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• Reuters Doubles Up On Opinion With Breakingviews Buy, Hires

  PaidContent - 2009-12-02

  It’s hard not to see the symmetry: two deals announced within 24 hours of each other, closed on the same day. McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) claims a pre-tax gain of $9 million from selling 80-year-old BusinessWeek to Bloomberg, while financial commentary start-up Breakingviews sells to Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) for...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Breakingviews, Branding, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Reuters, Staci D. Kramer

• Reuters to face 'lock-in' antitrust probe

  BNET - 2009-11-10

  Europe's competition watchdog has opened a full inquiry into the datafeed supply agreements between Thomson Reuters and its trading customers. The European Commission suspects the agreements might "lock" users, such as large banking groups, into working with the news and financial data company and breach antitrust rules. The Commission said...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Bloomberg L.P.

• If Zelnick Did It, BusinessWeek Edition; Keith Fox Out

  PaidContent - 2009-10-30

  So Thomson Reuters’ involvement in the BusinessWeek bid was even deeper than I first reported. Peter Kafka reports, based on a source, about ZelnickMedia’s plans if the PE firm would have been successful at buying the troubled magazine, including closing the print edition, dump all staff and replace with...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., McGraw-Hill Companies, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali

• Thomson Reuters Working As Partner With Zelnick Consortium on BusinessWeek Bid

  PaidContent - 2009-10-07

  Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) has publicly been saying that it has no interest in bidding for BusinessWeek, ever since the news that it was on the block came out. And that was true, until Bloomberg and later ZelnickMedia came into the picture: the multimedia business media giant is working...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Branding, Marketing, Rafat Ali

• OpenGate, Zuckerman Drop BusinessWeek Bid: Sources

  BNET - 2009-10-06

  By Anupreeta Das NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm OpenGate Capital and New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman have dropped out of the bidding for McGraw-Hill Cos Inc's BusinessWeek magazine, people familiar with the matter said, leaving Bloomberg LP and ZelnickMedia to vie for the money-losing asset. OpenGate...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., magazine, BusinessWeek, Magazine, McGraw-Hill Companies, ZelnickMedia Corp., Boston Properties Inc.

• BREAKFAST DEALS: China billion

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  Lunch isn't just for wimps. Check out LUNCH DEALS for more wheels and deals later today. China hasn't completely turned off Australia, with rumours of China Investment Corporation buying a $1 billion convertible note in Fortescue following its investment in Goodman Group. Also, Rio Tinto's Stern Hu is expected to...

  Tags: rumour, Rio Tinto, coal, Westpac Banking Corp.

• DTN News: Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army

  BNET - 2009-08-09

  DTN News: Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army*Never before have soldiers from so many states served in the same war theater*Source: DTN News / Global Research by Rick RozoffNSI News Source Info TORONTO, Canada - August 10, 2009: Two months before the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion...

  Tags: NATO

• US, Canadian-British firms dominate financial news market

  - 2008-03-03

  NEW YORK AFP — Financial information services, the subject of WTO trade complaints against China by the US and European Union, are dominated by US firm Bloomberg and Canadian-British Thomson-Reuters in the process of merging. The two heavyweights, each with a third share of the global market, are trailed...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., FINANCE, financial, Thomson Corp., Thomson Reuters Corp.

• Megamergers: coming soon to a data screen near you FINANCIAL

  - 2007-05-13

  'I have been in the industry for 23 years, " says one City broker "Back then screens would update in seconds, nowadays it is a matter of milliseconds." As the City caught up with the announcements that News Corporation was courting Dow Jones and that Thomson Financial was in talks...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Dow Jones & Company Inc., FINANCE, financial, News Corp., Thomson Corp., Thomson Reuters Corp.

• Down to the wire; Media deals.

  - 2007-05-12

  Dow Jones and Reuters are both on the block. Is Bloomberg next? TWO big deals in the offing promise vastly different levels of entertainment. Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for Dow Jones, a media group with assets including the Wall Street Journal and a ...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Dow Jones & Company Inc., FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, Thomson Corp., Thomson Reuters Corp.