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Thomson Reuters Plans ‘Immediate Reduction In Headcount’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 14 May 2008 04:09 PM PST

Exactly a year after the merger was announced, Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) is finally confirming some major job losses, as part of the “synergies” hinted at the time of the…

Thomson Reuters and RIM Launch $150 Million Mobile App Fund - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 12 May 2008 08:44 AM PST

In a strange but logical pairing, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), the makers of Blackberry, along with media giant Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN), is launching a $150 million venture capital fund that…

Industry Moves: Thomson Reuters Appoints McDonough New Ad Sales Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 12 May 2008 04:00 AM PST

Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) has appointed Riley McDonough SVP, GM and director of advertising sales, Americas, for the company’s consumer publishing business. He will report to Alisa Bowen, who leads…

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Reuters Media Shake-Up: Clearer Picture, ‘Not A Revolution’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 May 2008 07:49 AM PST

A clearer picture has emerged of senior-level changes in Reuters’ Media division, as the unit retains its name but undergoes some shake-ups in the wake of the Thomson (NYSE: TOC)…

Earnings: Thomson Reuters Revs Up 12 Percent; Reuters Revs Up 13 Percent - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 01 May 2008 06:39 AM PST

For its first quarter after the merger, Thomson (NYSE: TOC) Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) reported Q1 revenue of $3.3 billion a 12 percent year-over-year increase. Net income declined to $192 million…

Thomson Reuters’ Ethics Code: Blogging’s OK, Just Don’t Talk To Competitors - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 27 Apr 2008 04:58 PM PST

Staff of the new Thomson-Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) are forbidden from using blogs for internal communications and for liaising with co-workers. The merged news agency produced a new a code of…

Glocer: I May Have Drunk the Kool-Aid, But it Sure Tastes Good - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Apr 2008 10:16 PM PST

And no, we’re not talking about Facebook or Ning here. This is about one of the biggest and oldest business media companies in the world. Line of the week goes…

Thomson Reuters Day One: TRI.L Starts To Sing In London - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Apr 2008 12:43 AM PST

Nobody told *Google* Finance (it still doesn’t have the updated stock ticker), but Thomson Reuters‘ new TRIL.L listing started trading on the London Stock Exchange at 8am GMT, after their…

Updated: Thomson Reuters Day One: Combined Company, New Logo - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 16 Apr 2008 05:47 PM PST

The biggest business media company in the world is being born today (April 17th, which it is in Asia now), as Thomson Reuters. The new company, with headquarters in New…

Thomson-Reuters Ticker Switch Happens Next Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 08 Apr 2008 02:26 PM PST

Thomson (NYSE: TOC) will change its name and ticker symbols once its $16.2 billion acquisition of Reuters Group (NSDQ: RTRSY) closes on April 17. The new entity will have two…

Industry Moves: Reuters Media’s GM Stephen Smyth Leaving; More Restructuring Coming? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Apr 2008 03:44 PM PST

Stephen Smyth, the GM and SVP of Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) Media in U.S., is leaving the company this summer, we have learned, and confirmed from the company. He has been…

Thomson, Reuters Shareholders Approve Merger - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 26 Mar 2008 07:42 AM PST

Shareholders have given Thomson’s (NYSE: TOC) acquisition of Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) the nod, Reuters reported. The Canadian financial media company says that nearly 99 percent of the shareholders in Toronto…

Reuters Acquires Minority Stake in Chinese Financial Information Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Pearl Research - Wed 19 Mar 2008 08:01 AM PST

Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) has acquired a minority stake in ChinaWeb, the parent company of Chinese financial information portal Hexun. Founded in 1996, Hexun is now one of China’s largest financial…

Earnings: Reuters’ 07 Profit Dips On Home Stretch To Thomson Merger - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 06 Mar 2008 02:25 AM PST

Reuters’ (NSDQ: RTRSY) 2007 full-year pre-tax profit fell 13 percent to £273 million ($542 million) - attributed to less income from disposals than last year, when it sold its Factiva…

Thomson-Reuters Merger Expected To Close April 17 - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 29 Feb 2008 10:00 AM PST

An era will come to an end on April 17th, when Thomson’s (NYSE: TOC) takeover of Reuters Group (NSDQ: RTRSY) is expected to close. The two companies have received all…

Updated: EC Approves Thomson-Reuters With Conditions; DOJ Concurs; Close Expected In April - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 19 Feb 2008 08:02 AM PST

On schedule, the European Commission has approved the merger of Thomson (NYSE: TOC) and Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) (technically the former is buying the latter), provided the companies meet certain competition…

Reuters To Sell Guardian’s Online Inventory In U.S. - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 11 Feb 2008 01:00 AM PST

Guardian, which has a big chunk of its website traffic coming from U.S. but has always had a hard time building out a sales infrastructure here and monitizing it, has…

Thomson To Overshadow Reuters Brand After A Rethink - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 05 Feb 2008 10:13 AM PST

Thomson (NYSE: TOC), which is in the process of buying info giant Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY), has done a rethink on using the Reuters branding for all their merged market data…

@ SIIA: Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters: Consumer Media Ill-Suited For Public Markets - 3 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 30 Jan 2008 08:37 AM PST

In his keynote to the SIIA conference, Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) CEO Tom Glocer promised he wasn’t just there to deliver a commercial for the planned merger with Thomson (NYSE: TOC).…

Broadband Content Bits: MTVN; YouNewsTV; Reuters-Newscom; YouTube - 2 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 25 Jan 2008 02:23 PM PST

-- MTVN’s LogoOnline unveils vlogs: MTVN’s (NYSE: VIA) LogoOnline has created 15 video blogs that the MTVN unit plans to run on its federated sites and distribution network, which includes…

Reuters CEO Confident Of Takeover Going Through - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 25 Jan 2008 01:05 PM PST

Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) speaks to Reuters CEO on the looming recession, and its effect on Reuters, and the merger with Thomson (NYSE: TOC) (video below: RSS readers will have to…

Reuters’ Indian Media Joint Venture Headed For A Split? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Jan 2008 12:30 PM PST

Well, the rumor has been around for a while now - I first heard about it in December, but was unable to confirm it; “Why break off a successful partnership?”…

Reuters, Thomson Predict Q2 Close For Merger; DOJ Decision Delayed - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Jan 2008 09:22 AM PST

Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) and Thomson (NYSE: TOC) issued a joint statement today saying the $17 billion merger deal should receive regulatory clearance early in Q2 this year, a slight delay…

Pluck on The Block; Sale Could Fetch Around $75 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 07 Jan 2008 12:21 PM PST

Social media and syndication technology firm Pluck is on the block, we have learned. The company hopes to get around $75 million, though that sounds high judging its business from…

Reuters In Unusual Deal With IHT; Co-Branded Business Section and Rev Share on Ads; NYT Possible? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 10 Dec 2007 12:43 AM PST

Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) has done an unusual deal with International Herald Tribune (owned by the New York Times), under which the two would launch a co-branded daily online and print…