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Cision Ltd.

A maker of software and services for public relations and communications professionals, Cision provides tools for media monitoring, journalist outreach, and press release distribution through brands like PR Newswire and PRWeb. Its roots reach back to an 1867 Swedish press agency, and the company adopted the Cision name in 2007. The name nods to its heritage: "cision" comes from the Latin for "to cut," recalling the days when staff physically clipped articles from newspapers for clients.