**Thomson Reuters Corporation** is a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Multinational corporation|multinational]] [[Information services|information services]] company headquartered in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. The company provides news, data, and technology solutions to professionals in the [[Law|legal]], [[Tax|tax and accounting]], [[Corporate compliance|compliance]], and [[News media|news]] sectors. Thomson Reuters is one of the world's largest providers of professional information and is listed on both the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and the [[Toronto Stock Exchange]]. The company was formed in April 2008 through the [[Mergers and acquisitions|acquisition]] of [[Reuters|Reuters Group]] by [[The Thomson Corporation]], a transaction valued at approximately $17 billion. The Thomson Corporation, founded by Canadian media mogul [[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet|Roy Thomson]], had grown from a newspaper business into a major provider of electronic information services, while Reuters, founded in [[London]] in 1851, was one of the world's oldest and most recognized [[News agency|news agencies]]. The merged entity combined Thomson's strength in legal and financial data with Reuters' global news operations and financial information services. Thomson Reuters is majority-owned by [[The Woodbridge Company]], the investment arm of the [[Thomson family (Canada)|Thomson family]], which holds approximately two-thirds of the company's shares. Its major products include [[Westlaw]], a leading [[Legal research|legal research]] platform; [[Refinitiv]], a [[Financial data vendor|financial data]] business that was majority-sold to the [[London Stock Exchange Group]] in 2021; and the [[Reuters]] news service, which continues to operate as a division of the company. Thomson Reuters has increasingly focused on technology-driven solutions, investing in [[Artificial intelligence|artificial intelligence]] and [[Cloud computing|cloud-based]] platforms to serve its core professional markets.