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Amazon completes MGM deal
Amazon has completed its $8.5bn acquisition of MGM studios. The deal brings a huge volume of content to Amazon’s Prime Video streaming, including the James Bond franchise and was first…
Recurrent Ventures buys Business of Home
Recurrent Ventures, of New York, has bought Business of Home, a B2B brand in the interiors sector. It was founded in 2009 and also operates an event, Future of Home. Its founder, Julia Noran…
Pario Ventures invests in The Pit Stop
Pario Ventures, UK-based investor in automotive business, has invested in The Pit Stop, a motorsport magazine launched last year by Rob Hansford and Brian Smith. Pario, which raised £3.5m last…
Can Lebedev cut his losses?
Evgeny Lebedev has sometimes seemed to enjoy being the public face of his UK media group. He campaigns in his newspaper for the homeless in London and elephants in Africa, is patron of the…
How I do it: Mia Freedman, Mamamia
Mia Freedman is co-founder (with her husband, Jason Lavigne) of the privately-owned Mamamia women's network, in Australia. It all began in 2007 as a blog and is now a web site with some 7m…
Country Life: thriving at 125
Media business thrives on the new. Much is made of the exciting, the up and coming, the disruptive and the revolutionary. But one glance at the UK newsstand tells you that the old still has…
Can Gannett make it work?
Last week wasn’t a great one for US newspaper behemoth Gannett. The Wall Street Journal revealed that, for nine months, the company had been giving advertisers inaccurate data about which of…
$15bn bid for Nielsen
A private equity consortium including Elliott Management and Brookfield Asset Management is closing in on a deal worth $15bn to buy Neilsen, the TV ratings service. The deal depends on banks’…
Hyve buys Fintech Meetup
Hyve Group Plc, the listed UK-based exhibitions group, is buying Fintech Meetup in a deal worth £3.8m and a potential earnout of £38m in years two and three. The shows were launched by Anil D.…
Apollo bids for Pearson
Shares in the listed UK education publisher Pearson rose after it disclosed that it had rejected cash takeover offers from the US private equity firm Apollo Global. The latest offer stood at…
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