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Factiva is a Global news and business information articles. Includes Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Full-text global news and business information service, combining the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Factiva is a business information and research tool owned by Dow Jones & Company. Factiva aggregates content from both licensed and free sources, and its provide organizations with search, alerting, dissemination, and other information management capabilities. Factiva products provide access to more than 36,000 sources such as newspapers, journals, magazines, television and radio transcripts, photos, etc. from almost 200 countries in 28 languages, including more than 600 continuously updated newswires

The company has been founded in May 1999 under the Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive name, then renamed Factiva six months later. Timothy M. Andrews, a long time Dow Jones executive, was founding president and chief executive of the venture. It developed modules with Microsoft, Oracle Corp., IBM and Yahoo!. It is also been included as of March 2003 in Microsoft’s Office 2003 program as one of the News research options within the Research Pane. Factiva’s search-based products provide searching by free-text as well as region, subject, industry and company metadata. Searches can be further filtered by publication, language and date range.
Factiva offers a number of enterprise integration options, including a fully comprehensive web services API, the Factiva Developers Kit. This toolkit allows organizations to embed Factiva content and services within enterprise workflow applications.
In 2008 Dow Jones launched the website Synaptica Central to highlight the Synaptica tool and to discuss controlled vocabularies and semantic technologies etc.