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Silver Lake buys Facile.it
Silver Lake, a global tech investment company, is to buy the Italian price comparison website Facile.it from its private equity owners EQT AB and Oakley Capital. The deal should close in Q3…
Is this the ‘big’ future of specialist media?
Even before the world's economies were rocked by the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this year was always set to be the wake-up for ambitious media which had spent the past decade…
How I do it: Jane Huxley, Are Media
Jane Huxley is CEO of Are Media, the 90-year-old Australian company previously known as Australian Consolidated Press, ACP Magazines, and Bauer Media Australia. It has long been the most…
More B2B for News Corp (it’s solar…)
OPIS, the energy, chemicals and carbon news and price data subsidiary of Dow Jones (itself, a part of News Corp), has agreed to buy the solar pricing and reporting assets of Singapore Data…
Why trust matters so much to news brands
For a decade, the Reuters Institute in Oxford, UK, has been compiling one of the most detailed surveys of how people around the world get their news. Though not only focused on the business…
Emerald STM sold ‘for £300m’
The UK-based STM group Emerald has been acquired by the Cambridge Information Group for an undisclosed price believed to be some £300m. Full details of the family-owned Emerald’s…
ITV buys nature producer. What next?
ITV Plc, the UK’s largest commercial free-to-air broadcaster, continues to expand its ITV Studios production business. It is buying 79.5% of the equity in UK non-scripted TV production…
Screen International group sold for £19m
Media Business Insight Ltd (MBI), the UK-based publisher of Broadcast and Screen International, has been acquired by GlobalData Plc for a net price believed to be £19.4mn in cash (6x EBITDA).…
Rosetta Stone-Curiosity deal
California-based IXL Media, an online learning company and owner of the Rosetta Stone brand, has acquired Curiosity Media, creator of learning platforms to teach customers English and Spanish,…
TC Media buys ERPI
TC Media, an educational publishing subsidiary of print and packaging corporation Transcontinental Inc and publisher of French language books within North America, has acquired the Editions du…
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