Bernama in new information venture

PERTUBUHAN Berita Nasional Malaysia (Bernama) has entered into a joint venture agreement with a local information technology company to market a new real-time financial information service in Malaysia. The joint venture, Information Edge, will begin selling the product, Market Edge, after its official launch by Information Minister Datuk Mohamed Rahmat in Kuala Lumpur today. A statement issued yesterday said Information Edge is jointly owned by Bernama and Applied Information Management Services, a subsidiary of Pegi Malaysia, on a 50-50 basis. Essentially, Market Edge is a complete package of real-time financial information services meant for institutional and individual investors, broking…