Bloomberg and Ciner To Launch New Business TV Channel In Turkey

September 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - - Bloomberg is First to Offer The Times in Real Time Bloomberg L.P., the leading provider of information and analytic tools for businesses and professionals, will provide the first live feed of The New York Times on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service. Bloomberg subscribers will now be able to see at no additional charge the complete newspaper, as well as blogs, posts on the Web site and breaking news alerts from The Times.

September 9th, 2009 NEW YORK and MUMBAI, India - - Global news leader joins hands with top Indian media company to deliver business news to viewers across India Bloomberg, the global leader in business news and information, and the promoters (founders) of UTV, India's leading integrated media and entertainment enterprise, today announced that they will collaborate on a television channel to deliver unsurpassed real-time business, economic and political news to households across India. The newly co-branded channel will become the premier business and financial broadcast news outlet in this important market.

August 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Starting in September, CHARLIE ROSE, the acclaimed nightly in-depth conversation will reach audiences across the globe via Bloomberg's multimedia platforms. (Photo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090806/NY57886 ) Charlie Rose, which airs on more than 220 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) channels in the U.S., will broadcast a next-day international edition on the Emmy(R) award winning BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) network.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - President Barack Obama has overwhelming support among the world's most influential investors outside of his own country, according to the first-ever Bloomberg Global Poll, a quarterly survey of economic, financial and political attitudes among Bloomberg users around the world. The first Bloomberg Global Poll interviewed a random sample of 1,076 subscribers to the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service, a universe of more than 300,000 decision makers in finance, the markets and economics.

July 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - The world's most influential investors give Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke high praise for combating the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, according to the first-ever Bloomberg Global Poll, a quarterly survey of economic, financial and political attitudes among Bloomberg users worldwide.

June 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - - Bloomberg Hires Daniel Hertzberg in New York; Jonathan Kaufman, Daniel Golden in Boston; Anita Sharpe in Atlanta Daniel Hertzberg, a Pulitzer Prize winning editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal for more than three decades, joins the BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) service as senior editor-at-large in New York as part of Bloomberg's global expansion in markets, finance and regional business news. "Dan Hertzberg sets the standard for global news judgment and has few peers embodying the best practices of journalism," said BLOOMBERG NEWS Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - The real-time market data feed from the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange ("KASE") is now available to investors across the globe via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service. With this development, Bloomberg users can access KASE real-time trading quotes, pricing and corporate information.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - BLOOMBERG MARKETS(R) magazine, the award-winning monthly publication for investors and business professionals, has named Michael Dukmejian as publisher, reflecting the magazine's growth and Bloomberg's commitment to expansion of its media products. "There isn't anyone more qualified, experienced and passionate to become publisher of BLOOMBERG MARKETS magazine than Mike Dukmejian," said BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) Founder and Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler, to whom Dukmejian will report.

May 10th, 2009 EDINBURGH - Leading cheap flight site, Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net) reveals this summer's fastest growing destinations for British holidaymakers, and those that are losing out. With anti-eurozone sentiment still strong, Brits are increasingly looking to non-euro destinations this year.

April 26th, 2009 NEW YORK - AP Joins Growing Universe of News Sources on Bloomberg Bloomberg L.P., the leading provider of information and analytic tools for businesses and professionals, has added The Associated Press ("AP") real-time news service to the thousands of news sources available on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service. AP joins more than 100 real-time premium news services on the all-inclusive BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, including Gannett, United Press International, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Agence France-Presse, ANSA, Xinhua News Agency, Kyodo News, Agencia O Globo, Asahi Shimbun, Agencia EFE, Yomiuri Shimbun, Comtex News Network, Agencia Estado and others.

September 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Leading Indian television and entertainment house UTV and the US-based news and information content provider Bloomberg have signed an agreement to launch a business news channel in the country. The pact also calls for the renaming of an existing channel as Bloomberg-UTV and will target 30 million households across India with business, financial, and political news, a joint statement by the two companies said.

October 1st, 2009 Washington Post, Bloomberg to launch news serviceSAN FRANCISCO — The Washington Post and Bloomberg News are teaming up in a new partnership that will distribute their political and financial coverage to a broader audience. The venture announced Thursday includes a news service that fills the void created by the dissolution of a 47-year alliance between the Post and the Los Angeles Times.

September 15th, 2009 NYC comptroller wins primary to face BloombergNEW YORK — New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. has cruised to victory in the Democratic mayoral primary and will face billionaire incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

July 28th, 2009 NYC mayor deposed in discrimination lawsuitNEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has completed another round of questioning about accusations that the financial data and news service he once headed discriminated against women. Lawyers in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit deposed Bloomberg behind closed doors Monday.

September 30th, 2009 Bloomberg, others press for federal security fundsNEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials are urging Congress to make sure a program that helps the city protect against a radiological or nuclear terrorist attack gets adequately funded. Bloomberg was joined at a news conference Sunday by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, U.S.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hollywood aficionados in India have a reason to smile as entertainment biggies Turner International India and Warner Bros. Entertainment will soon launch a new English entertainment channel WB.

March 14th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh will launch Dugdugi TV, a channel exclusively for children, April 14 on Pahela Baishakh that marks the beginning of the Bengali year. 'Movies and special programmes for children will form the mainstay of the channel.

February 22nd, 2009 CHENNAI - The Rs.586-million (Rs.58.6-crore) Raj Television Network - the second largest Tamil satellite television company - is foraying into the Kannada language market with a music and a news channel. The company is going slow on its plans to start a Telugu news channel, while the group company's general entertainment channel in the same language is set for a makeover.

April 27th, 2009 ANKARA - Turkey Monday started its first joint military training exercise with neighbouring Syria, the Turkish general staff said. The small-scale training exercises focussed on border protection and will last until Wednesday, said a spokesman for the general staff.

July 24th, 2009 NYC mayor apologizes for his idling SUVsNEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg has apologized for letting his SUVs idle for long periods of time. Bloomberg ordered his drivers to stop the practice this week after The Associated Press reported observing the parked vehicles' engines running for long stretches.