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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…
How I do it: Douglas Emslie, Tarsus
Douglas Emslie is CEO of the UK-based Tarsus Group, one of the world's top 20 trade show organisers which was acquired by Charterhouse private equity for £560m ($710m) in 2019. He's an…
Tarsus buying hits $100m
Tarsus Group, one of the world’s top 20 trade show organisers, this week acquired two US health events businesses, the six-year-old FounderMade and the 15-year-old Health Connect…
Bloomsbury buys ABC-CLIO
Bloomsbury, the listed UK book publisher, has bought US academic publishing company ABC-CLIO for $22.9m. ABC-CLIO was founded in 1955 and is based in Santa Barbara, California. The company had…
Graydon Carter gets serious
Subscription digital magazine Air Mail, which is aimed at US news consumers with coverage of the arts, politics, culture, fashion, and the environment, has raised $17m in a second funding…
CyberRisk buys conference
Acquisitive US startup CyberRisk Alliance (CRA), the data and insight company serving cybersecurity and IT risk professionals, has added the Identiverse Conference, an annual event, first…
Ticketer buys fantasy sports
Chicago-based Vivid Seats, Nasdaq quoted operator of a US online ticketing marketplace has acquired the Betcha Sports app which covers fantasy sports. Betcha was founded in 2018 which covers…
Is this the BBC’s future?
Next year, the BBC may be able, momentarily, to silence its political critics by celebrating its 100th anniversary. The world’s oldest broadcaster (and the largest by number of…
Informa auctions some gems
Informa Plc, the London listed information and events group, is planning to divest its subscriptions-based B2B operations in pharmaceuticals, finance, and maritime. The three companies – which…
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