who controls/owns reuters?
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The company was founded by Paul Julius Reuter, a German-Jewish immigrant to London who as early as 1851 began transmitting stock-market quotes between Paris and London via the new Calais-Dover telegraph cable.\n\n \nReuters Data Centre, London.Reuter's agency built a reputation in Europe for being the first to report scoops from abroad, like the news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Today, almost every major news outlet in the world subscribes to Reuters. It operates in 200 cities in 94 countries, supplying text in 19 languages.\n\nReuters was floated as a public company in 1984 on the London Stock Exchange and on NASDAQ in the US. However, there were concerns that the company's tradition for objective reporting might be jeopardised if control of the company later fell into the hands of a single shareholder. To counter this possibility, the constitution of the company at the time of flotation included a rule that no individual was allowed to hold more than 15% of the company. If this limit is exceeded the directors can order the shareholder to reduce the holding to less than 15%. This rule was applied in the late 1980s when Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which already held around 15% of Reuters, bought an Australian news company which also had a holding in Reuters. The acquisition meant that Murdoch then held more than 15% and he was obliged to reduce the holding to less than 15% in line with the rules.\n\nAt the same time, as a further measure to protect the independence of Reuters news reporting, The Reuters Founders Share Company was set up. This is a company whose sole task is to protect the integrity of the company's news output. It holds one "Founders Share" which can outvote all other shares in the event that an attempt is made to alter any of the rules relating to the Reuters Trust Principles. These principles set out the company's aim to preserve its independence, integrity and freedom from bias in its news reporting [1].\n\nReuters began to grow rapidly in the 1980s, widening the range of its business products and expanding its global reporting network for media, financial and economic services. Recent key product launches include Equities 2000 (1987), Dealing 2000-2 (1992), Business Briefing (1994), Reuters Television for the financial markets (1994), 3000 Series (1996) and the Reuters 3000 Xtra service (1999).
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It is owned by Burns Fred Limited Partnership II.\n\nhttp://www.pvdnetwork.com/PVDNet.asp?SiteID=116
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Go to http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp and enter the website name. You'll get the whole story on the site's owners and managers.
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Whoever owns Halliburton.
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Does the DNC own ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, Rueters, and the BBC?\n\n(yes)
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Not that directly.\nCITGO its a company owned by PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela), and PDVSA is owned by all venezuelans (its a publuc company) and managed by goverment.
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No, Yahoo is a publically traded company, so Yahoo is owned by its shareholders.\n\nOf course, some people in the CIA might own shares of Yahoo, so there's nothing that says that individuals in the CIA might not own a tiny fraction of Yahoo!
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Halliburton is a privately owned company I believe.\n\nI stand corrected...here is a good link\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=HAL
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Freedom of speech is legal in America.  Strange how the CEO of Haliburton (VP Cheeney) stepped down.  Large overseas contracts used to go to Bectal Corp, however since the government said they would rebuild Iraq, Haliburton got the contracts and the U.S. blew up a lot of building. Thus creating a lot of work for Haliburton.   Sound fishy???   Not to mention Cheeney's gross income for 2005 was over 8 million dollars.
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http://www.buffettsecrets.com/berkshire-hathaway-holdings.htm\n\nLittle dated, but this link has a list of the major company (brands) that BH owns outright and the public companies that Berkshire owns a significant share of.
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Gazprom I believe...but it may be Lukoil as said by "Starme", their website says that it was state owned and doesn't mention Viktor Gordesky though -- which is why I suggest it might be Gazprom.
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Every stockholder is an owner of the corporation as stock represents an ownership interest in the corporation.  If you are asking in general whether the person or entities that own a majority of a company typically hold it in preferred or common stock, it is generally common stock.  \n\nFor public companies (companies traded on US exchanges) it is almost certainly common stock held by the public.  For private companies, voting control tends to lie most often in the hands of the common stock.  If you are talking about private, venture funded companies, however, sometimes the venture capitalists hold preferred stock in such amounts that they effectively have control of the company.
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Oh there is definately someone else in charge. We will never know who it really is though.Well I have a few ideas on it, but dont want to sound like a total nut job, so I'll leave that alone.
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Edward Rogers is the CEO of Rogers Communications Inc.\n\nHe is also:\n---Chairman, Rogers Wireless and Rogers Cable\n---Vice Chairman, Rogers Media\n---President and CEO, Rogers Telecommunications
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0.25% of the Share Transation Value.\n\nCA. Deepak Bholusaria
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The Tribune Company is the current owner of the Cubs, who are not for sale. The Tribune Co. also owns WGN, 26 other TV stations,  and websites such as CareerBuilder.com. They also own newspapers such the LA Times and Newsday and a couple Spanish-language papers.
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USA thinks they own the world