Factiva has announced the launch of Factiva.com, a Webbased news and business information service. Factiva.com will replace Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing, and will deliver the content sets from these two existing products to provide a universally indexed, global content collection of nearly 8,000 sources in 22 languages from 118 countries.

Factiva's global content collection includes Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Reuters Pictures, and industry and trade publications, plus more than 7,500 business-oriented sites. Factiva Intelligent Indexing categorizes all of this information with industry, news topic, and geographic codes plus more than 300,000 company codes.

According to the company, the design of Factiva.com allows users to customize the display and functionality of their search screens, and gives them access to every product feature from almost every interface point in two keystrokes or less. News-tracking folders enable users to monitor industries, customers, competitors, or specific topics of interest and receive that news via e-mail. Users may also personalize the product by building news pages to meet their specific business information needs. Administrators can control how information is used and distributed within the enterprise with customized group news pages.

Source: Factiva, Princeton, NJ, 800/369-7466, 609/627-2000; http:/www.factiva.com.