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Forbes may pull listing
An early 2022 stock market listing for Forbes appears to be in doubt as its SPAC partner, Magnus Opus Acquisition, has doubts about the deal following the lacklustre listing of Buzzfeed at the…
S&P buys Climate Service
S&P Global, the NY quoted financial data company, has added The Climate Service to augment its ESG credentials. The Climate Service, based in North Carolina, was established in 2017 and…
Emerald buys cannabis event
The listed Emerald Holding Inc, the largest US-owned B2B exhibitions company, has acquired MJBiz, a cannabis industry content and event company for a total price that may reach $170m –…
GovExec buys Florida news
GovExec, the acquisitive B2B data service which covers government and related verticals, has bought News Service of Florida which covers Florida State government news. PE Growth Catalyst…
Chicago Review buys Interlude
Chicago Review Press has bought the LGBTQ+ fiction publisher Interlude Press including the young adult imprint Duet Books. Chicago’s parent company, IPG, has been distributing Interlude books…
The Top 20 of 2021
It's been a record-breaking year for Flashes & Flames (thank you). Here's a selection of our 20 most popular stories of 2021, for your holiday reading. Once you have read my new commentary…
Boat Int. buys B2B media
The UK-based Boat International Group – which claims to be the leading superyacht media company – has acquired the B2B brand International Boat Industry (IBI) for an estimated…
How I do it: Craig Fuller, FreightWaves
Craig Fuller is the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, the four-year-old digital service which Bloomberg itself once described as "the Bloomberg of freight". It is the "sustainable, high-growth"…
Vox in ‘cut price’ digital coup
Vox Media is acquiring Group Nine Media in a deal – expected to complete early in the new year – which will create one of the largest digital media companies. It will have expected revenues of…
MediaLink cashes out
Ascential Plc is the £1.8bn, UK-based information and events company whose CEO Duncan Painter has never been afraid to take strategic decisions that might prove dilutive or difficult to…
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