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Ziff Davis is back
J2Global, the LA-based information and service company is to spin-out its Consensus (eFax) business and rebrand the media business as Ziff Davis once more. It will remain on Nasdaq. The…
Pageant buys Savvy Investor
The UK-based Pageant Media has acquired the UK-based Savvy Investor (£2m-revenue/ £800k EBITDA) from its owner Andrew Perrins for an earnout price that is believed to include £6m upfront and…
Springer may buy Politico
Axel Springer SE, the now privately-owned German media group, is in talks relating either to a majority stake or a complete acquisition of Politico, the Washington DC website. The two…
Trusted Media buys Jukin
New York-based Trusted Media Brands (TMB), formerly the Readers Digest Association, has bought LA-based Jukin Media, a video-streaming social media company for an estimated $100m. The combined…
Forbes to SPAC
Forbes Media, the eponymous owner of Forbes magazine, may IPO in the US market following a merger with special acquisition company (SPAC) Magnum Opus Acquisition. Earlier this year, Forbes was…
Hachette buys Workman
Hachette Book Group, a subsidiary of Lagardère of France, is buying the US-based privately-owned Workman Publishing for $240m. Workman was founded in 1968 by Peter Workman and has a backlist…
Informa buys Wizard World
The Fan Expo subsidiary of UK-based information and events group Informa Plc, has increased its share of the comic convention marketplace with the purchase of six Wizard World events based in…
Farmers Edge buys e-com site
Farmers Edge, of Manitoba, Canada – a digital information company in agriculture – has agreed to buy the online marketplace CommoditAg, which was founded in 2017 and combines…
Future buys Dennis for £300m
Future Plc, the £4bn UK's largest magazine group (and probably the fastest growing in the UK and US), has agreed to buy Dennis Publishing whose print and digital brands include The Week, Money…
What next for UK’s oldest media group?
The Scottish port city of Dundee has a population of some 150,000, is almost 500 miles from London, and is uncomfortably high in the UK's child poverty league table. But it is also the home…
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