MarketWatch.Com and Minyanville Strike Deal to Share Financial News Content
MarketWatch.com, an innovator in business news, personal finance information and investment tools, and Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, a leading financial media company, have agreed to share financial news stories over their respective Web sites — http://www.marketwatch.com and http://www.minyanville.com.
Links to all Minyanville articles mentioning specific public companies will now appear in news results on MarketWatch.com’s stock quote pages. Concurrently, Minyanville users can now access MarketWatch stock quote pages directly from the Minyanville home page, which will also feature several of MarketWatch’s top news headlines.
“Minyanville’s audience of traders and our users both value in-depth news and analysis about the companies they follow, so we’re excited to make our articles, columns and stock news more easily accessible to Minyanville readers,” said Jim Bernard, general manager of MarketWatch.com. “With the economy and stock market dominating headlines, Minyanville articles will be a great complement to our columns and products like ‘First Take’ that put financial news in perspective.”
“The decision to partner with MarketWatch.com on our syndicated content is another milestone in our mission of bringing financial news and information that’s educational, yet entertaining, to as many people as possible,” said Todd Harrison, founder and CEO of Minyanville. “At the same time, visitors to Minyanville.com have been asking for direct access to the latest stock news, and nobody does that better than MarketWatch.”
About MarketWatch, Inc.
MarketWatch, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, is a leading innovator in business news, personal finance information, real-time commentary and investment tools and data. The Company generates more than 1,000 headlines, stories and market briefs a day from 100 journalists in 10 bureaus in the U.S., London and Hong Kong. In addition to operating two award-winning Web sites, MarketWatch.com and BigCharts.com, as well as the stock market simulation site, VirtualStockExchange.com, MarketWatch provides radio updates every 30 minutes on the MarketWatch.com Radio Network and offers subscription products for individual investors, including the Hulbert Financial Digest suite of products, Retirement Weekly and ETF Trader. The Company’s MarketWatch Licensing Services group is a leading licensor of market news, data, investment analysis tools and other online applications to financial services firms, media companies, wireless carriers and Internet service providers.
ABOUT MINYANVILLE
Minyanville is an innovative media company that creates branded content to entertain and educate audiences about the world of finance. Led by a cast of animated “Critters” — including Hoofy the Bull and Boo the Bear — Minyanville uses “infotainment” to highlight the need for better financial understanding. Targeting a variety of segments — from kids to the most sophisticated investors — Minyanville reaches its audiences through their website (www.minyanville.com) and content distribution deals with The Fox Business Network, Yahoo! Finance, AOL, Kaboose, T.D. Ameritrade, MarketWatch, Bloomberg and others. For more information, please visit Minyanville at http://www.minyanville.com.