Setting up shop.

Discusses a business strategy unveiled by Reuters on February 8, 2000. Details of the strategy, which plans to restructure the company's core business around the Internet. History of Reuters and its various business, including its news service and an investment fund; Threats that the Internet poses to Reuters' news service network; Plans by Reuters to retail its products over the Internet; Possible problems that strategy raises, including the effect of a retail business on its wholesale business.