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How I do it: Sean Griffey, Indy Dive
Sean Griffey is CEO and co-founder, of B2B newsletter publisher Industry Dive. The Washington DC-based company became majority owned by Falfurrias private equity two years ago. It now…
Storytel buys $135m Audiobooks
Audio streaming company Storytel is to buy the KKR-owned Audiobooks.com in a deal valuing the company at $135m. Audiobooks has a library of over 250,000 titles which can be streamed and…
Hyve buys 121 Group
Hyve, the UK listed trade show business, is acquiring the 121 Group, a meetings programme organiser in the mining sector across EMEA, North America and APAC, for initial…
Twitter acquires Threader
Twitter, the utra short-form user generated content app, is acquiring Threader, a complementary app which allows users to connect Twitter threads into a longer-form article and share them. One…
Vox adds Criminal Prodns
Vox Media, of the US, has bought the podcast studio Criminal Productions as part of its expansion of audio and podcast content. The studio was founded in 2013 by Phoebe Judge and Lauren…
Australian radio deal
Australian Radio Network (ARN) which is owned by Here, There & Everywhere (HT&E), is to buy regional radio company Grant Broadcasters for $308m in a mix of cash and shares. ARN own 13…
Altus buys Reonomy
Altus Group, the Toronto, Canade based provider of software and data services in the property vertical, is to buy Scryer Inc which owns the Reonomy US-oriented real estate data platform for…
Why is Dotdash buying Meredith?
Ever since the perennially lossmaking AOL merged with the highly-profitable Time Warner, at the dawn of the internet, dealmakers have been trying to combine traditional media with digital…
How I do it: Kevin Costello, Haymarket
Kevin Costello is CEO of the Haymarket Media Group (£143m revenue/ £8m EBITDA in 2019-20) which he joined 28 years ago. The 65-year-old Haymarket – which is owned by the family of leading UK…
How The Economist missed out
FiscalNote, the Washington DC-based legal data and analytics company, is to float via a SPAC deal with Duddell Street Acquisition Corp which is expected to value the company at $1.3bn –…
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