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Informa on Nasdaq. What’s next?
Informa this week completed its acquisition of a 57% shareholding in the Nasdaq-listed TechTarget. The deal involved the transfer of many of the assets of the InformaTech division and also a…
Will Future do it?
Future Plc, the UK-based, lifestyle media group, yesterday received a welcome boost from investors as its shares jumped 22% in response to modest but reassuringly predicted financials for the…
UK media wins reach but loses ‘time spent’
UK regulator Ofcom does an especially good job of producing detailed research into media consumption, and its annual Online Nation report offers a chance to examine changing online habits.…
What Dotdash Meredith got wrong and right
Three years ago this week, the digital media group Dotdash acquired America’s largest magazines group Meredith for $2.7bn. The deal brought together some 40 magazines including People, Better…
How London can be a hot market for newsletters
It’s all happening in London. In the month when the 197-year-old, perennially-lossmaking Evening Standard became a weekly (yes), two local newsletters launched. Joshi Hermann (founder of Mill…
Capital Opportunity: Industry Insights Group
This is an occasional series of profiles of companies in search of investment and/ or development support. It’s not an invitation to invest but an interview with a founder who is reaching out.…
Is this the future of Hearst UK?
It's two years since Katie Vanneck-Smith became CEO of Hearst UK. She was the sixth leader of the magazine-centric business in 40 years but the fifth in just 20 years. No wonder that the…
With Intelligence steps up the pace
The acquisition last week of SPS (formerly Sutton Place Strategies) by the UK financial information and events firm With Intelligence (With) is significant. And not just because it’s the third…
Can Bluesky beat Twitter?
Elon Musk’s ascension to the heart of the US government after Donald Trump’s election win has been accompanied by an exodus from X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, that he bought…
Future in a spin
Future Plc has had more than its share of near-death experiences in an eventful 39-year history. But the company – which seemed to have escaped its troubled past with almost a decade of…
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