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Factiva




Factiva, a Dow Jones & Company and Reuters joint venture, provides essential Business and Research information and services for the business and education communities. Factiva products provide access to more than 10,000 sources (such as Newspapers , Journals , Magazines , news and radio Transcripts , etc) from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 continuously updated Newswires .

The company, which was started in May 1999, has developed modules with program as a news search module.

In 2005, Factiva acquired two private companies, London -based 2B Reputation Intelligence Ltd. , and Denver, Colorado -based taxonomy services and software firm, Synapse, The Knowledge Link Corporation . 2B was a technology and consulting business, specializing in media monitoring and reputation management. Synapse provided taxonomy management software, pre-built taxonomies and taxonomy-building and indexing services.

Factiva's search-based products provide searching by free-text as well as region, subject, industry and company metadata. Searches can be further filtered by publication, language and date range.


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