REUTERS COLLABORATES WITH YAHOO!

03/04/2007


NEW YORK and LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY) (LSE: RTR) announces the launch of Reuters
Messaging 6.0, the latest version of the Reuters Communication and
Collaboration Services product suite, featuring connectivity to Yahoo!(R)
Messenger. Energy market professionals can now leverage an enterprise-grade
instant messaging application with access to the global trading communities
who currently rely on Yahoo! Messenger. Reuters Messaging 6.0 substantially
increases Reuters exposure to the energy markets, as traders and analysts
will now be able to take advantage of the full range of collaboration
services designed to help improve their trading security, speed and
efficiency.

Reuters Messaging 6.0 enables energy market professionals to gain
real-time access to their market counterparts globally across front, middle
and back offices, increasing the efficiency of pre-trade discussion,
post-trade scheduling, transportation and logistics. It also allows energy
traders to quickly post prices to Platts daily via Reuters Messaging, a key
source of energy pricing data.

With the introduction of IM connectivity to Yahoo! Messenger, Reuters
Messaging 6.0 offers the ability to send text based messages, view presence,
and access conversation history between networks by signing into one service.
In addition to connectivity to Yahoo! Messenger, Reuters Messaging 6.0 adds
tools to graphically share market data and insight with market counterparts.
Reuters Messaging is the first enterprise instant messaging service to
connect to the three leading public instant messaging networks providing
extended reach to the financial community.

David Gurle, Global Head of Reuters Collaboration Services, says: "The
energy sector is one of the most dynamic trading markets in the world.
Customer feedback has shown us that energy professionals have a real need to
deploy collaboration tools that significantly enhance pre- and post-trading
exchanges in real-time. By partnering with Yahoo!, Reuters is first to
deliver an enterprise class collaboration service to put robust content and
real-time communication tools at the fingertips of energy market
professionals worldwide."

Jeff Bonforte, Senior Director, Real Time Communications, Yahoo! Inc.,
says: "Yahoo! is a leader in driving industry-wide interoperability forward
and we are pleased to provide high-quality interoperability between Yahoo!
Messenger and Reuters users to enhance productivity and collaboration for
energy market professionals. Yahoo! Messenger users have the unique
flexibility to connect with people across various major consumer and
enterprise IM communities and we will continue to work with market leaders
like Reuters who share our commitment to providing a safe and convenient
experience for IM users."

Irvine Schelkis, PVM Oil, states: "Increased visibility, speed of
communication and accurate execution with our clients and across trading
desks is critical to our business. With Reuters Messaging, we have integrated
real-time collaboration of information within the front, and back office
workflow and benefited from faster trade execution and improved accuracy and
trade reconciliation."


Notes to Editors


About Reuters Messaging 6.0

With Reuters Messaging 6.0, Reuters is poised to capitalize on the
exploding growth of enterprise-grade messaging and enhanced collaboration
services. According to Gartner, the enterprise instant messaging market will
experience a compounded annual growth rate of 20 percent over the next three
years, with 90 percent of users with business e-mail accounts also using
IT-controlled instant messaging accounts by 2010. Aside from connectivity to
Yahoo! Messenger, Reuters Messaging 6.0 also features the following new
enhancements:


-- Enriched market data sharing -- Users can quickly share a portion of
their desktop such as image of the latest process, charts or
Microsoft(R) Excel sheets.

-- Unified communication management -- Centralized dashboard interface
enables users to view and manage all incoming emails, instant
messages, and chat room messages.

-- Prioritized workflow -- Alerts automatically notify users of important
new emails, instant messages or chat room messages based on user-
defined criteria.



Reuters Messaging has a native community of over 90,000 active users,
along with access to Yahoo! Messenger, AOL(R) Instant Messenger and MSN(R)
Messenger counterparts -- reaching over 250 million users world wide.


About Reuters

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countries and had annual revenues of 2.4 billion pounds Sterling/US$4.4
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