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PressReader buys News360 personalisation
PressReader, the Vancouver-based global ‘all you can read’ newspaper and magazine platform, is to buy News360 for its…
RiseUp buys MENAbytes
RiseUp, of Egypt, has acquired Saudi Arabian company MENAbytes which publishes online across Middle East and North Africa…
How The Guardian did it. What’s next?
Just three years ago, The Guardian was deep in crisis. After helping to make the one-time regional UK…
FT buys into Business of Fashion
The Financial Times has bought a minority stake in The Business of Fashion, the digital media start-up for…
Viacom-CBS and more to come…
CBS and Viacom, which split in 2006, have agreed to a merger. Both US TV companies are controlled…
The Spectator launches in US
Magazines. The Spectator, the 191-year-old politics-culture-news weekly, whose former editors-in-chief included the current UK Prime Minister, is launching…
Tumblr goes (very) cheap
B2C. US-based Automattic Inc (owner of WordPress) is buying Tumblr from Verizon for a nominal price. The blogging and…
ACBJ buys BizEquity
B2B. American City Business Journals (ACBJ) has bought a majority stake in BizEquity, a cloud-based valuation service for 625…
LDC buys Plimsoll nature movies
Sound + Vision. LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, of the UK, has taken a minority…
Nineteen Group buys Broden events
Events. Phoenix Equity-backed Nineteen Group, of the UK, has acquired Broden Media, owner of the 13-year-old Emergency Services…