| TRI Description: Thomson Reuters Corporation provides news and information for professional markets worldwide. The company sells electronic content and services to professionals primarily on a subscription basis. It operates through three business units: Financial & Risk, Legal, and Tax & Accounting. The Financial & Risk business unit offers news, information and analytics, enabling transactions and connecting communities of trading, investment, financial, and corporate professionals, as well as regulatory and operational risk management solutions. The Legal business unit provides critical online and print information, decision tools, and software and services to support legal, investigation, business, and government professionals. The Tax & Accounting business unit offers integrated tax compliance and accounting information, software, and services for professionals in accounting firms, corporations, law firms, and government. The company also provides intellectual property and scientific information, and decision support tools and services that enable governments, academia, publishers, corporations, and law firms to discover, protect, and commercialize new ideas and brands. In addition, it operates Reuters, which provides real-time multimedia news and information services to newspapers, television and cable networks, radio stations, and Websites. The company was formerly known as The Thomson Corporation and changed its name to Thomson Reuters Corporation in April 2008. Thomson Reuters Corporation was founded in 1799 and is headquartered in New York, New York. |
