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Category Print Date 3/6/2007 |
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Financial Post Unveils Daily Business and Financial News Podcast
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| FP’s 100th anniversary celebration continues with series of new features and enhanced financialpost.com |
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(TORONTO, Ontario) — As the centennial celebrations continue, Financial Post, Canada’s leading business and financial news source, welcomes its next phase with the launch of its inaugural free mobile offering, the Financial Post Daily Podcast, providing a unique and concise summary of the day’s business and financial news at the start of the day. The podcast is the latest in an extensive series of new and enhanced features at financialpost.com.
“financialpost.com provides all the business news and analysis people have come to expect from the Financial Post, Canada's oldest and most-respected business news source," said Jonathan Harris, Executive Editor of the National Post. "These latest enhancements, including the Financial Post Daily Podcast, bring us to the next level, providing Canadians with reliable and in-depth financial tools and market data."
The free Financial Post Daily Podcast offers a summary of current business news along with a look ahead at what will be making news in the business world, plus the opening market numbers from Europe and Asia. The podcast is available every weekday morning by 5am on financialpost.com and www.itunes.com.
Financial Post will produce the daily podcasts in concert with Daisy Media. Cisco has signed on as the inaugural sponsor, taking advantage of this unique opportunity to reach Canada’s business and financial audience.
financialpost.com has recently made significant enhancements to provide a richer content experience with financial data and tools powered by Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. Visitors can check stocks and mutual funds online and receive live, breaking news and market analyses by leading business minds in Canada. The site provides consumers and businesses with daily financial, personal investing and business information with new services including:
- an improved Portfolio Manager that aggregates data from stocks and mutual funds and transforms it into valuable information for users to make investment decisions;
- email Alerts for news, volume and price changes for stocks or mutual funds;
- handy Calculators for basic savings, currency, investment, and assessments;
- a comprehensive and customized platform for Mutual Funds, Markets, News, Futures, Key Numbers and Quotes and Charts.
Other recent enhancements of Financial Post online include:
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FP Trading Desk online at www.fptradingdesk.com, an online extension of the popular daily column which has garnered an immediate following;
- National Post’s new Full Comment blog at www.fullcomment.com, allowing readers to jump into the debate with Canada's most popular columnists and opinion makers;
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Financial Post Timeline at www.fp100.com that provides a decade by decade look at the greatest business stories over the past century.
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About National Post
The National Post is owned by CanWest MediaWorks Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CanWest Global Communications Corp, (CanWest) (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS and CGS.A, www.canwestglobal.com). CanWest, an international media company, is Canada’s largest media company. In addition to owning the Global Television network, CanWest is Canada’s largest publisher of daily newspapers, and also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, Web sites and radio networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom.
For further information, please contact:
Tammy Bender
CanWest MediaWorks Inc.
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