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landmarks
This
chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline.
beginnings
1849 Paul Julius Reuter uses pigeons to fly stock
market prices between Aachen and Brussels
1851 Reuter opens office in City of London that transmits
stock market quotations between London and Paris via new
Calais-Dover cable
1862 alliance with US Associated Press
1863 Reuter builds telegram line between Wales and Ireland
1865 Reuters Telegram Company goes public
1865 opens office in Alexandria in 1865
1868 alliance with UK Central Press Agency
1868 opens office in Bombay
1868 first agreement with UK Press Association (PA)
to provide foreign news services
1870 Reuters operates joint news service with UK Press
Association until 1960s
1871 Reuters opens agency in Shanghai
1872 Reuters opens agencies in Far East
1874 Reuters opens agencies in South America
1883 Reuters uses 'column printer' to transmit messages
to London newspapers
1889 Julius de Reuter co-founds Imperial Bank of Persia
1915 Roderick Jones gains control of Reuters after death
of Herbert de Reuter
1923 Reuters uses radio to transmit news internationally
control
by newspapers
1925
UK Press Association takes majority stake in Reuters Ltd
1927 Reuters introduces teleprinter for sending information
to London newspapers
1939 Reuters moves corporate headquarters to 85 Fleet
Street, London
1941 Reuter Trust was formed to "safeguard the neutrality
and independence of Reuters"
1947 Australian Associated Press (AAP)
and New Zealand Press Association become co-owners with
UK Press Association
1964 Stockmaster financial information service launched
as joint venture with Ultronic Systems
1973 Reuter Monitor foreign exchange electronic marketplace
launched
1973 Michael Lipper founds Lipper Analytical Services
1981 Reuter Monitor Dealing Service launched
public
company
1984
Reuters floated as public company on London Stock Exchange
and US NASDAQ
1985 Reuters buys Visnews (renamed Reuters Television
1986 buys Instinet
1994 buys TIBCO (formerly Teknekron)
1994 buys Quotron
1994 buys UK radio broadcaster LNR
1994 launches Reuters Television service for financial
markets
1996 Island ECN founded
1996 Reuters sells most of LNR to DMG,
ITN and GWR
financial
data services
1998
buys Lipper Analytical Services (renamed Lipper Inc)
1998 takes stake in Datamonitor
1998 buys Agence Presse Medicale (APM)
1999 buys buys Hardwick Stafford Wright - supplier of
fund performance information to the UK industry
1999 buys BOPP ISB AG - Swiss provider of fund performance
and analysis
1999 buys majority stake in TowerGroup, US finance sector
IT specialists
2000 buys CAMRA fund portfolio information and analysis
service
2000 buys BT Alex Brown Investment Trusts data services
2000 takes major stake in US-based IT forecasters Yankee
Group for US$72.5m
2000 buys ORT corporate information service in France
2000 market capitalisation reaches £23bn
2001 floats part of Instinet
2001 buys Bridge Information Systems for US$275 million
2001 buys Diagram, French back-office services agency,
for US$68 million
2002 subsidiary Instinet buys rival Island ECN for US$508m
2002 capitalisation down to £1.4bn
2002 sells stake in LNR
2004 pays £97m for loss-making market data group
Moneyline Telerate from JP Morgan Chase unit One Equity
Partners
2005 buys Action Images sports photography agency
2006 pays US$41m for Application Networks (risk management
software firm)
2006 Reuters agrees to sell its 50% stake in Factiva to
joint venture partner Dow Jones
for US$160m
2007 agrees to acquire text analytics company ClearForest
2007 receives bid from Thomson
2008 becoms Thomson Reuters
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