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The Motley Fool May 4, 2004 Rich Smith	Thomson's Flip Side Thomson's earnings, free cash flow, and valuation tell the full story.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2004 Rich Smith	Thomson's Patently Good Buy Thomson will purchase Information Holdings, a provider of intellectual property information. The acquisition would significantly boost Thomson's scientific and health-care business.
The Motley Fool February 18, 2005 Rich Smith	Europe Is Different Apparently, the fact that publisher Reed Elsevier is both growing, and growing more profitable, at slower rates than its Canadian nemesis does not matter as much to the Europeans as the fact that Reed Elsevier is growing at all.
Information Today November 6, 2000 Paula J. Hane	Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp...
The Motley Fool April 6, 2004 Rich Smith	Thomson Jilts Reuters Thomson teams up with MarketWatch for a new financial news service.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2004 Rich Smith	Thomson Closes the Books The publisher successfully unloads its print media unit for a very nice price. Shareholders should be smiling.
Information Today April 30, 2001 Richard Poynder	The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists?
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint	Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker...
The Motley Fool June 14, 2004 Rich Smith	Thomson's Book Fair Thomson tries again to sell off its print media unit.
Information Today September 25, 2000 Barbara Quint	Thomson's Gale Group Acquires K.G. Saur from Reed Elsevier Thomson continues its empire-building with another acquisition. This time Thomson's Gale Group has purchased K.G. Saur, the prominent German publisher of biographical and other scholarly reference books, from Reed Elsevier...
Information Today June 24, 2002 Marydee Ojala	Thomson Corp. Now Listed on the New York Stock Exchange On June 11, Thomson Corp. was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), one of the largest companies added to that market this year. The lead underwriters were Merrill Lynch & Co. and Morgan Stanley.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2007 Rich Duprey	Wiley Books a Profit The book publisher reports slightly lower earnings as revenues rise. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2005 Rich Smith	Crunching the Data Crunchers Have the info-theft hackers given us any bargains in the stock market? Here is a bargain evaluation for four data companies recently affected by hackers.
The Motley Fool November 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Thomson Prints Profits The Canadian megapublisher offers high quality at full price.
Information Today May 14, 2007	The Thomson Corp. in Talks to Acquire Reuters--Developing Story The Thomson Corp. said it is in talks to acquire Reuters for about $17.6 billion.
Information Today August 13, 2001 Paula J. Hane	Thomson to Acquire NewsEdge In yet another strong sign of consolidation in the information industry, Thomson Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the NewsEdge Corp. for approximately $43 million...
Information Today November 29, 2004 Paula J. Hane	Thomson Announces New Pharma Research Tool The Thomson Corp. is using the Online Information exhibition in London for the official launch of its new integrated research tool for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Information Today April 2003	The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc.
Information Today July 31, 2014	LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer Share Legal Businesses LexisNexis will acquire the Canadian legal publishing business of Wolters Kluwer, which has about 50 employees, in order to extend its product portfolio to Canadian customers.
The Motley Fool May 6, 2004 Rich Smith	MarketWatch Returns to Life Financial news reporter MarketWatch.com's future looks much brighter than its past.
Information Today September 11, 2006 Barbara Quint	ScholarOne Publishing Software Goes to Thomson Scientific With its recently announced acquisition of ScholarOne, the Thomson Scientific and Healthcare Group seems to have set a strategy of intercepting scholarly content at an early stage of maturation in the research-publishing process.
Information Today June 12, 2000 Paula J. Hane	Thomson Corp. to Acquire Primark Just a few months after purchasing Dialog Information Services, Thomson Corp. has shown that it's still determined to add to its electronic information resources via acquisition. The company has announced a merger agreement under which Thomson will acquire Primark Corp.
Information Today April 21, 2008	New Combined Company--Thomson Reuters The Thomson Corp. has completed its acquisition of Reuters Group, PLC, forming Thomson Reuters, a provider of "intelligent information" for businesses and professionals in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare, and media markets.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2004 Rich Smith	Reed Elsevier's Fine Print European publisher illustrates how pro forma accounting knows no borders.
Information Today February 7, 2005 Marydee Ojala	Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News Parent company Thomson Corp.'s management looked at the various product lines within Dialog and decided they fell into two separate areas.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Thomson Publishes Unless cash generation surged in the fourth-quarter, 2005 will probably have to go down in the record books as a pretty weak year for Thomson. Investors, take note.
Information Today April 7, 2003 Barbara Quint	Thomson Learning Moves into Coursepack Market Two subsidiaries of Thomson Learning, Gale Group and South-Western, have announced a marketing launch of electronic coursepacks for the academic market.
Information Today December 14, 2009 Katherine Allen	Springer Sold to Private Equity Firms EQT and GIC The German company is the world's second-largest scientific, technical, and medical publisher after Reed Elsevier and was formed in 2003 by the merger of Kluwer Academic Publishers and Bertelsmann Springer.
Information Today November 27, 2006 Rebecca Lenzini	Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing Continuing the trend toward consolidation in the scholarly publishing community, John Wiley & Sons announced on Nov. 17, 2006, that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the outstanding shares of Blackwell Publishing.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Phil Wohl	Scholastic Must Hit the Books The company must leverage its growth segment-- educational publishing-- before considering them as an investment.
Information Today July 23, 2007	Houghton Mifflin to Acquire Harcourt Divisions from Reed Elsevier The sale represents the completion of Reed Elsevier's plan, which it announced in February, to sell off its entire Harcourt Education division. Investors, take note.
Information Today November 4, 2002 Richard Poynder	Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer has announced the sale of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven for approximately $591 million.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2005 Rich Smith	No Rest for the Wicked ChoicePoint's breach alone might not have tipped the scales, but if many other businesses are being ransacked as well, and most importantly, if the privacy of actual senators is now at risk, I think it's safe to say that regulation is on its way.
Information Today November 25, 2002 Barbara Quint	Tierney Resignation Sparks Management Shift at Thomson With Patrick Tierney's announced departure, Richard Harrington, Thomson's president and CEO, took the opportunity to shift the top executives in three of the four major groups that compose the giant corporation.
Information Today October 22, 2012	Thomson Reuters Adds Web of Science Content to Patent Prior Art Research Tools Access to patent content, scientific journals, conference proceedings, business data, and news information are critical in the quest to determine if an idea is unique and has potential for further development. Thomson Innovation enhancements make this quest much easier.
Information Today July 21, 2015	LexisNexis' U.K. Company Hopes to Acquire Legal Publisher LexisNexis U.K. intends to acquire Jordan Publishing Ltd., which is also U.K.-based, after regulatory review and other customary conditions are approved.
Information Today February 25, 2008 Marydee Ojala	Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis.
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Gary Weiss	NYSE: How Deep Will Reform Run? Revamping the way the Big Board works may not happen on John Reed's watch.
Information Today May 21, 2007 Barbara Quint	Thomson Learning and Gale Under New Management Following Sale Apax Partners and OMERS Capital partners plan to keep the company intact, rather than selling off sections of the multisubsidiary publisher.
Information Today September 2000	The Thomson Corp. Acquires Aktuell Arbetsratt, Brazilian Tax and Regulatory Publisher Thomson Legal & Regulatory announced the acquisition Aktuell Arbetsratt AB, a leading Swedish publisher specializing in employment law, and IOB, one of Brazil's leading regulatory publishers.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Hogwarts and All for Scholastic The children's book publisher posts a wider loss in the historically weak first quarter without Harry Potter.
Information Today July 19, 2004	Weekly News Digest Reed Elsevier Buys Public Records Provider Seisint... HighBeam Adds Reference Research to Service... Dialog Introduces New MetalBase File...
Information Today May 21, 2007 Paula J. Hane	Thomson and Reuters Confirm Their Deal The deal will serve to consolidate two of the three major providers of financial data, news, and trading systems to the financial and professional services industry.
The Motley Fool February 14, 2005 Rich Smith	Thomson Opens Its Books The publisher reports another strong year. Investors who got into this one at an attractive price should be patting themselves on the back. But for the rest of us, it may be more prudent to await a better price.
Information Today February 25, 2008	Thomson Scientific to Use Collexis' Knowledge Dashboard in Custom Solution Plans to join Collexis' Knowledge Dashboard with Thomson Scientific's Web of Science will create a custom data mining solution for the research community.
Information Today September 29, 2015	Thomson Reuters Reveals Its Nobel Prize Predictions To forecast the winners, Thomson Reuters uses scientific research citations from the Web of Science to find the most influential researchers.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Anders Bylund	McGraw-Hill Busts Out the Chainsaw The textbook publisher recently reported earnings, and the market liked what it saw.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Thomson's Numbers Why does Thomson emphasize its free cash flow production rather than its reported earnings under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)? Investors, take note.
Information Today November 19, 2009 Katherine Allen	Reed Elsevier's CEO Quits After 8 Months Ian Smith will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, CEO of Elsevier, effective immediately. Engstrom had previously been ruled out of the running for the position following the departure of Crispin Davis.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2005 Rich Smith	What, Me Worry About ID Theft? Reed Elsevier's security breach grows 10 times in size. And no one cares. Hard as that is to fathom, it suggests that the data collection industry may escape this series of fiascoes without Congress imposing additional regulations on it.