While the departure of enterprise head Clare Hart comes as something of a shock to many, the move by News Corp. to merge Dow Jones’ consumer and enterprise businesses is the result of a process of a merging of the respective organisations’ news operations that’s been ongoing since New Corp.’s acquisition of Dow Jones two years ago.

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Thomson Reuters has added real-time analysis of company events to its machine-readable news offering, leveraging its OneCalais service to add the capability via the NewsScope Company Events service. The move comes as Thomson Reuters completed its acquisition of Breakingviews.

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Bloomberg has acquired London-based alternative energy news and data provider New Energy Finance, signalling its movement into the renewable energy space. New Energy Finance specialises in coverage of the alternative energy space.

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The curious world of regulatory news will watch with interest as Thomson Reuters moves to acquire Hugin Group from NYSE Euronext. The deal, announced this month, is expected to raise regulatory eyebrows, since it involves the acquisition of a Primary Information Provider (PIP), as defined under the UK Financial Services Authority’s interpretation of the EU’s Transparency Directive, by a Secondary Information Provider (SIP).

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There have been some comings and goings in the world of news feeds for algorithmic trading.

Deutsche Boerse, in its first real news initiative since its acquisition of Market News International from Xinhua Finance, used the Sifma Technology Management conference in New York last month to introduce its CEF alpha+ macro news feed, an ultrafast data feed that supplies macroeconomic news for immediate processing by trading applications. The move brings Deutsche Boerse into the ranks of suppliers of machine-readable news services, among them Reuters and Dow Jones.

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