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                                                                   EXHIBIT 99.8

MEMORANDUM - THOMSON LEGAL & REGULATORY INTERNAL

TO:         THOMSON LEGAL & REGULATORY EMPLOYEES

FROM:       ROY M. MARTIN, JR.
            PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
            THE DIALOG CORPORATION

DATE:       AUGUST 7, 2001

SUBJECT:    THE THOMSON CORPORATION SIGNS AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE THE
            NEWSEDGE CORPORATION

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Key goals of Thomson Legal & Regulatory include providing the broadest and most
powerful e-information solutions to the legal, regulatory and professional
market, and enhancing its position in the business news and corporate market
segments.

Today, I am pleased to announce that The Thomson Corporation has signed a
definitive agreement to acquire the publicly held NewsEdge Corporation, a
leading real-time news and current awareness provider in the online business
information market. Under the terms of the agreement, Thomson will make a cash
tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of NewsEdge common stock. The
acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2001.

The acquisition of NewsEdge will add an important new dimension to existing
Thomson Legal & Regulatory news and current awareness product offerings.
NewsEdge's unique strength in developing enterprise content and decision-support
solutions helps its customers more easily navigate and unlock the optimal value
of all of their information assets. NewsEdge products also complement core
Thomson Legal & Regulatory primary and secondary legal and regulatory products
and services.

With 2000 revenues of $70.9 million, NewsEdge is a global provider of content
solutions and electronic publishing technologies for business, and provides
real-time news and information products and services to approximately 1,500
corporations and professional services firms worldwide. NewsEdge employs more
than 280 people in 16 offices in eight countries around the world, with
approximately 200 of the employees based at its Burlington, Mass., headquarters.

NewsEdge will operate as a stand-alone business within Thomson Legal &
Regulatory, and will be aligned with The Dialog Corporation. The core senior
management team of NewsEdge will remain with the company, and NewsEdge President
and CEO Clifford Pollan will report to me.

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Please join me in welcoming our new NewsEdge colleagues and in wishing them
great success as part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory and Dialog.

THIS COMMUNICATION IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN
OFFER TO PURCHASE SHARES OF NEWSEDGE OR A SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. WE
URGE ALL INVESTORS AND SECURITY-HOLDERS OF NEWSEDGE TO READ THOMSON'S TENDER
OFFER STATEMENT AND NEWSEDGE'S SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT WHEN THEY
ARE FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION AS THEY BECOME
AVAILABLE.THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION FREE AT WWW.SEC.GOV.