Bloomberg L.P. is an information services, news and media company serving customers worldwide. The Bloomberg Professional service integrates real-time and historical information on about five million bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and funds. Its electronic library also comprises data on almost every publicly traded company and biographies of more than one million people. Bloomberg News is a real-time news service that provides definitive coverage of companies, markets, industries, economies and governments. It offers an array of communication services available to the public. These include television and radio programs in seven languages, financial book publishing, a magazine and print news carried by more than 400 magazine and newspaper subscribers, including the New York Times, Washington Post and International Herald Tribune.