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Schneider Electric to acquire US software firm PTC for $22.6 billion

Rank
Running
26h
Updated
6h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
4

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Financial Times United Kingdom · English 4 Oct, 19:33 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Français (1) · Русский (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 26 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Financial Times, 4 Oct, 19:33 UTC.
  2. Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 14:49 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

27 of 27 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

29%14%57%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 57%

First movers

  1. Financial Times 4 Oct, 19:33 UTC
  2. Bloomberg +1h 13m
  3. CNA +10h 6m
  4. Le Figaro +11h 56m
  5. Kommersant +15h 57m

Latest arrivals

  1. Frankfurter Allgemeine 5 Oct, 15:48 UTC
  2. Nationwide News Network 5 Oct, 14:49 UTC
  3. Kommersant 5 Oct, 11:30 UTC
  4. Le Figaro 5 Oct, 07:29 UTC
  5. CNA 5 Oct, 05:39 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Jamaica, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Singapore. Europe 4: France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
German, English, French, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Financial Times, 4 Oct 2026, 19:33 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 19:50 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 15:48 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
1.35, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 335 2.49 2 2 2 2 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 19:50 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 15:48 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States 5 Oct, 15:23 UTC
    Schneider Expands in AI With $23 Billion Acquisition
    +4 more articlesHide 4 more articles
    • Schneider’s Biggest Bet Spurs Mergers & Automations in Europe 5 Oct, 14:47 UTC
    • Schneider Electric to Acquire PTC in All-Cash Deal (Video) 5 Oct, 05:48 UTC
    • Schneider Electric to Acquire PTC for More Than $20 Billion 5 Oct, 05:11 UTC
    • Schneider Said to Near Deal to Buy PTC for More Than $20 Billion 4 Oct, 20:47 UTC
  • Nationwide News Network Jamaica 5 Oct, 14:49 UTC
    Schneider Electric to buy US software firm PTC in $22.6 billion deal

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • CNA Singapore 5 Oct, 05:39 UTC
    France's Schneider Electric confirms $22.6 billion deal to buy US software firm PTC
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    • Schneider Electric to buy US software firm PTC in $22.6 billion deal 5 Oct, 05:39 UTC

Europe 4 outlets

  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 5 Oct, 15:48 UTC
    Schneider Electric: Siemens-Rivale kündigt Milliardenakquisition an
  • Kommersant Russia 5 Oct, 11:30 UTC
    Schneider Electric покупает американского производителя ПО за $22,6 млрд
  • Le Figaro France 5 Oct, 07:29 UTC
    Schneider Electric acquiert l’américain PTC pour 22,6 milliards de dollars
  • Financial Times United Kingdom 4 Oct, 19:33 UTC
    Schneider Electric nears deal to buy software group PTC for $20bn
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