NewsEdge Expands Service Offering
Leader in Content Services Offers Three Comprehensive Packages to Enable Businesses of All Sizes to Enhance Corporate Web Sites
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2001--NewsEdge Corporation (NASDAQ:NEWZ - news), a global provider of content solutions and electronic publishing technologies for business, today announced the availability of three new service packages to enable customers to tailor Web-delivered news content and related services to fit their business needs. The new offerings are scalable to enable businesses of all sizes to more easily take advantage of NewsEdge's content syndication services for Web sites, Intranets, corporate portals and Extranets.
The service packages are tiered to offer NewsEdge syndicated content, infrastructure and publishing tools at each price point. Each package contains important elements of both NewsEdge core technology and business-oriented content including:
- Content resources--Syndicated content from the NewsEdge Refinery(TM), a unique and patented combination of technology and human editorial review, which ensures that news and information has been normalized, filtered, enhanced, categorized and tagged for maximum value and ease of selection. Content is selected from over 2,000 sources and delivered as over 1,700 business topics.
- Web site editor technology resources--To make publishing well-organized content to Web sites, including topic selection and organization, easy and seamless.
- User technology and resources--To drive Web site visitor experience and increase habituation including search, personalized Web pages and NewsEdge ReachOut Mail, a turn-key permission email marketing news delivery feature.
- Company Information Package resources--To provide end-users the ability to locate news, stock quotes and other essential information on publicly traded companies, including historical charts, corporate profile, financials, management discussion and SEC filings.
``Today's enterprises and leading Web sites understand the value of news as an educator and a site enhancer, and they also recognize the importance of easy-to-use technology for adding content to their sites,'' said Charles White, senior vice president of Content services for NewsEdge. ``Visitors and customers require industry-specific news content, and are increasingly turning to NewsEdge to find it. Our new packages allow customers greater flexibility in choosing syndicated content and related technology and tools. With packages beginning at only $12,000 per year, any enterprise or Web site can choose the program which fills their specific needs. NewsEdge services are more accessible to a wider audience of businesses.''
About NewsEdge
NewsEdge Corporation (NASDAQ: NEWZ - news) is a global provider of syndicated content services and electronic publishing technologies for business: serving publishers, Web sites, portals and corporate Intranets. NewsEdge services make organizations smarter, attract specialized audiences, foster high-frequency usage, promote Web site ``stickiness'' and ultimately cultivate commerce. NewsEdge serves thousands of sites and companies with highly targeted content solutions from the NewsEdge Refinery, including industry-specific topics, wireless services, turn-key permission marketing and publishing tools, outsourced editorial capabilities and sub-second live news feeds and applications. The NewsEdge Refinery combines a patented combination of sophisticated technology and human editorial review to deliver highly targeted news on more than 1,700 business topics from more than 2,000 sources. NewsEdge is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with offices and distributors throughout North America, South America, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. For more information about NewsEdge Corporation visit www.newsedge.com.
(c)NewsEdge Corporation, 2001, all rights reserved. NewsEdge is a registered trademark of NewsEdge Corporation. All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of NewsEdge or their respective owners. Certain of the above statements on the Company's future revenue and financial performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors including, risks associated with acquisitions, the timely development and acceptance of new products, competitive developments, the success of relationships with third parties, and other risk factors described from time to time in the Company's SEC reports.
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