Reuters Group has around 200 news bureaus around the globe, making it the world's largest international news agency.
It's hardly surprising, though, that the latest chief in that state of affairs is Tom Glocer , the 48-year old CEO of Reuters Group .
The companies include Reuters Group (nasdaq: RTRSY - news - people ), and IHS Inc (nyse: IHS - news - people ).
Glocer, the first American and non-journalist to hold the top post at Reuters Group, is credited by analysts with having shaped the company up to compete with larger rival Bloomberg by improving the company's trading products.
Though the combination still needs to squeeze past regulators in order to become official, Thomson appears to have, crucially, won the approval of Reuters Group's trustees, who have the power the veto any takeover of the 156-year-old company.
Glocer, the first American and non-journalist to hold the top post at Reuters Group (nasdaq: RTRSY - news - people ), is credited by analysts with having shaped the company up to compete with larger rival Bloomberg by improving the company's trading products.
According to Reuters, the pirate group holding the Delanne couple were also demanding the release of their compatriots held in France.
The Vice President for Tissot, the affordable luxury watch brand owned by the Swatch Group, told Reuters in an interview last week that the company will make fewer watches to save on production costs rather than pass higher prices into clients.
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Times Now, a joint venture between Reuters and the Times of India Group, has an ex-NDTV staffer as editor-in-chief.
Reuters yesterday reported about about a group of JPMorgan Chase shareholders who have issued a proposal asking the Board of JPM to consider breaking up the bank in order to boost shareholder value.
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WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged major oil companies to raise production of home heating oil as soon as possible to avoid supply shortages in the Northeast this autumn and winter.
KONG, July 9 (Reuters) - Chinese meat processor China Yurun Food Group Ltd said founder Zhu Yicai has resigned as chairman with immediate effect but will become honorary chairman and a senior advisor, the latest management reshuffle by a Chinese company.
Perhaps more worryingly than the ceasefire breach in Gaza, Palestinian officials told Reuters news agency this week that Hizbullah, an Islamist group based in Lebanon and backed by Syria and Iran, was trying to recruit suicide bombers to destroy the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire.
Reuters news agency quoted a spokesman for the main Syrian rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, as saying al-Nusra had overrun state security and military intelligence compounds in al-Shaddada.
All these Thomson Reuters employees were revealed in a short data harvest by my working group along with hundreds of thousands of other iPad 3G customers.
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However, the head of the group's negotiation team, Sumlut Gam, told Reuters the announcement was "good to hear" but that they would wait to see what happens on Saturday.
Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (nasdaq: NDAQ - news - people ) is said to be exploring the purchase of Instinet Group , the electronic exchange currently majority-owned by Reuters PLC .
Whatever the conclusion of this saga, CVC (the private equity group that controls Formula One Group), NewsCorp, Carlos Slim Helu, and Ferrari declined to comment, reported Reuters.
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But the news agency Reuters says it has seen a draft SNC communique being discussed in Cairo which demonstrates an apparent softening in the group's stance.
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