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November 2001
Marydee Ojala |
Thomson Gets an Edge on News The Thomson Corporation once again demonstrated its magnetic pull as it announced the acquisition of NewsEdge on August 8, 2001...   |
Information Today
September 3, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Revamps NewsEdge Service The corporate current awareness and news-alerting service has been upgraded and relaunched as Dialog NewsEdge. The upgrade includes substantial real-time capabilities as well as expanded coverage. |
Information Today
July 2, 2007
Marydee Ojala |
Thomson Business Intelligence Divests Profound and NewsEdge Two Thomson Business Intelligence products have now been sold. Profound goes to MarketResearch.com and NewsEdge is acquired by Acquire Media. |
Information Today
March 15, 2004
Matthew J. McBride |
Dialog Technology Changes Foreshadow Improvements Dialog's recent announcement of a new platform and enhanced interfaces to both Dialog Profound and Dialog NewsRoom provides insight into some changes users can expect from Dialog in 2004/2005 |
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. |
Information Today
March 11, 2002
Marydee Ojala |
NewsEdge Upgrades to Insight 6.0, Spotlights Expertise of Editors NewsEdge subscribers concerned about the effect of the company's acquisition by Dialog Corp. had those fears allayed by the introduction of NewsEdge Insight 6.0, which promises same-day updating of some 15 industry-specific vertical market SmartWires... |
Information Today
June 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Dialog CEO Optimistic About Opportunities Thomson Corp. purchased Dialog from its British owners on May 4, 2000, and in November named a seasoned Thomson executive as Dialog's new president and CEO. Now Roy M. Martin Jr. has had 6 months at the helm... |
Information Today
January 22, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Thomson Business Intelligence Dismantling Thomson Business Intelligence, created from a 2005 reorganization of assets previously assigned to Dialog and reporting to Thomson Legal & Regulatory, has begun dismantling its operations and disposing of its products. |
Information Today
February 19, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
NewsEdge Announces Electronic Publishing Technology NewsEdge has announced that its technology will be available separately and for licensing to organizations that are creating and managing content... |
ONLINE
July 2001
Marydee Ojala |
Dialogs with Roy Martin, New CEO of Dialog Shooting from the hip does not seem to be a characteristic of Roy Martin. Stressing accomplishments and achieving set goals does... |
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
October 13, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Dialog Releases Dialog Portals Service Dialog has released Dialog Portals, its new service for integrating content into enterprise portals. A major selling point for the new offering is that it is compatible with nine of the leading portal software providers. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Rich Smith |
Publishers Dueling for No. 1 The Thomson Corporation and publishing competitor Reed Elsevier, jockey for the title of worldwide uber-publisher. |
Information Today
April 1, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Gale Group, Dialog Announce Library Marketing Alliance Two Thomson Corp. subsidiaries, Gale Group and Dialog Corp., have announced that they will begin a comprehensive, long-term joint-marketing effort designed to reach the academic and public library markets worldwide... |
Information Today
April 30, 2001
Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
Information Today
June 19, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Whither Dialog? ProQuest Takes the Reins of the Venerable Search Service Before there was a Google, before there was a World Wide Web, before there was an internet, there was Dialog. |
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
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... |
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
May 7, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Sets 2001 Strategy in Flurry of Announcements After months of comparative silence, Dialog Corp., a subsidiary of Thomson Corp., has published a spate of announcements reflecting its new strategy and plans for 2001... |
Information Today
December 22, 2003 |
NewsBreaks NewsBank Relaunches NewsLibrary.com... Classical Music Online Closure... Dialog Upgrades Dialog NewsEdge... |
Information Today
December 31, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
2001 News in Review It was really quite a busy year for news. Many information industry companies struggled, reported staff cutbacks and restructuring, acquired or were acquired, repackaged products and services, and partnered with others. |
Information Today
October 7, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Gale ReferenceLink Brings Dialog Back to Public/Academic Library Market Thomson Corp.'s Gale Group subsidiary has a strong presence in the public and academic library markets -- markets that Dialog Corp., another Thomson subsidiary, has generally abandoned for years. Dialog's data is now coming back, but will be supplied and supported by Gale. |
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. |
Information Today
September 11, 2000
Susan Funke |
NewsEdge Progresses with Its E-Content Strategy NewsEdge's recent change in direction and its e-content strategy are off to a strong start with improved financial results, an increase in customers, an expanded partnership with Northern Light, and new products to further its highly visible position in the e-content marketplace... |
Information Today
October 2008
Britt & Bauer |
ProQuest: Adding Dialog to the Mix The history and development ProQuest and its acquisition of Dialog, including Dialog's ProQuest unit. |
Information Today
October 18, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Streaming Live News from Dialog The news feed agency launched a personalized service called Dialog Live News, which provides real-time, automated streaming of news reports from 2,300 sources. The service mainly covers business information, market conditions, economic indicators, SEC EDGAR reports, etc. |
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
February 9, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Choice Offers Flat-Fee Enterprise-Wide Subscription Pricing A new pricing initiative called Dialog Choice will offer unlimited access to selected content on Dialog at a fixed annual price. At this point, 40 information providers have agreed to put some 70 databases into the program. |
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. |
Information Today
January 2002
Dick Kaser |
IT Interview - Harrington Speaks The CEO of Thomson Corp. weighs factors affecting his enterprise, from the recession to 9/11 to Tasini and the web... |
Information Today
January 14, 2002
Barbara Quint |
More Ups and Downs Announced in Dialog Pricing In a late December letter to subscribers, Dialog announced another round of adjustments in its pricing structure... |
Information Today
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Announces Firm360 for Legal Business Development Thompson Corp's Firm360 is designed to provide a full 360-degree view of the internal and external dynamics affecting a law firm's practice--their clients and related businesses and industries, as well as their competition. |
Information Today
September 2000 |
B2BXchange Partners with NewsEdge NewsEdge Corp. will co-brand, integrate, and deliver custom editorial content to more than 1,600 B2BXchange vertical trading communities or VerticalXchanges. |
Information Today
February 4, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Thomson's Intelligence Data Transferred to Dialog... ScreamingMedia Launches Business Tracker... EBSCOhost Now Links to OCLC's WorldCat |
InternetNews
January 3, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Thomson to Buy Financial Integration Firm The Thomson Corp. has agreed to acquire Quantitative Analytics, a maker of database integration and analysis software for financial services firms. |
Information Today
September 2, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Thomson Acquires Techstreet Thomson Scientific and Healthcare has acquired a new operation in a move aimed at adding the standards and specifications literature to its document delivery services. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2004
Rich Smith |
Thomson's Flip Side Thomson's earnings, free cash flow, and valuation tell the full story. |
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
May 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest on Search, Content, and More National Library Week... Three search conferences being held in May... Enterprise Search Update... ProQuest Information and Learning announced... etc. |
Information Today
February 25, 2008 |
Thomson Gains Regulatory Clearances for Reuters Acquisition Thomson and Reuters get permission to merge with each retaining full ownership of their relevant databases. |
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
July 30, 2007 |
Thomson Learning to Become Cengage Learning Thomson Learning has announced that it will change its name to Cengage Learning. |
InternetNews
January 29, 2004
Colin Haley |
Thomson's CCBN Buy Ends Corporate Spy Case The financial information giant acquires the online investor relations specialist and in the process does away with a nasty lawsuit. |
Information Today
September 16, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Thomson Financial Launches Thomson Research Thomson Financial markets its data to research professionals and analysts at investment banks and at law, accounting, and consulting firms. |
Information Today
July 25, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Thomson acquires Global Securities Information, Inc., a provider of online securities and search technology... EBSCO Publishing acquires DynaMed Reference Tool, an evidence-based clinical reference tool... Thomson Gale will add law content to its business databases... etc. |
Information Today
August 5, 2002
Barbie E. Keiser |
CCBN Charges Thomson Financial with Ethical Violations CCBN, an Internet-based investor communications firm, has filed a lawsuit against Thomson Corp., alleging that Thomson "breached its fiduciary duty by using confidential information from CCBN board meetings to compete against the firm." |
