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Indy Dive buys PharmaVoice
Acquisitive B2B information company Industry Dive has bought the assets of PharmaLinx, bringing with them the PharmaVoice brand which serves 60,000 professionals in the pharmaceutical…
Sony acquires Zee in India
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) intends to take control of Zee Entertainment in a deal to combine their digital assets, content and production in a listed company in India. Sony Pictures…
Signage firm buys news blog
Florida-based Spectrio, a company which offers digital signage and interactive screens for retailers, has acquired Canadian company Sixteen:Nine which provides a news blog and podcast covering…
DMGT adds Irish biz titles
DMGT subsidiary DMG Media Ireland is to buy trade brands Business plus (a magazine) and the Biz Plus website, from Irish parent company Nalac. The company was founded by Siobhan O’Connell who…
Will Murdoch buy GB News TV?
The Murdoch family's News Corp today announced the launch of a new UK channel, TalkTV, early in 2022. It is being developed from the company's radio stations including talkRadio, talkSport,…
How Marie Claire was born again
When the US edition of Marie Claire quietly closed its print edition last week – just four months after Future plc acquired the Hearst-led JV that had produced it for 27 years – no one was…
Reddit doubles down on ads
The Information says that the rally that sent US shares of companies like GameStop and AMC Entertainment soaring earlier this year was “driven in large part by discussion on Reddit, the…
Bank buys Zagat
America’s largest bank JPMorgan Chase is acquiring The Infatuation, owner of the restaurant review guide Zagat, as it looks to win a greater share of the payments consumers make…
Fox buys TMZ
Fox Corp, the Murdoch family-controlled media company, has bought celebrity news site TMZ for a sum thought to be around $50m from Warner Media. The site was founded in 2005 by Harvey Levin…
New Statesman ‘goes global’
The UK’s venerable left-wing political weekly, The New Statesman, seems to have been inspired both by the recent sale of Politico for $1bn and The Atlantic’s success in reaching 800k…
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