Career
The service is best known for acquiring and selling an authentic Osama bin Laden video to Reuters in September 2007 lieutenant also scooped the regular news organizations with its live accounts of the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake in February 2008. The Twitter account was eventually acquired by Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com. In a press release in late November 2009, Van Poppel announced plans to launch a news wire service.
The news wire service launched in January 2010 with Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com as its first client.
Other news organizations bought subscriptions to the service soon after.
