thomson reuters

 

  • [87] In July 2016, Thomson Reuters announced it would be selling its Intellectual Property and Science business (including Web of Science, MarkMonitor and EndNote) to private
    equity funds;[88][34] the newly independent business is Clarivate Analytics.

  • [63] On March 22, it acquired BizActions, a digital newsletter and Web marketing providers for accounting firms in North America[64] On June 8, 2012, Apsmart, a London-based
    company specializing in design and development of mobile solutions, became the next organization to be acquired.

  • [67] In July, it also acquired Dofiscal[68] On July 26, 2012, Thomson Reuters announced acquisition of MarkMonitor, a San Francisco-based company specializing in internet
    brand protection software and services.

  • [60] In January 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired Dr Tax, which, according to its press release, was “Canada’s largest independently owned developer of income tax software for
    accounting firms and consumers.

  • According to the Financial Times, “the remedy proposed by the competition authorities will affect no more than $25m of the new Thomson Reuters group’s $13bn-plus combined
    revenues.

  • [47] In January 2010, Thomson Reuters acquired Discovery Logic[48] and subsequently, in February, Aegisoft LLC to improve their electronic trading capabilities by offering
    direct market access.

  • [73] On August 16, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired the foreign exchange options risk management technology provider SigmaGenix.

  • Practical Law Company has more than 750 employees, with principal operations in London and New York, and will be part of the Legal business of Thomson Reuters.

  • [59] On December 8, Thomson Reuters acquired Emochila, a website development firm founded by Chad Brubaker and Justin Curzi in the tax and accounting space, in order to further
    integrate its CS suite of products onto a cloud-based platform.

  • [72] On July 2, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired the foreign exchange options business of Tradeweb.

  • [89] In January 2017, Thomson Reuters acquired REDI allowing Thomson Reuters to incorporate an advanced, cross-asset execution management system (EMS) into its buy-side trading
    capabilities and deliver integrated trading workflow solutions[buzzword] to the buy-side community.

  • [66] On July 10, 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired FX Alliance Inc, an independent provider of electronic foreign exchange trading services to corporations and asset managers.

  • [97] In October 2018, Thomson Reuters announced the future acquisition of Integration Point, an international leader in global trade management (GTM) operations.

  • [85] In September 2015, Thomson Reuters acquired Business Integrity Ltd.[86] In April 2016, Thomson Reuters acquired Wm Reuters Foreign Exchange benchmarks from State Street
    Corporation.

  • In December 2012, the European Commission adopted a decision that renders legally binding the commitments offered by Thomson Reuters to create a new licence (“ERL”) allowing
    customers, for a monthly fee, to use Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in applications for data sourced from Thomson Reuters’ real time consolidated datafeed competitors to which they have moved.

  • [98] In November 2019, the company acquired global legal market research analyst firm Acritas.

  • The deal will fund the Reuters business for the next 30 years.

  • [50] In May 2010, it acquired Point Carbon A/S, a Norwegian company that provides news and trading analytics for the energy and environmental markets.

  • [74] On August 18, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired a majority stake in Omnesys Technologies[75] and acquired completely the company on September 16, 2013 [76] In August, it
    also acquired WeComply.

  • [99][100] In April 2022, Thomson Reuters acquired Gestta Technology Ltda, an accounting automation software, formerly part of the Redspark Group.

  • [69] On January 3, 2013, Thomson announced that it was to acquire Practical Law Company, the London-based provider of practical legal know-how and workflow tools to law firms
    and corporate law departments.

  • [91][92][93] In January 2018, Thomson Reuters announced it was divesting its financial and risk unit to U.S. private equity firm, the Blackstone Group.

  • [11] Reuters began to grow rapidly in the 1980s, widening the range of its business products and expanding its global reporting network for media, financial and economic services:
    key product launches included Equities 2000 (1987), Dealing 2000-2 (1992), Business Briefing (1994), Reuters Television for the financial markets (1994), 3000 Series (1996) and the Reuters 3000 Xtra service (1999).

  • [30][31][32] The company in 2018 was organized around four divisions: Legal, Reuters News Agency, Tax & Accounting, and Government.

  • [5][6] Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation’s purchase of the British company Reuters Group in April 2008[7] and is majority owned by The Woodbridge Company,
    a holding company for the Thomson family.

  • [17] Market position and Thomson Reuters merger antitrust review[edit] Thomson Reuters Building as seen from Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan The Thomson-Reuters merger
    transaction was reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice and by the European Commission.

  • [103][104] In February 2020, a group of Thomson Reuters shareholders criticized the company’s involvement with ICE for immigrant tracking.

  • The company at this time was known as the International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL).

  • [24] Reuters purchase process[edit] New York building as seen from Times Square Historically, no single individual has been permitted to own more than 15% of Reuters, under
    the first of the Reuters Principles, which states, “Reuters shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group or faction.

  • [79] On October 23, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired Entagen, acquiring the Cortellis family of products for drug pipeline, deals, patents, and company content.

  • [11] Reuters Group[edit] Main article: Reuters Group The company was founded by Paul Julius Reuter in 1851 in London as a business transmitting stock market quotations.

  • “[25] However, that restriction was waived for the purchase by Thomson, whose family holding company, the Woodbridge Company currently owns 53% of the enlarged business.

  • [43] It also bought the Abacus software business from Deloitte, a provider of corporate taxation software for the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Hong Kong,
    as well as Indirect Tax Reporting software for 20 E.U.

  • [62] In February, the company acquired RedEgg, a provider of media intelligence solutions[buzzword] for public relations and marketing professionals.

  • [83] In October 2014, Thomson Reuters sold its PE/VC media assets (including PEHub and Venture Capital Journal) to UCG.

  • [45] In November, The Tax & Accounting business acquired Sabrix, Inc, a global provider of transaction tax management software applications and related services.

  • Following the death of Thomson, the company withdrew from national newspapers and broadcast media, selling the Times, the Sunday Times to Rupert Murdoch’s News International
    in 1981 and instead moved into publishing, buying Sweet & Maxwell in 1988.

 

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