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Wayne,
Thanks for your enlightning mail on the 'media' subject, I do agree with you
on what you wrote, for instance how manipulative news can be brought
to us and that we as its consumers should check up on it for it to be true.
This "we checking up" is already partcialy done by the very stiff competition
among the 'news companies and agencies'. CNN, Bloomberg,
News Corp, Bertelsmann, Birch, AP and hundreds of TV/radio-stations around the world,
newspapers etc do have their own resources and 'independant' reporters
and also do have to struggle for live among themselves to get viewers' attention.
On the other hand, also refering to your mails' contents, companies consist
of more than 1 employee usually, and for that, actions by a few or a lot of
them, does not mean that they count for the whole force or for that particular
company as a whole.
>From some of the news on Reuters lately, one is that their UK-HO decided to
join-up more with other software companies. This is to be beneficial more to
the said companies as well as for Reuters themselves getting a bit closer to
its consumers and also for its expansion growth.
Aquiring Equis among others was the beginning of this expansive strategy.
Forgot to mention that RTD is a venture from Equis using Reuters' sources
and not what the name suggests, that it is also a Reuters company. Indirect it is,
as Equis belongs to Reuters as a full daughter company, but RTD remains part
of Equis. Run, managed and owned by Equis, wich is an independant
company owned by Reuters.
RTD is not available overhere, though. Other data-vendors make up for it,
with their accompanying (high) prices or bad data. Also for that matter, we
are not enabled to make any use of the Downloaders' friendly Dialing
functionalities for collecting any of their securities' prices/data.
Hopefully, when the EURO Exchanges join up to form only one or two
major exchanges, this can be achieved among data-vendors too.
Don't think RTD will come to Europe, as there are so many local IR-software
packages available, each in their own "mother tongue lango", with their own
data-format and their own converters.
Regards,
Ton Maas
Ms-IRB@xxxxxxxxx
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