Browsing: Data Providers
NPD Group Acquires Sports Market Research Firm
10/17/2013
The NPD Group, a leading provider of point-of-sale (POS) information, is acquiring Leisure Trends, a market research firm specializing in the sports and recreation sector. Terms of the acquisition were ...
Early Release of Sentiment Data Not Unlawful, But…
07/15/2013
New York, NY- Last week, Thomson Reuters reached a settlement with New York’s Attorney General to halt the early delivery of consumer sentiment data to certain customers due to the ...
JP Morgan Presses Bloomberg on Access to Subscriber Data
05/20/2013
New York, NY – Last week, JP Morgan Chase sent a formal letter to global market data vendor Bloomberg LP, requesting five years of internal logs verifying what data the ...
Goodbye CFRA, Hello Governance Research
04/30/2013
In the wake of CFRA’s spinoff, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading proxy research provider, announced it is now distributing third party governance research. The move underlines the question ...
Whistleblower Alleges Early Release of Embargoed Data
04/09/2013
A former employee accused Thomson Reuters of firing him for telling the Federal Bureau of Investigation that the company’s release of consumer sentiment data violated insider-trading laws according to a ...
Research Profile: Online Consumer Sentiment Data Used to Generate Alpha
04/01/2013
New York, NY – Can the actions and sentiment of online consumers be captured and synthesized into a meaningful signal for individual equity prices? One unique social media data and ...
Anonymous Hacks ClearForest
03/05/2013
ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters subsidiary which provides tools for data mining text and social media, suffered a severe attack by a group affiliated by Anonymous. A group called Par:AnoIA is ...
MSCI to Acquire IPD Group
10/31/2012
MSCI Inc. announced it is acquiring IPD Group Ltd., a London-based real-estate research provider for $125 million. The transaction confirms the low multiples being fetched by research properties.
IPD Group (originally ...
New Energy Infrastructure Research Report Based on Satellite Imagery
08/22/2012
New York, NY – DigitalGlobe, a Colorado-based provider of high-resolution satellite imagery, recently announced a partnership with Genscape, a Houston-based pioneer in sophisticated energy monitoring technology, to jointly publish a ...
FactSet Acquires StreetAccount
07/06/2012
FactSet Research Systems Inc., a leading market data provider, has acquired StreetAccount LLC, which organizes news content for institutional investors. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is ...