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Belgian TV deal
DPG Media and Groupe Rossel, both Belgium-based media companies, have agreed to buy The Belgian TV assets of RTL Group for a price believed to be about €250m. RTL had been a shareholder in the…
OneWeb internet satellites
UK government-backed OneWeb launched 36 more satellites today (1 July), from Russia’s Far East, adding to the 200 already in orbit. These would enable the majority Bharti Airtel owned…
Pageant buys Hedge Fund Alert
The UK-based Pageant Media has acquired the Hedge Fund Alert (HFA) subscription service from financial advisory and information group Green Street. HFA subscribers pay some $5k to…
The rising value of ‘trust’
There might never have been a better time to be a market researcher. Public opinion everywhere is volatile, most people in most countries do not readily trust the news they read and – after…
Bustle shows magazines how
Let’s not pretend everything in the pure-play digital garden is rosy. But among the corpses, layoffs, closures and firesales, there is one digital media group that’s not just still standing,…
Will commodities group be sold?
The scale of would-be acquisitions across B2B information – and the rising multiples being paid for subscriptions businesses – suggest that this just might be the year when the London-based…
BuzzFeed IPO: “ads are good”
The 15-year-old BuzzFeed yesterday confirmed its plans to IPO via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). It claims it will be able to accelerate growth through e-commerce – but…
‘Future of work’ media launch
Quartz co-founders Kevin Delaney and Jay Lauf and former New York Times executive Erin Grau, have launched a new media company Charter focused on “the future of work”. The…
Owler sold for $24.5m
Meltwater, a social media data and analytics company, has agreed to buy business information provider Owler for a combination of $18.9m in cash and $5.6m of shares in Meltwater. Owler was…
The Hill is for sale
The Hill, a digital title focused on events in Washington DC and generating national interest in US government news, is being touted for sale by owner Jimmy Finkelstein in news first reported…
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