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Penske Media, of US, acquires SheKnows Media. Terms undisclosed
B2C digital. 15-year-old privately-owned, highly-acquisitive Penske is increasingly global. It owns Variety, Women’s Wear Daily, Deadline, Robb Report,…
Cox sells Austin American-Statesman (85k circ daily) to GateHouse Media for $47.5m
News. Sale by Atlanta-based Cox (mainly broadcast and digital now) includes Austin Communities Newspaper group and Spanish language weekly…
Australian pay TV network Foxtel merges with Fox Sports
Broadcast-streaming. News Corp finally gets control (75%) of Foxtel after decades of being a minority partner to Aussie…
Euromoney buys 45-year-old Extel investor survey for “less than £5m”
B2B information. Last year, over 15,500 investment professionals cast 1.1m votes, providing an “unparalleled dataset to help clients…
S&P Global agrees to acquire Kensho analytics for $550m
B2b information. Kensho is provider of analytics, A1, machine learning, and data visualization systems to global banks, investment…
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,…