Factiva (R), formed in 1999 with the merger of the Dow Jones & Company and The Reuters Group online data services divisions, provides Fortune 500 companies and general consumers with a wide range of business information. The firm's Web-based Factiva.com platform includes Microsoft (R) and Oracle (R) application, search, tracking, indexing, multilingual support, content update alert, and other portal modules. The system employs instant messaging technology in distributing real-time news content to subscribers. Factiva is known for its Factiva Companies & Executives (TM), Factiva iWorks (TM), Factiva SalesWorks (TM), and Factiva Insight (TM) products. The systems provide users with financial statement, news, executive biography, government official profile, and other information. Factiva Insight encompasses corporate reputation information, media monitoring, and media benchmarking applications. Factiva Insight Media Monitor Plus supports multiple users. Dashboards simplify the creation of graphs and data resource articles. Factiva Select supports the management of multiple news feeds. The Factiva Developer's Kit Web Service provides users with an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) application programming interface (API), which can be used to integrate content with enterprise data processing workflows. The firm also is known for its Factiva Taxonomy and Factiva Synaptica enterprise taxonomy and thesaurus development and management tools. The company's Factiva Publisher allows organizations to control news content publishing. Factiva collects data from 9,000 sources across 152 countries. It processes information in 22 languages. It collects content from 'The Wall Street Journal,' 'The New York Times,' 'The Financial Times,' ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR, 'The Economist,' 'L'Express,' and other newspaper, magazine, radio, and television sources.