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Kane buys Boyds Mills books
Books. Kane Press, the New York-based children’s book publisher owned by China’s Thinkingdom Media Group, has acquired the trade…
Scout24 bid fails as eBay bids loom
Classifieds. A bid for the 20-year Munich-based digital classifieds group Scout24 by US private equity companies Hellman & Friedman…
Netflix buys StoryBots
Sound + Vision. Netflix has acquired StoryBots for an undisclosed sum. StoryBots is a children’s media brand created…
How Axel Springer changed everything
The Berlin-based Axel Springer is selling its 51% share in the @Leisure Group, of Amsterdam, a rental company…
How Axel Springer changed everything in 10 years
All media. The Berlin-based Axel Springer is selling its 51% share in the @Leisure Group, of Amsterdam, a…
Mark Allen buys ‘The Engineer’ in UK
B2B. As predicted by Flashes & Flames, the UK’s acquisitive privately-owned Mark Allen Group (MAG) is buying Centaur Media’s…
Alma buys Finnish B2B auto platform
B2B. Alma Media, of Finland, has acquired tukkuautot.fi, a three-year-old marketplace for automotive industry professionals, for an undisclosed…
Penguin Random House buy in Spain
Books. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, the global Spanish-language division of Penguin Random House (PRH) is acquiring the…
Sinclair buys Disney sports channels for $10.6bn
Sound & Vision. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc, of Maryland, US, is paying $10.6bn to buy the 21 Regional…
Wiley buys higher ed tech
B2B. Following last week’s merger announcement of McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage, another higher education publisher is making a…