MSN, Microsoft`s consumer Web portal, has partnered with netAssets, Johnnic and BDFM`s financial Web site, to provide MSN members with powerful stock market news and information. The service expands MSN`s current offering to its 1 million Internet and 340 000 Hotmail users.
Through the new partnership, MSN users have been given access to the combined news and analysis of the country`s leading financial publications - the Financial Mail, Business Day and Sunday Times. Supported by I-Net Bridge data feeds, netAssets provides immediate company news releases from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange; breaking news from the local and international press; regular market reports; comprehensive company updates; share and warrant performance tables; and extensive analysis and advice from the country`s top financial journalists.
Ashika Kalyan, country manager for MSN, says: "We believe consumers prefer a reliable, comprehensive Internet service, as opposed to moving from site-to-site for information. The partnership with netAssets provides the opportunity to extend this philosophy to the investment arena. netAssets contains such a wealth of financial information that members wishing to invest on the stock exchange need look no further than MSN."
Michel Pireu, editor of netAssets and a market trader, explains: "netAssets was specifically designed for market watchers. It provides constant news and data updates on currencies, commodities, companies, sectors and markets required for successful investing. Its wide-range of content extends from the complex analysis of the derivatives markets, through special interest sections and regular columns to the reviews of appropriate books and services. It includes sound investment advice and share tips. Combined with the other investment links on MSN, it creates an unrivalled investor portal."
To access NetAssets on MSN, please visit http://money.msn.co.za/stockmarket.
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Johnnic Publishing and BDFM (Formely known as Times Media Limited)
100% controlled through the Johnnic Holdings subsidiary Johnnic Communications. TimesMedia was launched in 1939, its beginning can be traced back to 1902. Today Johnnic Publishing is a leading provider of quality news and information, servicing a broad range of consumers as well as producing the best media products for marketers. Johnnic Publishing Limited, then known as the Sunday Express Limited, was established 60 years ago, 37 years after the launch of what was to become its flagship newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail (RDM). The Sunday Times was the offspring of the Rand Daily Mail, 50% owned by Johnnic Publishing in a joint venture with Pearsons plc. DFM targets the business audience. BDFM`s major print titles are Business Day and Financial Mail, the market leaders respectively in specialist daily and weekly business publications. They support respected surveys, such as the FM`s AdFocus and Top Companies. BDFM has become a multimedia operation that extends to the branded Business Day Online and Financial Mail Online Web sites, Summit TV on the DStv bouquet, and PR Newswire for electronic dissemination of news releases. It has an active shareholding in I-Net Bridge
If you are interested in viewing additional information on Johnnic Publishing, please visit www.johnnicpublishing.co.za.
The full NetAssets Web site can be found at www.netassets.co.za.
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