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MARKET DATA BRIEFS
Bridge has released a customized suite of professional investor tools specifically for the individual investor. The BridgeInvestor suite will be remotely accessible for users to fully customize their workspace. The application is built on Dynamic HTML to track markets and issues with a variety of workstation features such as quotes, charting, reports, recommendations, global financial news and commentary from BridgeNews. BridgeInvestor can be customized in terms of window placement, size, location and desktop preferences. In addition, Bridge will be integrating and providing streaming financial information for E*Trade MarketCaster, a streaming personalized online service for E*Trade brokerage account holders. Users will have access to real-time quotes and market data as well as charts, tables and other Bridge proprietary content. E*Trade MarketCaster runs on the latest version of Bridge Internet Toolkit.
Factiva is launching Factiva Select, a suite of tools to integrate Factiva news and business information into intranets and portals. Factiva Select is a filtered XML content feed that integrates Factiva content into end-user applications or computing environments. Users can co-mingle 90 days of Factiva content with third party and internal content to build a searchable, indexed content collection.
Market Information Services (MIS), a supplier of analytical data base solutions, has appointed Martin Johnson to sales manager. John will be responsible for MIS' global sales. HE was previously head of UK regional sales at Primark where he was responsible for the Worldscope and Extel products.