Marketwire, is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information websites, databases, online community-driven forums, client proprietary lists, and more.
The company distributes news via traditional methods including the Associated Press, Dow Jones & Company, Bloomberg, Reuters, Yahoo!, and MSNBC, etc., exclusive channels, including access to the Canadian Press Wire Network, and the latest distribution outlets such as blogs and other social media websites.
Marketwire operates on an HTML platform, allowing news releases to make the most of today's Web environment via Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Embedded Video, and other means of interactive communications.
Fully recognized by the SEC, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and the UK's Financial Services Authority, Marketwire is an authorized disclosure vehicle for EDGAR filings, SEDAR filings, UK filings, and XBRL conversions.
Most recently, Marketwire entered into an agreement to acquire Press Release News Network (PRNN), a premier social and multimedia press release distribution and archival network. PRNN maintains nearly 1,200 geographical divisions through roughly 150 domains and 1,000 sub domains representing all U.S. metropolitan areas with a population of 100,000 or more, and 92 countries and 1,000 international cities with populations of more than 150,000. PRNN also has roughly 25,000 RSS feeds at the site and category levels. All PRNN sites are site-mapped and optimized for all the major search engines. As well, the Network is indexed in nine languages on online sites like Yahoo! Japan, Yahoo! China, Google India and others. This translates into unprecedented and unmatched reach for client social media press releases.

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