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30 Oct, 2006 5:21 am
... in contravention of the defendants' previous practice of not charging customers for shipping and handling." Smith, Allen, Mendenhall, Emons & Selby v. The Thomson Corp., ___ N.E.2d ___, 2006 WL 2947653 (Ill.App. October 26, 2006) [Slip Opn., at 2]. Following ... pick CD-ROMs from warehouse shelves and place them
into packages." Slip Opn., at 4. This failure "constitutes a secondary, independent ground for reversal of the trial court's order." Id. Download PDF file of Smith v. The
Thomson Corp.
15 May, 2007 7:31 am
We've been waiting in anticipation to see what will happen. Today Reuters and Thomson have confirmed they will be joining forces to create one
of the largest financial news publishers in the world, surpassing Bloomberg. I ... will be CEO of Thomson-Reuters Professional. Thomson Chief Financial Officer Bob Daleo will be CFO of Thomson-Reuters. For more detail, see the official
announcement on the Thomson Corporation website which is a 37 page PDF file. It says: Thomson-Reuters Corporation and Thomson ...
11 Jan, 2007 1:35 pm
... release, Jan. 5, 2007: Strengthens position in law firm IT, operations consulting The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) today announced the acquisition of Baker Robbins ... firms and law departments. The acquisition of Baker Robbins provides a
powerful complement to the Thomson portfolio of legal consulting services, and will be aligned with the company's Consulting Services ...
Communications Thomson North American Legal 610 Opperman Drive Eagan, MN 55123 USA Tel: +1 651 687 4749 Tel: +1 800 778 ...
5 Jan, 2007 9:41 am
... position in law firm IT, operations consulting EAGAN, Minn. 01/05/2007, The Thomson Corporation
(NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) today announced the acquisition of Baker Robbins ... firms and law departments. The acquisition of Baker Robbins provides a powerful complement to the
Thomson portfolio of legal consulting services, and will be aligned with the company's Consulting Services ... client's priorities and
long-term goals," said Baker. "As part of Thomson, we now have access to new resources and market reach so ...
16 May, 2007 12:24 pm
... (ALM) scenario. Tim cites today's New york Times piece on Thomson Corporation's acquisition of
the Reuters Group: While no decisions have yet been ... might hire about 50 additional journalists to create a legal news wire, integrating it with Thomson's current offerings to lawyers. "Interesting, Tim says and adds "I believe that ... Co, the owner of ALM, has to be pitching the sale, if not already
in negotiations. Thomson-Reuters would be uniquely qualified to reinvent ALM into an online media company ...
16 Jan, 2008 7:07 am
The Thomson Corporation, parent of Westlaw, announced yesterday its first step into the B2B social
networking market with its acquisition of Boston-based Contact Networks, a provider of relationship management technology for large law firms ... . From the announcement: "ContactNet,
the first and most powerful social networking application built specifically for corporate environments, automatically uncovers, aggregates and prioritizes a firm's internal
relationships with external business contacts. ...
21 Feb, 2008 8:30 am
February 19, 2008. The Antitrust Division conditioned approval of Thomson Corporation's $17 billion
acquisition of Reuters Group PLC on divestitures of financial datasets and licensing of related intellectual property. Thomson and Reuters
compete head-to-head in providing three types of financial data used by investment professional to make investment decision. The Antitrust Division analyzed ...
26 Oct, 2006 12:21 pm
The Thomson Corporation announced a re-organization yesterday. Law firms should take note since
Thomson is a major supplier of both content and software. It will be interesting to see if this affects what Thomson - Elite - West delivers to BigLaw. The press release (10/25/06) states that a significant goal is "to focus on electronic workflow solutions
strategy." That sounds intriguing to me. Spotted at the blog slaw.
17 Apr, 2008 5:22 am
Years ago, when Thomson was primarily a newspaper publisher, its head office in Toronto's department store district displayed the company's
low-key approach to business. Its only corporate promotion was an undistinguished brass sign beside the front door. Little of that shyness will be found on Thursday when the
Thomson Corporation, a leading provider of electronic financial, [...]
22 Mar, 2007 4:47 am
Moving quickly, Bertelsmann, the media group, is considering a bid for Thomson Learning, a textbook publisher, just one day after announcing
that it had formed an unusual partnership with two several private equity funds to target media companies, The Financial Times reported. Thomson Learning, which was put on the block by parent Thomson Corporation
of Canada, [...]
17 Jan, 2008 1:15 am
The Thomson Corporation, parent of Westlaw, announced yesterday its first step into the B2B social
networking market with its acquisition of Boston-based Contact Networks, a provider of relationship management technology for large law firms and other professional-services
enterprises. For the complete article, click here. Source: Robert Ambrogi's LawSites
25 Oct, 2006 8:09 am
The Thomson Corporation, the publishing and information company, may put its education unit up for
sale, with a decision coming as soon as Thursday, according to a Reuters story quoting an unidentified individual familiar with the situation. The sale of the unit, the Thomson Learning division, which provides course software, specialized content, and learning services for [...]
8 May, 2007 6:06 am
Reuters reports today that the Thomson Corporation is "in talks to buy Reuters Group" for
approximately $17.6 billion--a staggering sum of money. If the deal goes through, it would "create the world's biggest financial news and data company." Thomson's President and CEO Richard Harrington would retire once the deal was complete, and Reuters CEO Tom Glocer would become CEO of the combined
14 May, 2007 4:06 am
According to a press release released on May 11, the Thomson Corporation is divesting itself of its
"higher education, careers and library reference assets" including the following brands: Wadsworth, Delmar Learning, Gale, Heinle, Brooks/Cole and South-Western. The assets will be
acquired by "funds advised by Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partner" for a total value of approximately $7.75
15 May, 2007 5:10 am
Reuters Group and the Thomson Corporation said Tuesday that they had agreed to a $17.2 billion
combination that will create one of the world's largest financial news providers. The announcement came less than two weeks after the two companies said they were in talks about a
possible merger. The deal is not without obstacles, [...]
29 Mar, 2007 2:31 am
Source: Thomson West. New Titles and Updates For Your Practice: Monthly Alert. New Titles: Civil ProcedureFederal Civil Judicial Procedure and
Rules, 2007 Ed. New Titles: Civil RightsRights of Juveniles: The Juvenile Justice System, 2d, 2007 Ed. New Titles: Corporate & BusinessSpecial Study for Corporate
Counsel on Purchases or Sales of Portions of a Company Special Study for Corporate Counsel on Commercial Leases, 2007 Ed. New Titles: ...
25 Nov, 2007 11:04 am
... which information travels on the web, an opinion decided in May is ancient history. But the world seems to have overlooked the implications of Thomson v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. 06-6280 (JBS), 2007 WL 1521138 (D.N.J. May 22, ... allegedy killed the plaintiffs' child. And the plaintiffs
seemingly made good faith efforts to serve the complaint on Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Plaintiffs tried to serve the company on
December 22, 26, 27, 28, and 29, 2006, but were told that nobody ...
7 Aug 5:21 am
... version as well, meaning that there is no "state-owned" version that is not paid for through one of these big publishers and/or vendors. When the first sale of West to the
Thomson Company happened, AALL told the Justice Department that this would be the better outcome, because there was fear at the time that some
corporate raider like Carl Icahn might swoop in and buy West, strip it of its assets, and spin it ...
26 Feb, 2007 7:53 am
... formalized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)." The right to license the MP3 codec is owned by the French company Thomson (mp3licensing). The MP3 Codec is a Standard for Compressing and Decompressing Music Files MP3 is similar to the ... above patent, James David
Johnston, retired from AT&T and became an audio architect for Microsoft Corporation. See Perceptual Coding of Audio Signals - A Tutorial.
Is that the root of the problem? Johnston is also the inventor of the ...
29 Nov, 2007 10:25 am
... has a notice at top: "Thomson, the world's leading information company, has acquired Contact Networks, the global leader in Enterprise
Relationship Management, providing social networking for the corporate market. Geoffrey Hyatt, CEO ... companies around the world already use ContactNet to harness the power of
their relationship networks. Joining forces with Thomson continues and accelerates this rapid growth with the full resources of a global leader
in information and technology." In Something ...
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