Tameka Kee
Sep 20, 2009 12:30 PM
Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) is closer to a deal to buy U.K.-based financial news site Breakingviews.com, according to The Sunday Times. The Times cites unidentified sources inside Thomson Reuters that put the deal price at about $14 million (£10 million). News that the two companies were first negotiating a sale…
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Patrick Smith
Nov 12, 2008 10:57 AM
Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) is beginning to reap the benefits of one of the biggest company mergers of recent years, today reporting eight percent better Q3 revenues of $3.3 billion (£2.2 billion), with operating profit up 17 percent to $676 million (£414 million). In the first full quarter since the…
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Patrick Smith
Oct 22, 2008 5:19 AM
Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) has promised to “relentlessly” cut costs as the global economy begins to bite its clients’ businesses and, with them, its own. Devin Wenig, CEO of the markets division that includes Reuters Media and Reuters.com, yesterday told staff, in a frank internal memo obtained by paidContent:UK: “Many…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 3, 2008 4:21 AM
Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) today expanded its Reuters Deals channel to add more third-party and blog content plus more financial data tools. New suppliers of syndicated content to reuters.com/deals and uk.reuters.com/deals include peHub, The Deal, paidContent.org, Seeking Alpha and blogs from Reuters itself; content from regular publishers comes from European…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 24, 2008 7:55 PM
This has been brought up many times before, and Reuters has even said it that it wants to expand its TV/video activities, though it has denied any attempt to launch a linear TV channel over the years. Now, The Telegraph is reporting that it is preparing to launch a business…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 17, 2008 4:24 AM
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) says Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) has agreed not to make UK newsroom staff compulsarily redundant, following the company’s formation in April. The newswire planned to “eliminate” 140 of its 2,500 editorial staff globally. The NUJ had been negotiating to ensure only voluntary redundancies. It…
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Robert Andrews
May 19, 2008 4:25 AM
Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) will “eliminate” around 140 journalist posts around the world by year’s end, we have confirmed. Around half the posts will go from Europe, where overlap is greatest; the remainder will be in the rest of the world, and a consultation process is just beginning. Reuters News…
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Robert Andrews
May 14, 2008 5:53 PM
Exactly a year after the merger was confirmed, Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) is all-set to confirm the detail of some major job losses, as part of the “synergies” hinted at the time of the deal. Markets CEO Devin Wenig (Reuters’ former COO) wrote in a staff email (via Guardian) the…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 17, 2008 2:43 AM
Nobody told Google (NSDQ: GOOG) 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 £8.7 billion ($17.1 billion) merger - and immediately fell 80p. The stock recovered after falling from the opening…
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