otc pink cmtx industry news internet financial information services founded 1980 incorporated as academic micropublishing company in new york headquarters new york city united states key people chip brian president and ceo kathy ballard vp operations products custom newswires electronic news feeds stock trend information electronic newsletters website www.comtex.com comtex news network inc. is a distributor of news on the internet specializing in the business and financial market sectors . 2 the company is a wholesaler of electronic real time news and content gathered from thousands of sources including national and international news bureaus agencies and publications including business wire dow jones mcclatchy information services pr newswire and united press international . comtex enhances and standardizes the content received from such sources in order to provide editorially consistent and technically uniform products to its customers . its processing includes adding stock ticker symbols indexing by keyword and category and converting diverse publisher materials and formats into the industry standard delivery format newsml an xml derivative . the company slogan is relevant . reliable . real time . 3 contents 1 product areas 2 history 3 business structure 4 external links 5 references product areas edit the company s product lines include customwires subject specific newswires including energy finance international and public company information ; comtex topnews comprising several categories of editorially selected news stories of the day ; publisher full feeds which are deliveries from specific publishers providing their content offerings ; and smartrend based on proprietary time series pattern recognition analysis . 4 comtex clients include information distributors such as marketwatch factiva bloomberg and reuters websites corporate intranets and market data applications . history edit comtex was incorporated in new york in 1980 and operated under the name academic micropublishing company inc. until 1981 when the name was changed to comtex scientific corporation . from 1989 until 1991 infotechnology infotech a delaware business development corporation then principally engaged in the information and communications business acquired majority ownership of comtex . 5 from 1991 until 2006 amasys corporation a successor in interests to infotech held a majority ownership position via a combination of stock and debt . in 2006 comtex repaid all of its outstanding long term debt and amasys sold all its shares . 6 in late 1999 comtex changed its name to comtex news network inc. 7 in 2004 chip brian joined comtex as vp operations and was named president in 2005 and ceo in 2006 . 4 a new management team was charged with the reducing debt strengthening the company s financial base and diversifying product lines . business structure edit consistent with standard practice in the information aggregation industry comtex generally has renewable long term contractual relationships with those information providers and information distributors with which it does business . comtex generates revenues primarily from charges to distributors for the licensing of enhanced content including customwires topnews products and publishers full feeds . royalties are based upon the customers business and revenue models such that success in their chosen markets generates increasing revenues for comtex . fees and royalties from information distributors comprise the majority of comtex s revenue . comtex operates and reports in one segment business information services . 8 external links edit comtex website smartrend website sec reports references edit comtex news network sec annual report on form 10 k405 for the year ended june 30 1996 msn money comtex news network inc. website a b e content magazine digital content strategies & resources comtex history comtex news network sec annual report on form 10 ksb for the year ended june 30 1997 information today volume 17 number 1 january 2000 comtex news network sec annual report on form 10 ksb for the year ended june 30 2007 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title comtex & oldid 719760931 categories companies listed on the pink sheetsamerican news websiteshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 may 2016 at 16 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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