Rafat Ali
Feb 9, 2010 9:45 AM
Morningstar has done an unusual and small acquisition: it has bought financial blog Footnoted.org, for an undisclosed sum. The site, founded in 2003 by financial journalist Michelle Leder, pours over SEC filings and digs out various inside stories about companies. Besides the blog, it also has a premium service FootnotedPro…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 20, 2010 3:20 PM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Morningstar and Citigroup are backing Bundle.com, a new social finance site, which the three companies are pitching as a resource for consumers who want to see how their spending lines up with their peers. The site, which was incubated at Citigroup, lets users set filters for age,…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 3, 2009 3:39 AM
Stewart Brand may have said “information wants to be free,” but some companies don’t want it to be so free that rivals can profit from it. Online financial research publisher Morningstar is being sued by rival NewRiver for allegedly screen-scraping its web-based data to build its own service. NewRiver crawls…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 4, 2008 1:38 PM
Morningstar, the investment research and data firm, has acquired one of the services we use multiple times a day: 10-K Wizard, one of the providers of SEC filings research and alert services, for $12.5 million subject to working capital adjustments. Besides filings itself, 10K has been developing data mining tools…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 3, 2008 9:13 AM
Investment research firm Morningstar is buying Fundamental Data Limited, a UK provider of online information about so-called “closed-end funds”, a type of of investment scheme, for £11 million ($19 million). Fundamental’s products include the web-based dashboard FundWeb and info feeds, offered to investment banks, brokers etc. Morningstar, whose CEO Joe…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 9, 2008 1:48 PM
We missed this one during holidays in December: Investment research firm Morningstar has bought out UK-based financial information and news firm Hemscott, from Ipreo Holdings for $51.6 million in cash, subject to working capital adjustments. Hemscott has about 200 employees in New Delhi, India, 70 in London, and 10 in…
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