Marketwire's Winter Sports newslines target sports journalists, editors and media professionals worldwide, reaching more than 18,000 global media points and an audience of billions, especially since they coincide with the Olympic (February 12-28, 2010) and the Paralympic (March 1 …

United Business Media Limited today announces that it has acquired Virtual Press Office (VPO) from its private shareholders on behalf of PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) for an initial cash consideration of $6.5m, with a further performance-related consideration of up to $3.5m p …

PR Newswire announced today the acquisition of Virtual Press Office (VPO), bringing together the leading global providers of tradeshow news distribution solutions and online press office management.

PRWeb has announced significant enhancements to its online news release distribution tool. The improvements are designed, it said, to make it easier to incorporate multimedia into news releases.

Thomson Reuters today announced it has completed the acquisition of Hugin Group BV from NYSE Euronext. Hugin is the leading pan-European provider of regulatory and news distribution services.

Asia Business News (ABN) today announces the immediate availability of Asian newswire services direct to Institutional and Retail investors in Asia, simultaneously in multiple languages. Through a network that includes Bloomberg, the Financial Times and Dow Jones Factiva, ABN ha …

Early this morning, I posted the following on the IR Web Report Bits blog. I normally would not cross post items like this because IR Web Report is usually reserved for less personal and more detailed articles, but I think this calls for an exception.