Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group of buyers: private equity groups Providence Equity Partners and Carlyle are working on a 1.8 billion pound ($3.53 billion) cash bid, according to the company. This would be among…

Norman Pearlstine is joining Bloomberg L.P. in the new position of chief content officer, partnering with Matthew Winkler, founder and editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. Pearlstine leaves The Carlyle Group, where he has been senior advisor for telecom and media, and returns to the news world. To run down the familiar…

IAC (NSDQ: IACI), in the process of splitting up into five companies, is making a major bet in the online health information sector, a new-ish area for the company: it is buying a major (though still minority) stake in HealthCentral Network, a network of consumer health information sites based in…

During the first private equity discussion of the day, panelists were patting themselves on the back, talking up the transformative powers of PE firms, while predicting a quick turnaround in credit conditions. By contrast, during his keynote interview at the Media and Money Conference, media industry veteran turned private equity…

Contrary to popular belief, there’s more to private equity than leverage and cost cutting… at least that’s what the panelists on the private equity panel at the Media and Money Conference tried to emphasize. While those things are admittedly part of the equation, private equity can play a role in…