TRI

Thomson Reuters Corporation

A global information and technology company that supplies data, software, and news to professionals in law, tax, accounting, and media. Its well-known products include Westlaw, the legal research platform used by lawyers and law students, and the Reuters news agency, whose dispatches appear in outlets worldwide. The company was formed in 2008 when Canada's Thomson Corporation, a newspaper empire started by Roy Thomson in 1934, bought the British news agency Reuters, founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter. A fun detail: before telegraph lines were complete, Reuter used carrier pigeons to shuttle stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, beating competitors to the news.