NEW YORK, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Business executives and individual
investors now have easy access to premium online news content from the world's
leading news sources through PR Newswire, marking the global information
distributor's first foray into e-commerce, PR Newswire announced today.
PR Newswire is offering free personalized subscriptions to
Today's Headline News until Sept. 1, when a nominal fee will be charged for
access to one source of news gathered from Knight Ridder/Tribune Business
News, EDGAR-Online, First Call Corporate Releases, Kyodo News Service, Canada
NewsWire, AFX News, Asia Pulse and the Australian Associated Press.
Today's Headline News will send headlines of breaking news stories
categorized by industry to subscribers via a powerful and customizable push
e-mail system or via a personalized web page. Qpass Inc., the Seattle-based
company providing the first web-wide transaction network, will ensure the
safety and ease of transactions.
"Business executives and individual investors need to stay on top of the
news as it happens. We are on the front line of sending out company
information, and now we can provide a roundup of news from the best
information sources right away," said John M. Williams, PR Newswire's
executive vice president.
Subscribers to the Today's Headline News service may retrieve stories by
clicking on the e-mailed headlines or by accessing their personal web page on
the Internet. After the free trial period ends Aug. 31, subscribers may opt
for monthly unlimited usage at $19.95 per industry category or could pay per
clip at a rate of $1.50 per story. Additional news sources will be added to
the service in the next few months. News releases from PR Newswire will
remain available at no charge. To register, please visit
http://www.todaysheadlinenews.com/ or http://www.prnewswire.com.
More than six million visitors currently retrieve information from
PR Newswire's main web site, in addition to the 13,500 journalists registered
for access to the PRN Press Room at http://www.prnmedia.com.
Qpass, http://www.qpass.com, will facilitate the online transactions by
registering and billing customers as well as authenticating payment. Visitors
who are already Qpass members may subscribe to Today's Headline News with the
click of a mouse.
"PR Newswire continues to be the gold standard for up-to-the-minute news
coverage of worldwide business. It's great to see them pushing the envelope
with these new features," said Chase Franklin, president and co-founder of
Qpass. "Adding PR Newswire's news products to our network of premium content
means that Qpass members now have access to exceptionally broad research and
market intelligence."
Qpass delivers real-time, point-of-sale e-commerce services to merchants
and consumers, and provides the transaction infrastructure that makes Internet
shopping easy and safe. Other Qpass merchants currently include
The Wall Street Journal, Corbis, Morningstar, the U.S. Department of Commerce,
The Industry Standard, Forbes, Newsbytes and One Source.
PR Newswire is the world leader in the electronic delivery of information
directly from companies, institutions and agencies to the media, financial
community and consumers through its vast wire, fax, satellite, e-mail and
Internet network. Forty-five years after founding the industry, it has
35 bureaus worldwide, an exclusive partnership with Canada NewsWire and a vast
network of international affiliates. PR Newswire provides a broad complement
of traditional and new media public relations and investor relations services,
including: the delivery of news releases and photos to a broad or targeted
audience; the creation of online investor information; the production of video
news releases; and the interactive connection between experts and the media.
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http://www.todaysheadlinenews.com http://www.prnewswire.com
http://www.prnmedia.com http://www.qpass.com
CONTACT:
Larry Thomas, Director of New Media,
212-596-1513, Larry_Thomas@prnewswire.com, or Renu K. Aldrich,
Public Relations Manager, 212-282-1929, 800-503-2654 (pager),
Renu_Aldrich@prnewswire.com, both of PR Newswire; or Jocelyn
McCabe of Apco Associates, 206-447-1135, jmccabe@apcoassoc.com,
for Qpass
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