Expedia Buying Out RenRen To Grab More Of Chinese Travel's eLong
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Expedia is buying Chinese social network Renren out of its stake in global travel site eLong. Read more »
Mobile Consolidation As Velti Buys MIG For Up To $54 Million
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Some big consolidation is afoot in mobile marketing and technology services with San Francisco-based Velti buying London’s UK market-leading… Read more »
USA Today Acquires Mixed-Martial Arts Site MMAjunkie
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USA Today is continuing to try to build up its digital side, as the print business struggles on, with another purchase designed to appeal to… Read more »
EMI Group Split Between UMG And Sony
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group – the record music division, EMI M… Read more »
Google Takes Two: Buys Apture To Enhance Chrome, Katango To Beef Up Google+
Not one but two tech acquisitions were announced by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) today: Apture and Katango, both of which point to Google’s ambition… Read more »
RLJ Equity Acquires Media Source, Owner Of School Library Journal & Others
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If you’ve ever wondered how certain books wind up on library shelves, or how your children’s school librarian chooses which books to buy, th… Read more »
Video Ads Landgrab: Adconion, Blinkx Buy Smartclip, PVMG
Two new acquisitions underscore how M&A is fuelling ongoing consolidation in the still-growing online video advertising segment. Read more »
Kobo Acquired By Japanese E-Commerce Firm Rakuten For $315 Million
E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. The company says it will c… Read more »
Yahoo Buys Interclick Amid Consolidation Of Ad Data Providers
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Yahoo’s announcement that it is acquiring data management platform interclick for $270 million comes amid a wave of ad tech deals, which are… Read more »
Clearspring Acquires Social Data Tool XGraph
Just a month after installing ex-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Right Media head Ramsey McGrory as CEO, content distribution engine Clearspring has acqu… Read more »
Adobe, Looking To Grab Rising Online Video Ad Dollars, Buys Auditude
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is continuing to build its advertising business through major acquisitions and this time, it’s buying Auditude, which ope… Read more »
Urban Airship Snaps Up SimpleGeo, Adding Location To Mobile Dev Services
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Two startups hoping to be at the center of a shift in development priorities to mobile are joining forces. Urban Airship, which provides not… Read more »
HarperCollins’ Acquisition Of Thomas Nelson Is An Investment In Digital
HarperCollins is acquiring Christian publisher Thomas Nelson–publisher of the mega-bestselling Heaven Is For Real–for $200 million in a de… Read more »
Music Service Aspiro Sells A Stake To Norwegian Retailer
Aspiro, the other Swedish unlimited music service operator, is selling a 6.5 percent stake to Norwegian entertainment retailer Platekompanie… Read more »
Sony Buys Ericsson Out Of JV To Make ‘Four-Screen Strategy’ With Mobile
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has confirmed it is buying Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) out of their Sony Ericsson mobile handset-making joint venture for €1.05… Read more »
Amazon’s Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK
Despite industry organizations’ fears that Amazon’s acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly,… Read more »
Meredith’s Marketing Push Goes Global With Stake In Iris
Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP), the publisher of women’s magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle and local TV operator, has… Read more »
Sainsbury’s Supermarket Buying Media Vault To Launch Digital Content Retail
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J. Sainsbury’s is spending £1 ($1.56) million to buy Global Media Vault, a white-label digital entertainment distribution vendor, to power… Read more »
Mobile App Maker Future Platforms Sells To Vexed Digital Agency
Future Platforms, which made mobile apps for Orange, AA, the BBC and Lastminute.com, is being bought by the Vexed Digital agency of London. Read more »
RIM, Chasing Its Own iCloud, Buys NewBay For $100 Million
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Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, a… Read more »
Mediabrands Acquires Social Marketer Spring Creek
Interpublic Group’s media agency and digital hub Mediabrands has acquired social marketing agency Spring Creek Group. The deal, terms of whi… Read more »
Three Years Later, Microsoft Attempting Another Bid For Yahoo?
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) shareholders rue the day when merger talks between the company and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) broke down three years ago, but… Read more »
Federated Media Buys Blog Search Tool Lijit Networks
About five months after raising a $10 million fifth round, blog search tools provider Lijit Networks has been sold to blog network Federated… Read more »
Mobile Ad Consolidation Continues: Fetch Media Buys Lucidity Mobile
Some more signs of consolidation in the mobile advertising and marketing space, this time on the agency side: UK-based Fetch Media has bough… Read more »
China’s ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China’s ‘YouTube’ 56.com
A fusion of social and video in China… Renren, the social network which listed on Wall Street this spring, is acquiring the user-uploaded… Read more »
IMImobile Buys In To Mobile Broadcasting By Acquiring App Maker Skinkers
Skinkers, the veteran Microsoft-funded maker of desktop alert apps and, latterly, mobile apps, is being bought by Indian mobile infrastructu… Read more »
TechMediaNetwork Raises $33 Million For Acquisitions
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Tech and science publisher TechMediaNetwork has raised $33 million in a second round as it looks to add its content roster with a series of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-26-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks (NYT)
» Mediabank Merges With Donovan; Combined Company… Read more »
Mobile Interactive Group Buys Digital Jigsaw, Seeks More Cross-Platform Biz
Some more consolidation in the digital marketing space, with one of the UK’s bigger mobile specialists, Mobile Interactive Group, showing th… Read more »
Mediabank Merges With Donovan; Combined Company Called ‘MediaOcean’
Both Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank have been working to expand the methods of online media buying and selling to traditional media thro… Read more »
Twitter Now Accepts Political Ads; Acquires Julpan
As the 2012 campaign for the White House starts heating up, Twitter says it will start accepting political advertising. Starting today, cand… Read more »
Japan’s E-commerce Giant Rakuten Buying Play.com For £25 Million
It’s not all about online content distribution, you know?
Play.com, the UK site that sells games, movies, music and more on ye olde plastic… Read more »
Glam CEO Samir Arora: No Plans To Force Ning Advertising Rev Share
Why buy Ning? Aside from the obvious aspects — more scale and better stats for a possible IPO, an expanded ad network, subscription revenue… Read more »
Andreessen’s Ning Finds Its Exit; Acquired By Glam Media
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Co-founded by Marc Andreessen, Ning, once among the highest-profile social network startups, gave up on its grandest plans a while ago and d… Read more »
Update: Google Buys Groupon Clone And Launches Wallet In Quest For Commerce
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o… Read more »
Excite Europe Owner Buys A Blog Network To Chase Content Heft
Dublin- and Rome-based blog network and Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) lookalike Populis is buying its second blog network of the year. Read more »
Wal-Mart Buys Ad Targeter OneRiot
WalMart may be better known for its great savings for shoppers, but it’s also becoming known for its acquisitions of online advertising comp… Read more »
Penthouse Owner Swaps New Stock For Asian Daily Deals Site
What do you get when you cross Groupon with a porn site? FriendFinder Networks is about to find out.
The Penthouse publisher and adult soci… Read more »
M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up
Brief news on several acquisitions from companies looking to expand in payment provision, Lat America, gaming and the daily deals space… Read more »
Canal+ Buying Broadcaster To Defend Against Online Upstarts
Vivendi’s pay TV arm Canal+ is to acquire Vincent Bollore’s free-to-air television business in a €465m (£404m) deal, a move the company s… Read more »
