maximize the appeal of their liquidity by streamlining access to support increased algorithmic trading activity and soaring market data volumes.
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Interactive Data To Launch Direct Exchange Feed Offering » |
| On 05 Apr 2007 |
From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, March 2007: Interactive Data Corp. is set to join Reuters and Thomson Financial in offering a direct exchange data capability designed to meet the increasingly low-latency requirements of client institutions’ algorithmic trading, order management and other applications. The company plans to launch its new DirectPlus hosted service at the end of April, with Phase I of the rollout proving access to direct feeds from five high-volume U.S. exchange and ECN sources.
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Dow Jones Adds to Algo Offerings With Elementized News Feed » |
| On 01 Apr 2007 |
The last time Dow Jones had to worry about elementized data feeds was when TDQF, the Telerate Digital Quote Feed, formed part of its arsenal of feed offerings as part of Dow Jones Telerate, later known as Dow Jones Markets.
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Thomson/Wombat Tie Up For Low Latency Datafeeds » |
| On 05 Mar 2007 |
From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, February 2007: Thomson Financial has forged an agreement with Wombat Financial Software to embed Wombat’s low latency market data delivery capability within the real-time Thomson Data Feed (TDF). The deal gives Thomson a jumpstart in the area of direct exchange feed delivery and handling, and lends credence to Thomson’s plan to offer enterprise distribution of its data.
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Dow Jones Adds to Algo Offerings With Elementized News Feed » |
| On 01 Mar 2007 |
The last time Dow Jones had to worry about elementized data feeds was when TDQF, the Telerate Digital Quote Feed, formed part of its arsenal of feed offerings as part of Dow Jones Telerate, later known as Dow Jones Markets.
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HVB Prop Desks Leverage Kx Systems’s KDB+ » |
| On 05 Feb 2007 |
From A-Team Group’s Transaction Networks & Technologies, February 2007: HypoVereinsbank (HVB), part of the Unicredit Group, has gone into production with a cross-asset database system built using technology from Kx Systems to support its proprietary trading desks in Munich and London. The custom solution, running on 64-bit hardware, is being used to capture and analyze millions of streaming market ticks for immediate real-time analysis and to perform complex analytics on historical data.
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