 By the late 1990s, Thomson, in keeping with its growing emphasis on electronic publishing, snapped up Global Audience Providers, and created keysnews.com and floridakeys.com to serve the county's growing number of absentee readers and tourists.Both businesses were to be affiliated with the "Key West Citizen" and managed from Key West.Late in 1998, Thomson bought the independent weekly "Solares Hill", which was founded in 1976.