Oodle was one of the largest digital classified ad operators. Now it has fallen in to multiple hands after Adzuna snaps up UK assets of the firm recently sold to QVC. Read more »
German publisher Axel Springer is buying heavily in to European classified sites to court digital and international growth. Snapping up Belgian property service Immoweb, it says the move will make up for a weakening print ad sector. Read more »
Central Europe’s Piano Media has tried to build nationwide shared “paywalls” for dozens of news sites. Now it is acquiring a technology startup to offer news meters that can’t be defeated by deleting cookies. Read more »
From the death spiral of ad downturn, digital audience migration and a thousand cuts, one man emerges to try some long-expected consolidation in the local news market. But can the proposed Local World company get going? Read more »
Last week’s report is now confirmed, after Pearson and Bertelsmann took the weekend to hammer out a merger of their book publishers. But what is the rationale behind the big deal? Read more »
Magazine publisher Burda wants to take complete ownership of LinkedIn rival Xing, while rival Axel Springer is selling a games site to focus on its growing online content and classifieds business. Read more »
Consolidation is continuing apace in digital marketing, as one of advertising’s big four agencies lines up to buy one of the last remaining large specialist digital ad outfits. Read more »
“Freeview is shaking off the limitations of its spectrum,” is the declaration of a company that has been acquired by the UK’s big television infrastructure firm to inject internet content in to terrestrial broadcasts. Read more »
Bosses of fast-growing online sports broadcaster Perform Group earned millions last week when they cashed out some shares. But their company remains focused on building up by bolting on global sports sites. Read more »
Facing off against Sainsbury’s with a string of digital content vendor acquisitions, Tesco is now buying e-book store maker Mobcast for £4.5 million to translate its success in the aisles to the net. Read more »
Real-time soccer fantasy betting outfit Picklive’s founders look toward their next early-stage startup, after selling to digital pools operator Sports Millions. Read more »
Playfire, a website through which gamers connect and share their playing prowess, is merging with a specialist game download retailer, in a small deal that may be a further sign of the social/commerce nexus. Read more »
Five years after it acquired public-sector technology research firm Kable (here was our story), Guardian News & Media (GNM) is off-loading the outfit. Read more »
Digital marketing professionals’ site Econsultancy is selling to B2B publisher Centaur, in the latest of several planned acquisitions and in a deal that puts a price on specialist digital publishers. Read more »
The world’s largest advertising agency is buying yet another specialist digital outfit – this time, it’s one of the sector’s biggest, and it will form the basis of a new Silicon Valley digital investment strategy. Read more »
French magazine and book publisher and broadcaster Lagardère, which underperforms in digital media, has succeeded in acquiring a majority of shopping site LeGuide.com to bolster its efforts. Read more »
German news publisher and multimedia conglomerate Axel Springer is laying down an increasing amount of cash to re-invent itself as a digital player. Now it is buying a position in one of Poland’s most popular web portals, Onet.pl. Read more »
One of the poster boys for online specialist entrepreneurial journalism is selling to a price comparison website. But can independent personal finance guru Martin Lewis keep his legion followers happy? Read more »
Fresh from its IPO, the increasingly good-looking online sports video and betting outfit Perform is buying big to add live match data to its services. Read more »
Japan’s largest mobile telco is about to buy in to mobile media content in Europe and farther afield, by acquiring one of the space’s pioneer companies. Read more »
Social games development company, Zattikka incorporated on Monday, has gone public on London’s AIM exchange and is rolling up independent studios it hopes can give it some of Zynga’s gold. It was started by Virgin Interactive games executives Tim Chaney (pictured) and Mark Opzoomer. Read more »
The market for job classified ads may be gloomy at present, but Mail Online publisher DMGT is buying further in to it, by acquiring the Jobrapido recruitment site for up to €30 million Read more »
Reed Business Information’s sell-offs really aren’t over yet. Now it is selling the UK’s number-two job classifieds site, TotalJobs, to German publisher Axel Springer’s equivalent StepStone for a hefty $175 million. Read more »
Data Explorers, an analytics and analysis firm which helps subscribers track short-selling in stocks, is the latest acquisition of financial… Read more »
PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Economist journalist to measure Twitter users’ influence in topics, is taki… Read more »
Microstock photo repository Fotolia is expanding within its crowdsourced-creativity segment by acquiring Wilogo, a site through which startu… Read more »
Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it wants to buy News Corp.’s TV set-top box software maker NDS Group for $5 billion to improve its own offering and… Read more »
After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China’s fast-growing online video market… Read more »
CNN might yet end up as the owner of Mashable but it’s not imminent despite a single-source report from Felix Salmon at *Reuters*. Read more »
Internet TV box service Roku is prepared to take on a big and high-risk new investment to support its international ambitions. Read more »
Facebook’s value has risen to $100 billion since its IPO announcement, based on private trades of its stock. But could Mark Zuckerberg justi… Read more »
E-books you borrow from the library may soon be stored on the cloud and available to read in your web browser. Read more »
With Facebook’s advertising fortunes taking off, one cog in that machine has become an M&A target. Social marketing platform operator Buddy… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is still waiting for the Chinese government to approve its purchase of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility, but it Read more »
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s main business unit aims to delist from the Hong Kong stock market – but says the move is unrelated… Read more »
Shareholders in big Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment (NSDQ: SNDA) have voted in favour of a proposal by which… Read more »
One of the more popular instant messaging mobile apps is taking a $10 (£6.32) million investment from a Russian investor. Read more »
The seven-year-old personalised web content dashboard service Netvibes has confirmed it has been acquired by 3D and CAD software maker Dassa… Read more »
Google’s bid for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) is likely to get a thumbs up from the U.S. Department of Justice, but still could face opposition from… Read more »
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, t… Read more »
