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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…
25 June 2021
1 minute read
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…
25 June 2021
4 minute read
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,…
25 June 2021
6 minute read
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…
25 June 2021
2 minute read
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…
24 June 2021
2 minute read
‘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…
24 June 2021
2 minute read
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…
24 June 2021
1 minute read
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…
24 June 2021
1 minute read
WoodMac buys battery data
Wood Mackenzie, the Edinburgh, UK-based subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, of the US, specialising in data for energy, metals and mining, has acquired Roskill, a privately-owned, London-based…
24 June 2021
1 minute read
Euclid buys LEO Weekly
Cleveland, Ohio-based Euclid Media Group has bought the Louisville-based LEO Weekly, an alternative weekly news title which was founded in 1990. The new owners aim to maintain the…
24 June 2021
1 minute read
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