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Keystone buys uni search tool
Keystone Academic Solutions, of Oslo, Norway has acquired the UK-based post-graduate search tool FindAUniversity. Keystone already serves 54m…
Brill acquires theology texts
Academic publisher Brill, of the Netherlands, has agreed to acquire the assets of German publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht…
Is this the answer for RELX?
The professional information groups RELX and Wolters Kluwer are a sprightly middle-aged couple who have spent a lifetime…
The 7 lives of Incisive Media
It is 20 years since Tim Weller floated Incisive Media on the London stock exchange. The publisher of…
Indy may buy ‘local’ news brands
The Independent, founded in 1986 as a UK daily newspaper but now digital-only, and owned by Evgeny Lebedev…
Backstage expands ex-US
Following last month’s acquisition of the UK-based Spotlight casting service for actors, another US-based castings company, Backstage, has…
Drinks industry MBO
The management team of IWSR, the drinks industry data company, has bought-out the brand from FPE Capital. The…
US outdoor media deal
Colorado-based Pocket Outdoor Media has raised new finance in a series B round, rebranded as “Outside” and made…
RentPath sold for $608m
Redfin, the US-based real estate online platform which floated in 2017, is to acquire RentPath out of bankruptcy…
DMGT sells Hobsons EdTech
As foreshadowed in Flashes & Flames in December, DMGT has agreed the sale of Hobsons, its EdTech business,…