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GlobeNewswire

no editorial leaning — commercial press release wire service

Owned byNotified (a rebranding of West Corporation's communications division), itself acquired by Equiniti in 2025; Bullish, a digital-asset platform, agreed to acquire Equiniti from private-equity firm Siris in a $4.2 billion deal announced May 2026, pending close expected January 2027
FundingFees paid by corporate and institutional clients to distribute press releases and regulatory filings; no advertising, subscriptions, or public funding
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

GlobeNewswire was founded June 1, 1998, under the name PrimeNewswire, with a specific mission of eliminating the 15-minute delay that then affected financial disclosure to media. Nasdaq, Inc. acquired the service in September 2006, integrating it into its market-information and investor-relations product suite. In 2008 the company was rebranded GlobeNewswire to signal its international reach. Nasdaq sold GlobeNewswire along with its other public-relations and digital-media businesses to West Corporation in April 2018 for roughly $335 million. West Corporation subsequently rebranded its communications division as Notified in 2021, and GlobeNewswire operated as a flagship product within that unit. In 2025, Equiniti — a shareholder-services firm owned by private-equity firm Siris — agreed to acquire Notified; Bullish, a digital-asset exchange, then agreed in May 2026 to acquire all of Equiniti from Siris for $4.2 billion in an all-stock deal, bringing GlobeNewswire into a crypto-infrastructure holding company pending regulatory approval. Throughout these ownership changes, GlobeNewswire's core function has remained unchanged: it is a paid distribution network that carries press releases verbatim from clients to newsrooms, financial databases, and regulatory feeds, reaching more than 158 countries in 35 languages. Media-bias trackers such as Media Bias/Fact Check categorize it as 'least biased' specifically because it does not generate editorial content; the underlying press releases it carries reflect the positions of their issuers, not of GlobeNewswire itself.

Sources

  1. GlobeNewswire — Wikipedia
  2. West Corporation Closes Acquisition of Nasdaq's PR and Digital Media Businesses — GlobeNewswire
  3. Bullish to Acquire Equiniti from Siris in $4.2 Billion Transaction — Bullish
  4. Siris Announces Sale of Equiniti to Bullish — GlobeNewswire
  5. GlobeNewswire Bias and Credibility — Media Bias/Fact Check
  6. Press Release Distribution Services — GlobeNewswire
  7. PrimeNewswire is now GlobeNewswire — PR Week
  8. GlobeNewswire Pricing 2026 — Prezly

Profile compiled 2026-08-24; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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