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...A consensus took hold among staff and analysts that divisions such as the Factiva news database or the indexes operation that put Dow Jones’ name into every market report could be sold off to offset some...
...Type the term “Great Depression” into the press search engine Factiva and nearly 11,000 references over the past three months pop up, almost four times the same period a year ago....
...Their fear that Dow Jones cannot continue to expand its electronic businesses, such as wsj.com, Factiva and Marketwatch, because of lack of investment capital is also exaggerated....
...Other analysts noted that the greater synergies may lie in other businesses such as the FTSE and Dow Jones indices, Pearson’s majority stake in IDC and Dow Jones’ electronic assets such as Factiva and eFinancialNews...
...The deal comes as Dow Jones is itself being courted by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, whose assets include: Fox News, which is planning to establish a business news channel to compete with CNBC (which in turn...
...Dow Jones on Wednesday reported a 57 per cent gain in third-quarter earnings, and also said that it would pay $160m to take full ownership from Reuters of the Factiva news database....
...In what could prove to be a challenge to online services such as Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis and Dow Jones' and Reuters' Factiva, Yahoo Search Subscriptions is launching with initial content from just seven...
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