Mergers, acquisitions and divestments subtopic
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Articles
1-100 out of 100 article(s)
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| Bloomberg buying BusinessWeek magazine. |
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Oct 14, 2009 |
250 |
| IHS Acquires LogTech (Canada) Ltd. |
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Sep 2, 2009 |
675 |
| Information Today, Inc. Acquires the Search Engine Meeting. |
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Aug 31, 2009 |
287 |
| Media Mergers The OFT's Review Of The UK's Media Merger Regime. |
Christian, Gordon |
Law overview |
Aug 7, 2009 |
1999 |
| U-T owner eyeing BusinessWeek purchase. |
York, Tom |
Brief article |
Jul 20, 2009 |
64 |
| United States: WK Acquires GRC Provider Axentis. |
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Jul 18, 2009 |
209 |
| A buyer for BusinessWeek is being sought. |
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Brief article |
Jul 13, 2009 |
124 |
| Not welcome: real estate industry Web site operator Move Inc. said Wednesday that it had sold the assets and certain liabilities of its Welcome Wagon property to South Florida Media Group. |
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Brief article |
Jun 29, 2009 |
73 |
| CLARITY ACQUIRES WEEKLY STANDARD MAG. |
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Jun 22, 2009 |
482 |
| IHS Completes Acquisition of Remaining 49.9 Percent of Lloyd's Register-Fairplay. |
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Jun 17, 2009 |
872 |
| Magazines acquired: OpenGate. |
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Brief article |
Jun 15, 2009 |
77 |
| Telematch, Inc. (Springfield, VA), a provider of information services, marketing intelligence and digital marketing products, has acquired Phoenix Data Processing (Westmont, IL) and Farm Market iD from Multi Ag Media (East Syracuse, NY), the publisher of "Eastern Dairy-Business," Western DairyBusiness," "Holstein World" and "DairyProfit Weekly.". |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
97 |
| Leading Primary Research Firm Guidepoint Global Announces Acquisition of Vista Research. |
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May 22, 2009 |
450 |
| United States: Investor Group Closes Acquisition of Real-Time Publisher Services Business from VeriSign, Inc. |
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May 14, 2009 |
427 |
| Ten reasons why M&A will be stronger in 2009 "than most people think". |
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Apr 20, 2009 |
439 |
| "Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch the basket". |
Whitaker, Joel |
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Apr 20, 2009 |
822 |
| URCH Publishing (London), a publisher of market intelligence reports covering the global pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, has acquired Spectra Intelligence (London), a privately owned publisher of specialized and syndicated pharmaceutical market research. |
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Apr 16, 2009 |
106 |
| Major trade and professional publication, online and related business information acquisitions, first quarter 2009 (by buyer). |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
544 |
| Two acquisitions for Jones and Bartlett. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
308 |
| URCH Publishing Buys Spectra Intelligence - a Specialist Pharmaceutical Market Research Business. |
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Mar 31, 2009 |
285 |
| Something cooking: duo's incubator seeks to hatch Web's next big thing. |
Russell, Joel |
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Mar 30, 2009 |
1187 |
| Agora Marketing Solutions, Inc. Acquires Assets of USAPubs, Inc. |
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Mar 18, 2009 |
326 |
| CRA International Economists Provide Economic Antitrust Analysis and Expert Testimony In Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) Successful Prevention of Merger Between CCC Information Services Inc. and Mitchell International Inc. |
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Company overview |
Mar 16, 2009 |
488 |
| Mother Nature Network Acquires Assets of Plenty. |
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Mar 9, 2009 |
470 |
| IMV Publishing (Tucson, AZ), a unit of IMV Ltd. (Greenbelt, MD) and an online provider of daily news and information for dental professionals, has acquired ProBusiness Online (Salt Lake City, UT), a provider of online continuing education for the dental community. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
114 |
| IMV Publishing Acquires ProBusiness Online. |
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Feb 11, 2009 |
358 |
| Office space. |
Mendoza, Lauren Alicia |
Brief article |
Feb 9, 2009 |
32 |
| United States : St Ives Completes Acquisition of US Operations. |
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Jan 22, 2009 |
212 |
| St Ives Completes Acquisition of U.S. Operations. |
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Jan 21, 2009 |
295 |
| Mealey's Conferences sold by Bus. Valuation Resources. |
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Jan 17, 2009 |
302 |
| Dow Jones (New York), a unit of News Corp., has expanded its coverage of European venture capital data by acquiring the database assets of The Library House (Cambridge, UK), a provider of data and emerging private companies in Europe. |
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Jan 17, 2009 |
138 |
| Seller's remorse: just three weeks alter it was announced that TV Guide Channel and TVGuide.com would be sold to TV producer Allen Shapiro's private equity firm, owner Macrovision said Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. would buy the media properties instead. |
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Jan 12, 2009 |
102 |
| Singapore: Eastgate relooks planned US$75 mln HK publishing firm purchase. |
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Jan 5, 2009 |
190 |
| United States: Warwick Publishing Acquires Winthrop-Atkins. |
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Jan 2, 2009 |
267 |
| Major trade and professional publication, online and related business information acquisitions, fourth quarter 2008 (by buyer). |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
583 |
| BRIEFS. |
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Dec 8, 2008 |
887 |
| Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (Washington, D.C.), a unit of Times Publishing Co. (St. Petersburg, FL), has acquired Voxant's (Herndon, VA) broadcast transcripts media assets. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
120 |
| Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (Sudbury, MA), a producer of educational materials, including text books, reference products, testing and assessment services for professionals in the fields of public safety, medicine, nursing, allied health, administration and criminal justice, has acquired ClickSafety.com (Alamo, CA), a provider of online safety management solutions for safety training professionals. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
88 |
| United States: Acquire Media Enjoys Tremendous One-Year Growth on Anniversary of NewsEdge Acquisition. |
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Nov 19, 2008 |
361 |
| "Washington CEO" sold to Tiger Oak Publications. |
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Nov 17, 2008 |
310 |
| Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (Washington, D.C.), a unit of Times Publishing Co. (St. Petersburg, FL), has acquired TrendTrack (Highland Park, IL), an online source for tracking legislative information in all 50 states, from company founder Ron Hogan and management. |
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Nov 17, 2008 |
111 |
| Gannett acquires social media provider Ripple6. |
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Nov 13, 2008 |
709 |
| Newsletter industry sees vigorous M&A activity during a fearsome and volatile economic time. |
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Nov 12, 2008 |
1391 |
| van Tulleken Company merges and moves. |
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Brief article |
Nov 12, 2008 |
165 |
| EBSCO Publishing buys NISC, Inc. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
235 |
| CapitalIQ (New York), a unit of McGraw-Hill's Standard & Poor's business and a provider of information and services to over 2,400 financial institutions, advisory firms and corporations, has agreed to acquire a copy of the Reuters Estimates and The Reuters Research-on-Demand databases, as well as training materials, source documents and related assets and services from Thomson Reuters (New York). |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
111 |
| Hallmark books deal for Twentieth TV library: channel backs up original offerings with family-friendly fare. |
Sporich, Brett |
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Oct 27, 2008 |
206 |
| Magazine sold. |
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Brief article |
Oct 20, 2008 |
99 |
| IHS to Host Multimedia Webcast to Discuss Global Insight Acquisition Closing and Integration October 14, 2008. |
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Oct 13, 2008 |
269 |
| Germany: News Corp. buys rest of VeriSigns stake in Jamba. |
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Oct 10, 2008 |
234 |
| IHS agrees to acquire Global Insight, Inc. |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
398 |
| Major trade and professional publication, online and related business information acquisitions, third quarter 2008 (by buyer). |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
697 |
| EBSCO Publishing buys NISC, Inc. |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
235 |
| RC2 Terminates Purchase Agreement for Children's Publishing Division of Publications International, Limited; Adverse Capital Markets, High Financing Costs Cited. |
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Sep 30, 2008 |
819 |
| Credit freeze putting ice on sale of variety: Hollywood trade still seeks a buyer. |
Sporich, Brett |
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Sep 29, 2008 |
1046 |
| IHS to Acquire Global Insight, Inc. |
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Sep 18, 2008 |
1190 |
| United States: FTC OKs Choice Point acquisition by Reed Elsevier. |
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Sep 17, 2008 |
130 |
| Learning Trends, LLC (Austin, TX), a producer of supplementary education materials, has merged with Abrams & Company Publishers (Waterbury, CT). |
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Sep 17, 2008 |
40 |
| United States: FTC Closes Review of Proposed ChoicePoint(R) Acquisition. |
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Sep 16, 2008 |
187 |
| Media spin-off: Liberty Media Corp. plans to split off into a publicly traded company several of its television and communications businesses, including its 50 percent stake in El Segundo-based satellite television provider DirecTV Group Inc. |
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Sep 8, 2008 |
74 |
| Australia: PMP buys book distributer Scribo. |
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Sep 4, 2008 |
146 |
| Vance Publishing Corporation acquires CattleNetwork.com and CattleStore.com. from Integrated Management Information, Inc. |
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Sep 1, 2008 |
47 |
| Wiley acquires newsletters from LRP Publications. |
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Sep 1, 2008 |
285 |
| IHS agrees to acquire Global Insight, Inc. |
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Sep 1, 2008 |
267 |
| Farm Journal Media acquires IMPLEMENT & TRACTOR magazine from Scissortail Productions. |
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Sep 1, 2008 |
249 |
| Holders of Getty Images' Debentures Exercise Right to Require Purchase. |
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Aug 22, 2008 |
491 |
| Right to Require Purchase of Getty Images Debentures Expires August 21, 2008. |
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Aug 15, 2008 |
524 |
| Premiere And News Corporation Deal Approved Subject To Conditions. |
Bickler, Rachael |
Brief article |
Aug 14, 2008 |
235 |
| Sony to Purchase Bertelsmann's 50% Stake in Sony BMG; Music Company to Become Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. |
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Aug 5, 2008 |
620 |
| LexisNexis acquires titles from Law Bulletin Publishing. |
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Aug 1, 2008 |
309 |
| Canadian title sold to Newcom Business Media. |
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Company overview |
Aug 1, 2008 |
207 |
| Vance Publishing Acquires CattleNetwork, CattleStore. |
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Jul 17, 2008 |
436 |
| United States: Rupert Murdoch predicts news corp-Yahoo deal unlikely. |
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Jul 12, 2008 |
182 |
| United Kingdom: Yet Another Microsoft's Big Push To Acquire Yahoo. |
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Jul 11, 2008 |
195 |
| United Kingdom: The Saga Continues : Yet Another Microsoft's Big Push To Acquire Yahoo. |
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Jul 10, 2008 |
195 |
| IHS Acquires Log Assets of Reservoir Visualization, Inc. |
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Jul 9, 2008 |
580 |
| Haights Cross sells Oakstone Publishing, suspends other sales. |
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Brief article |
Jul 9, 2008 |
138 |
| United Kingdom: The Saga Continues : Yet Another Microsoft's Big Push To Acquire Yahoo. |
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Jul 8, 2008 |
195 |
| united states : Informa PLC, publisher of Lloyd's List, confirms takeover approach. |
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Jul 5, 2008 |
207 |
| United Kingdom : Informa PLC, publisher of Lloyd's List, confirms takeover approach. |
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Jul 3, 2008 |
133 |
| Getty Images Announces Completion of Acquisition by Hellman & Friedman. |
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Jul 2, 2008 |
1044 |
| LexisNexis acquires titles from Law Bulletin Publishing. |
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Jul 1, 2008 |
309 |
| Getty Images Stockholders Vote to Approve Acquisition by Hellman & Friedman. |
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Jun 20, 2008 |
700 |
| United Kingdom: Two U.S. equity firms mull bid for British publisher. |
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Jun 20, 2008 |
132 |
| United Kingdom: United Business, Informa cease discussions on merger. |
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Jun 20, 2008 |
172 |
| "Compliance Week" sold to Haymarket Media. |
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Jun 17, 2008 |
362 |
| "Alberta Oil" sold to venture publishing. |
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Jun 17, 2008 |
252 |
| Meanwhile, Cygnus Business Media (Westport, CT) CEO Carr Davis has confirmed that his company has begun exploratory talks with unnamed parties regarding a possible sale. |
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Brief article |
Jun 17, 2008 |
92 |
| Haymarket Media to acquire big bank and risk letter, Compliance Week. |
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Brief article |
Jun 16, 2008 |
185 |
| ESPN high school bound with new production deal: Network acquires Student Sports with eye on youth market. |
Sporich, Brett |
Brief article |
Jun 16, 2008 |
255 |
| United Kingdom : Candover, Cinven Considering Bid for Informa. |
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Jun 10, 2008 |
83 |
| Hal Leonard to acquire De Haske. |
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Brief article |
Jun 1, 2008 |
191 |
| "Latin Trade" sold to Manhattan Media. |
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Brief article |
Jun 1, 2008 |
255 |
| Summit Business Media acquires info services for financial advisors. |
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May 17, 2008 |
289 |
| HMP Comm. acquires Princeton Media Associates. |
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May 1, 2008 |
438 |
| CondeNet, Conde Nast's (New York) company-wide Web portal, has acquired SFO Media (New York), the producer of daily web magazines and blogs for frequent travelers, media professionals, business travelers, hoteliers, vacationers and travel enthusiasts worldwide. |
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May 1, 2008 |
87 |
| Mitchell pairs with rival. |
Allen, Mike |
Brief article |
Apr 21, 2008 |
98 |
| Adis Int'l acquires journals & launches new title. |
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Apr 17, 2008 |
301 |
| Altman Weil Publications sold to ALM. |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
325 |
| M&A: TRIBUNE, GANNETT, SP NEWSPRINT. |
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May 28, 2007 |
986 |
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