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RELX Plc acquires Threat Matrix for $817m
B2B information. Largest RELX deal for 10 years is a fraud detection tool (100m transactions analysed per day).…
Blackstone buys 55% of Reuters data biz for $17.3bn
B2B information. Biggest change since 2008 merger of Thomson + Reuters. Makes Blackstone a direct competitor to Bloomberg.…
How Meredith upstaged Time Inc
While the British were founding the BBC and jailing Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 became a landmark year in magazines.…
What now for ‘world’s biggest’ magazine?
Twenty-one years ago, the world’s most successful magazine editor stepped down. In a dazzling 32-year reign, Helen Gurley…
Forget Oscars, here are ‘The Dinkies’
Welcome to the first ‘digital-from-ink’ awards (“The Dinkies”), to recognise the successful transformation of primarily consumer print-centric companies.…
Is this how streaming will kill TV networks?
‘Media disruption’ is a gentle description of the way that technology expands the choice for consumers and marketers…
Who will buy Time Inc UK?
April 2018 Update: London-based Epiris private equity is buying Time Inc UK for a reported £125m. The chair will…
What now for UK’s Telegraph Media Group?
Daily newspapers remain the most vulnerable of traditional media. The business model has been broken not so much…
The spirit of Felix Dennis lives on
Digital disruption is full of contradictions for legacy media. Condé Nast splashed more than $100m on its trumpeted…
How newspaper brands survive the meltdown
Daily newspapers were the original ‘media industry’. That’s why executives are so tormented by the shredding of the…