Marketwire

Marketwired

Type	Privately held
Industry	News dissemination
Founded	1982 (as Canadian Corporate News)
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Area served	Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Latin America
Key people	Adnan Ahmed (President and Chief Executive Officer)
Services	Online press release and content distribution. Social media monitoring and research.
Owner	Nasdaq, Inc.
Number of employees	300+
Subsidiaries	Sysomos
Website	http://www.marketwired.com/

Coordinates: 43°38′36″N 79°22′51″W / 43.64328°N 79.380854°W / 43.64328; -79.380854 Marketwired is a press release distribution service headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Marketwired was founded in 1993 and incorporated in the U.S in 1999. The company distributes press releases via traditional methods (Associated Press, Bloomberg, etc.) as well as new media methods and other services.

Marketwired was founded as Internet Wire in October, 1994 by PR agency owner Michael Terpin and online marketer Michael Shuler in Los Angeles, CA. It received $17.5 million in venture capital in January 2000. The company changed its name to Market Wire in April, 2003, after making a partnership with NASDAQ, where its services would be recommended to listed companies.

In 2000, a former employee of Internet Wire used the service to perpetrate an insider trading scam. He shorted Emulex stock, then published a fraudulent press release reporting problems at Emulex Corporation, which lost 62 percent of its value in morning trading. He was found out by the FBI and sentenced to 44 months in prison.

In 2006, Marketwired (then known as Marketwire) was acquired by CCNMatthews, a 25-year-old news distribution company in Canada. The company adopted the name Marketwire unilaterally. At that point, it was majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation, a Canadian pension fund. The company's history can be traced back to 1957.

In July 2010, Marketwire acquired Sysomos, a social monitoring and analytics service, offering customers the ability to track their social presence across sites like Facebook and Twitter.