Thomson Reuters unveils improved desktop offering

Global media giant Thomson Reuters yesterday unveiled its revamped desktop offering for financial professionals that replaces tedious command-based operations with a simpler, Web-style interface. 'This is a fundamental shift for our company and our industry,' said Devin Wenig, chief executive of Thomson Reuters Markets, which sells terminals and service subscriptions to banks, investment houses and others in the financial sector. The new desktop offering, branded as Thomson Reuters Eikon, is part of the company's US$1 billion innovation strategy to invest and build advanced internet-based platforms using resources from Thomson Corp and Reuters, which merged in April 2008.