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Google sells Zagat to restaurant review start-up. Nominal price.
B2C digital. Google bought the legendary Zagat restaurant guides for $151m in 2011, to become an online hub…
Seek, of Melbourne, buys out minority partner News Corp for $157m
B2C digital. 21-year-old Aussie listed Asia-wide employment classifieds co is paying $157m for News Corp’s 13.75% stake in…
Wolters Kluwer acquires Firecracker medical learning biz
B2B information. Firecracker will become part of the Health Learning, Research & Practice group, which produces Lippincott medical…
UBM acquires Grupo Canal Energia events, Brazil
Events. UBM Brazil expansion, just as parent company is being acquired by UK-based rival Informa Plc. UBM has…
Blue Ant Media, Toronto, buys Australian Geo magazine from Bauer
Magazine-media. 40k subs bi-monthly, part of slim-down plan by Australia’s largest mag publisher. Blue Ant is a privately-owned,…
Comcast bids $31bn for Fox-managed Sky TV. “Aims to get 50%+”
Broadcast-streaming. At £12.50 per share, significantly ahead of offer (still subject to UK regulatory approval) by 21st Century…
KHL (UK) buys Diesel & Gas Turbine Publications Group (US)
B2B information. 30-year-old privately-owned UK co is “leading supplier of international construction info”: publishing, online, and exhibitions. KHL
Reed Exhibitions (UK) buys Gamer Network
Events. Portfolio includes UK’s biggest games event EGX and network has 50m users. Will data group RELX sell…
Epiris private equity buys Time Inc UK mags for £107m
Magazine-media. Former IPC Media has 50 brands (many unprofitable), 30m reader-users but declining revenues of £240m. What brands…
Hearst takes full ownership of Fitch
B2B information. Hearst now owns 100% of Fitch, the financial information and credit ratings company, with operations in 30…