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How Murdoch is chasing B2B
The $14 billion News Corp is acquiring the US-based Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) and related assets from…
Superfluid: the beauty of media
When it was founded with $4million seedfunding in September 2016, Freeda Media (the brainchild of Italian media executive…
Why UK retail ‘dinosaur’ matters
The UK publishing of books, magazines and newspapers has almost been defined by a single retailer which next…
Hopin ‘valued at $7 billion’
Hopin, the startup that powers online events, is in talks with investors to raise new funding at a…
Roll up for ‘Power, money, ego’
Puck, a new media company, is to launch its Puck News website in September, according to Axios. The…
Euro bourse ‘merger’
Euronext has finalised the acquisition of Borsa Italiana in a deal announced in October last year and worth…
Blackstone ‘high price’ movies
A new media company backed by Blackstone Group is confirmed as the buyer of film production studio Hello…
American gaming deal
Nasdaq quoted casino and racetrack owner Penn National Gaming is to buy Canadian company theScore, a digital sports…
Cannabis deal
Fire & Flower, a Canadian cannabis retailer backed by the owner of Circle K retail stores, is buying…
US books deal
Arcadia Publishing, of South Carolina, US has acquired Commonwealth Editions, a subsidiary of Applewood Books based in Massachusetts.…