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Forbes to SPAC
Forbes Media, the eponymous owner of Forbes magazine, may IPO in the US market following a merger with…
Hachette buys Workman
Hachette Book Group, a subsidiary of Lagardère of France, is buying the US-based privately-owned Workman Publishing for $240m.…
Informa buys Wizard World
The Fan Expo subsidiary of UK-based information and events group Informa Plc, has increased its share of the…
Farmers Edge buys e-com site
Farmers Edge, of Manitoba, Canada – a digital information company in agriculture – has agreed to buy the…
Future buys Dennis for £300m
Future Plc, the £4bn UK's largest magazine group (and probably the fastest growing in the UK and US),…
What next for UK’s oldest media group?
The Scottish port city of Dundee has a population of some 150,000, is almost 500 miles from London,…
Amazon ads boom
The Information has reported that the cost of placing ads on Amazon’s main marketplace has increased by more…
Reddit gears up…
Reddit, the San Francisco-based social media platform, has raised $410m at a valuation of more than $10bn. It…
Mark Allen launches – print
The UK-based B2B Mark Allen Group, which has profited hugely by indulging in the hugely unfashionable practice of…
GovExec buys GovTribe
Acquisitive Washington DC-based GovExec, the information company covering US government and institutions, has acquired Virginia-based GovTribe, another company which provides…