Thomson Reuters Launches Chinese BlackBerry App

March 24th, 2011 -- Thomson Reuters, the world's leading intelligent information and media company, announced today that its new "Reuters Handheld" Blackberry Chinese version of its "Reuters China.com" application has officially launched to meet business people's global financial needs. And market dynamics and other requirements for mobile information. Reuters.com therefore became the first and only international media company to cover iPad, iPhone and Blackberry Chinese programs.

Prior to the launch of the "Reuters Pockettone" BlackBerry Chinese version of the application, its iPad, iPhone version has been put into use. "Reuters Handheld Communication" will provide Reuters rich, timely and accurate global financial information and market dynamics data, which is presented in a simple and intuitive way on the BlackBerry interface. The software is completely free of charge. Business people can download "Reuters Handheld Access" to their mobile terminals, keep abreast of business information, in-depth analysis, master global financial data and company information, personalize subscriptions, select stocks, funds and exchange rates, etc. , support offline reading mode.

The Reuters PocketPad iPad/iPhone Chinese version was launched for only a few months and quickly became a popular app for the Apple Store China news category, which was loved and sought after by the majority of users. The new mobile information platform is also favored by many customers including Rolex, Chanel, and Li Feng Group.

Reuters China.com is the all-Chinese website launched by the Thomson Reuters Group exclusively for Greater China, providing online integrated financial information, in-depth reports and global financial market information services to business decision makers and individual investors in a global perspective. Reuters China.com was rated as the "Internet Weekly" 2010 China Top 100 Business Website, ranked 34th; at the same time, it ranked the 4th among China News Top 10 websites.

Alan Griffin, Asia President of Reuters Digital Media Business, said: “We attach importance to the rapidly growing Chinese personal mobile terminal market and Chinese business people’s demand for financial information and investment information. Therefore, we’ve launched the iPad/iPhone and Blackberry Chinese version applications for the first time. Let more Chinese readers master real-time information from Reuters through mobile terminals."

Reuters Chinese product manager Liu Zijian talked about his BlackBerry version of the Chinese program: "Blackberry phones occupy a high percentage of high-end business people. We believe that this Chinese version of the application will provide them with high-quality, timely financial information services. ”

The BlackBerry version of Reuters PocketPay can be downloaded from Reuters News Pro China in the BlackBerry software store. The iPad/iPhone version can be downloaded from the Apple Software Store by searching for the reuters news pro, and for the first time use the "China/China" version.