Michael van Poppel
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Michael van Poppel is the founder and President of BNO News.
Van Poppel is known for acquiring and selling an authentic Osama bin Laden
video to Reuters
in September 2007 and ran a popular Twitter
-based news service from May 13, 2007 until December 1, 2009 when it had nearly 1.5 million followers. The Twitter account, "BreakingNews", was acquired by MSNBC.com
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In a press release in late November 2009, Van Poppel announced plans to launch a news wire service in January 2010. The news wire service eventually launched in January with MSNBC.com as its first client. Other news organizations bought subscriptions to the service soon after.
Van Poppel is known for acquiring and selling an authentic Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
video to Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
in September 2007 and ran a popular Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
-based news service from May 13, 2007 until December 1, 2009 when it had nearly 1.5 million followers. The Twitter account, "BreakingNews", was acquired by MSNBC.com
Msnbc.com
msnbc.com is a news website owned and operated as a joint venture by NBCUniversal and Microsoft.In addition to original content from its news staff, msnbc.com is the news website for the NBC News family, with content from the cable television news channel MSNBC, NBC shows such as Today, NBC Nightly...
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In a press release in late November 2009, Van Poppel announced plans to launch a news wire service in January 2010. The news wire service eventually launched in January with MSNBC.com as its first client. Other news organizations bought subscriptions to the service soon after.