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Vroom buys CarStory
Used car buying site Vroom, of the US, is acquiring CarStory as part of its acquisition of Vast…
17 December 2020
Verisk buys Jornaya
Nasdaq-quoted data company Verisk, of New Jersey, US, is to acquire behavioural data company Jornaya which serves clients…
17 December 2020
Event trade bodies combine
The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) has bought the Corporate Event Market Association (CEMA). CEMA, whose members have…
17 December 2020
How far can GlobalData go?
The generic name is almost a disguise for a listed UK business information company with a valuation of…
11 December 2020
How one-man magazine cooks the books
Ed Needham is a Brit who spent almost two decades as editor in the UK and US of…
11 December 2020
Airbnb IPO value soars
San Francisco-based Airbnb, the lettings marketplace that has changed the way the world books holidays and property letting…
11 December 2020
Euromoney buys Wealth
Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, the London quoted B2B information company, is to acquire Wealth Engine Inc for $14.5m, some…
11 December 2020
Sony buys Crunchyroll for $1.2bn
Japanese electronics company Sony is to buy the anime streaming service Crunchyroll from US telecoms owner AT&T. Sony…
11 December 2020
Springer Nature ‘sold’
In a further twist, following several failed IPO attempts, the private equity minority shareholder of Springer Nature, BC…
11 December 2020
Polska Press sold for $33m
Poland’s state-controlled oil company PKN Orlen is to buy Polska Press from Verlagsgruppe Passau, of Germany for a…
11 December 2020