Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which recently broke merger talked with United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has confirmed that it received a tentative big approach from a private equity consortium which would value the business at about $6.8 billion, including debt. The bid is a joint one from Providence Equity…

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…

The big B2B merger was not to be…United Business Media (LSE: UBM) and Informa have ended merger talks, the two companies notified today. They said the talks between them remained at a very prelim stage, and never moved beyond it…wonder if the stories about UBM actually buying Informa instead of…

More on the big B2B consolidation story which started last weekend: After the news came out that UBM and Informa were in early talks for a $6 billion merger, some more bidders have emerged for Informa: The owners of German publisher Springer Science & Business Media are considering a possible…

United Business Media and Informa, two of the biggest B2B media companies, are in talks for a merger, the two companies said over the weekend after news of the talks leaked. There is no certainty the deal will happen at this stage. Informa has a market value of 1.64 billion…

Another deal in the hot health info space… Hearst has acquired Map of Medicine, a UK-based medical info service targeting doctors, from B2B media firm Informa. The web-accessible service, launched in 2000 and acquired by Informa in 2005, offers decision-making tools based on so-called evidence-based healthcare principles. The company has…

One of the other possible major parties that could have been interested in buying Reed Business Information, the UK-based B2B trade media firm Informa, has come out and said it is not interested in a bid. Informa reported its 2007 earnings today, and CEO Peter Rigby said that with advertising…

The UK-based B2B media and info giant Informa keeps getting bigger through acquisitions: it has agreed to buy market-intelligence firm Datamonitor for 502 million GBP ($994.9 million) in cash, or 650 pence per share, reports WSJ. The acquisition will add extra business data and content to its portfolio—especially in the…