Acquisitions
In April 2007, then President of Search and Content Technologies Gerry Campbell led the Thomson Reuters acquisition of ClearForest. ClearForest was founded in 1998 with a headquarters just outside of Boston and a development office in Israel near Tel Aviv. It now commercializes its services under the names Calais, OpenCalais, and OneCalais.
In July 2009 Thomson Reuters acquired Streamlogics. Founded in 1999, Streamlogics is a provider of customizable, high volume, real time data mining solutions for hundreds of enterprises across several verticals including financial services, technology and health care/life sciences. Streamlogics' webcasting solutions are used for training and certification, marketing and lead generation, and corporate communications.
In August 2009 Thomson Reuters bought Vhayu Technologies. Vhayu is a provider of tick data services, and Thomson Reuters had been distributing its Velocity product under the Reuters Tick Capture Engine label for the four years prior to the acquisition.
On September 21, 2009, Thomson Reuters bought Hugin Group, the European IR and PR distribution group, from NYSE Euronext. Terms have not been disclosed, but it has been reported in Danish newspapers that the price was between €40 million and €42m.
In September 2009, Thomson Reuters bought the Abacus software business from Deloitte, a provider of corporate taxation software for the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, as well as Indirect Tax Reporting software for 20 E.U. countries. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
In November 2009 The Tax & Accounting business acquired Sabrix, Inc, a global provider of transaction tax management software applications and related services.
In February 2010 Thomson Reuters acquired Aegisoft LLC to improve their electronic trading capabilities by offering direct market access.
In May 2010 Thomson Reuters acquired Point Carbon A/S, a Norwegian company that provides news and trading analytics for the energy and environmental markets.
In October 2010, Thomson Reuters acquired Serengeti Law, a matter management and ebilling system.
In November 2010, Thomson Reuters acquired the legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider Pangea3. Pangea3 serves corporate legal departments and law firms worldwide. Financial Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In November 2010, Thomson Reuters acquired the banking data and analytic provider Highline Financial, and GeneGo, a supplier of systems biology databases, software and services.
In August 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired GFMS.
In December 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired Emochila, a website development firm in the tax and accounting space, in order to further integrate its CS suite of products onto a cloud-based platform.
In January 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired Dr Tax, Canada’s largest independently owned developer of income tax software for accounting firms and consumers.
In February 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired RedEgg, a provider of media intelligence solutions for public relations and marketing professionals.
On 8 June 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired Apsmart, a London-based company specializing in design and development of mobile solutions.
On 10 July 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired FX Alliance Inc, an independent provider of electronic foreign exchange trading solutions to corporations and asset managers.
On 26 July 2012, Thomson Reuters announced acquisition of MarkMonitor, a San Francisco-based company specializing in internet brand protection software and services.
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