The Morning Lowdown 01-19-11
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» Ad tech firms Cross Commerce MediaClickable, MediaMath, and TARGUSinfo are forming the Consortium for Accountable Advertising,… Read more »
Reuters America Gets News Service Deep Into Aggregating
As part of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) expansion into more general news service in addition to its financial reports, the company has launch… Read more »
Reuters’ Bowen Defects To Dow Jones To Head Digital Business
Alisa Bowen, who has worked on overhauling Reuters’ consumer business, is heading to Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) to run the company’s digital busi… Read more »
Chase Carey Likes MySpace So Much He’s Willing To Sell It
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) COO Chase Carey already expressed frustration over the performance MySpace on the conglomerate’s last earnings call e… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.19.10
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» If the kind of checkbook journalism employed by Nick Denton at Gawker Media “works” — in the sense that it produces stories th… Read more »
Reuters Buys Analytics Site Highline Financial
Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has acquired Highline Financial, a site that provides analytics about banking industry trends. The news service has made… Read more »
Financial Meltdown Fades, Thomson Reuters’ Markets Unit Rises (Slightly)
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With the dust from the global financial meltdown two years settled, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) posted positive earnings and revenue gains,… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Microsoft’s Tag; Zynga’s Value; Garmin Phones; T-Mobile Tether
– Microsoft’s 2-D barcodes: Microsoft’s Tag product, which uses 2-D barcode technology in marketing campaigns, says 1 billion Tags have bee… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.19.10
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» Tribune Company’s board appears to have had enough and is preparing to ask CEO Randy Michaels to step down. The move follows la… Read more »
Reuters To Roll Out Online Video Series; ‘Rocketboom’ Meets ‘Newshour’
As part of its continuing efforts to build out its multimedia strategy, Reuters.com is developing a series of online video programming for i… Read more »
Apple Hits Nokia Closer To Home With Patent Fight
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is doubling down in its patent fight against Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and is hitting Nokia a little closer to home by expanding… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.24.10
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» Was it Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) or bad business decisions that busted Blockbuster? (NYSE: BBI) Perhaps it was online video. [NewTee… Read more »
Thomson Reuters Rolls Out Marketing Program For Market Info Service
Arguing that all the current desktop data and news offerings available to financial companies are inadequate, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is… Read more »
Reuters Taps Slate’s James Ledbetter As Website Editor
Two months after the Slate Group folded its business news site The Big Money, its former editor-in-chief James Ledbetter is heading to Reute… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.25.10
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» The month-long battle between Random House and literary agent Andrew Wylie seems to be over. The publisher is claiming victory,… Read more »
Taking Aim At Bloomberg, Reuters Shifts Credit News Reporting To IFR Unit
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping to step up its battle against Bloomberg by handing over responsibility for credit news reporting to it… Read more »
Industry Moves: Brightcove Asia-Pac, Thomson Reuters Board, DDB Marketer
– Brightcove: The web video company is hiring Citrix’s Asia-Pacific VP to the same post in its own company”. It’s doubled its customer base… Read more »
Thomson Reuters’ Profit, Revs Fall; Glocer Remains Upbeat About Q3
Challenges remained in Thomson Reuters’ markets division in Q2, as the unit’s revenue was down 4 percent while its profits dropped 25 percen… Read more »
Reuters Execs Get Expanded Digital Media Roles
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Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has promoted three media execs this week to reflect the constant changes and challenges for news organizations in the di… Read more »
Audio Interview: Reuters’ iPad Users Eat Three Times As Much Business News
So, CEOs will be wandering around, toting iPads with critical business info on, right? Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) think so…
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Reuters Gives Multimedia Duties To EMEA Managing Editor
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is shuffling two of it senior editors after moving one to focus on multimedia output alongside Chris Cramer.
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Reuters Buys Brazilian Legal Publisher Revista dos Tribunais
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Like a lot of companies investing in the BRIC countries lately, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is looking to build up its presence in Brazil wi… Read more »
Reuters Introduces Online VOD Platform Aimed At Subscribers
After spending much of the past year focusing its multimedia products at consumers, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) will introduce an on-demand,… Read more »
‘Tentative Recovery’ Eases Thomson Reuters’ Falling Profits
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) CEO Tom Glocer pointed to the “tentative recovery” as helping fuel momentum for the company in the past quarter,… Read more »
Reuters.co.uk Revamps To Flutter Eyelashes At Advertisers
Four months after redesigning its .com consumer website with a cleaner, more advertiser-friendly look, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) will get around t… Read more »
WSJ Puts High Price On iPad App Subs
The app announcements have been rolling out all morning in anticipation of tomorrow’s iPad release. Among the initial iPad apps now in Apple… Read more »
Reuters Begins Selling New Customized Financial Data, Graphics Service To Newspapers
As major newspaper publishers have seen profits return and ad declines slow a bit, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping that the time is right to s… Read more »
@ Media Summit: The Medium Isn’t The Message; The Brand Is
One of the favorite sports of most media conferences these days involves trotting out Wired editor Chris Anderson’s “freemium” idea — which… Read more »
Video @ paidContent 2010: Thomson Reuters’ Wenig: Why M&A May Bounce Back By Year-End
Reuters (NYSE: TRI) makes most of its money in B2B, but the company is also trying to prove that it can also build revenues on the consumer… Read more »
Nicholas Wheeler Steps Down As MD Of ITN On
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Nicholas Wheeler is stepping down from his position as the managing director of ITN On, the multi-platform division of news supplier ITN, re… Read more »
Corrected: Thomson Reuters Market Division Pulls Down Profits
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The media segment in Thomson Reuters’ Q4 results can be seen as a microcosm of the segment’s performance for the overall year. Both full-yea… Read more »
@pc2010: ‘Paid Services’ Coming To Reuters.com
Highlights from WSJ.com managing editor Kevin Delaney’s conversation with Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) Markets CEO Devin Wenig (who, by the w… Read more »
Reuters Partners With Video Aggregator NDN On Ad-Sharing Deal
While most media companies are exploring ways to build subscription revenues to replace ad dollars, Reuters is looking in the opposite direc… Read more »
Video From DLD: Tom Glocer on His Inner Geekery; Logic on BreakingViews Acquisition
At DLD earlier this week, Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), gave the rest of the world a peek into what we know he really is:… Read more »
Thomson Reuters Buys Analytics Firm Discovery Logic
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has acquired scientific analytics software provider Discovery Logic as the company looks to expand its content a… Read more »
Thomson Reuters Laying Off 240 Across Legal Publishing Division
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is laying off 240 staffers at its legal publishing division, Dow Jones reported. The company’s legal division in… Read more »
Ex-BusinessWeek EIC Adler Joins Thomson Reuters
Stephen J. Adler, who resigned his post as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek shortly after the magazine’s sale to Bloomberg, is joining Thoms… Read more »
Reuters Doubles Up On Opinion With Breakingviews Buy, Hires
Updated: 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: MH… Read more »
Thomson Reuters Dips In Q3, But ‘We’re Past The Bottom’
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Sales in Thomson Reuters’ media operations were dented, as the group saw top-line operating profit tumble 32 percent to $378 million on four… Read more »
Thomson Reuters To Buy Breakingviews For About $18 Million
Updated: Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) is buying business commentary service Breakingviews.com, as part of its expansion into financial comme… Read more »
