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Greek bid for Vice Media?
The US-based Vice Media is reportedly set to be acquired by Antenna Group, of Greece. In 2017, Vice…
Simon & Schuster deal in court
It was in November 2020 that Bertlesmann’s Penguin Random House announced its bid to acquire Simon & Schuster.…
UK coffee Festival sold
The UK-based William Reed Business Media, has acquired The London Coffee Festival from the 24-year-old, privately-owned Allegra Group.…
Recurrent chases the ‘magazine multiplex’
In the days when print was everything to specialist audiences, publishers liked to describe their magazines as "narrow…
How I do it: Kumaran Ramanathan, Foundry/ IDG
Kumaran Ramanathan ("Ram") is president of Foundry (formerly IDG Communications) the media-data-events subsidiary of the US-based IDG Inc.…
UK ‘quality’ dailies find their feet
In the week when the UK's largest newspaper publisher Reach Plc was rocked by adverse trading conditions (which…
Immediate launches The Recommended
The Burda UK subsidiary Immediate Media is to launch a suite of products under the banner of “The…
Podium Audio buys Bookstat
Podium Audio, an online publishing company based in Los Angeles, has bought book sales data company Bookstat. The…
Valnet buys Pocket-lint
Canadian digital content company Valnet has bought UK based consumer tech brand Pocket-lint.com which has been operating for…
How Sandow’s $1.9bn re-defines media
For increasing numbers of newspaper and magazine publishers, affiliate e-commerce has become a high-value substitute for lost advertising…