Knight Ridder-owned Companies
A list of companies that were at one time or another owned by Knight Ridder:
- Vu/Text - 1982-1996. Merged with PressLink to become MediaStream.
- PressLink - ??-1996. Merged with Vu/Text to become MediaStream.
- MediaStream - 1996-2001. Acquired by NewsBank
- DataStar - Acquired from Radio Schweiz Ltd., merged with Dialog to form Knight Ridder Information
- Dialog (online database) - Merged with DataStar to form Knight Ridder Information
- Knight Ridder Information - ??-1997, Acquired by MAID, later by Thomson
- Knight Ridder Financial Inc - 1985 Buys MoneyCentre and renames it KRFI?? -1996, Acquired by Global Financial trading as Bridge Data
- RealCities Network - 2004-2006 RealCities was a portal/hub website for Knight-Ridder group. It was absorbed with The McClatchy Company into McClatchy Interactive and sold to Chicago-based Centro in 2008.
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