Reed Business Information, which has avoided its own sell-off by off-loading many of its own titles, is now in buying mode, acquiring Ascend… Read more »
News Corporation’s Australian division has acquired a series of parenting and child-related blog sites headed by Kidspot. Read more »
Several parties are still negotiating to buy all or part of MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), building to a possible conclusion before News Corp.’s fisca… Read more »
Going up against Groupon’s own plan to buy itself international scale, LivingSocial just acquired its way in to three more regions. Read more »
UBM, which has been divesting some of its titles lately whilst buying up in India and Asia, is selling its UK entertainment and technology t… Read more »
The publicly-listed online dating website Cupid is buying two 75 percent of German businesses, OnlineLiebe and WomenWeb, for a combined €2… Read more »
A new agreement between Disney (NYSE: DIS) and online video joint venture Hulu includes transfer rights to a new owner, paidContent has lear… Read more »
The private equity turnaround company which took Bebo off AOL’s hands is negotiating a buy-out of the underperforming UK TV site SeeSaw, whi… Read more »
Social media marketer Say Media has acquired interactive advertising agency Sideshow as the company looks to offer more customized services… Read more »
The aggressive sales pitch that AT&T (NYSE: T) has attached to its landmark acquisition of T-Mobile claimed its first victim over the weeken… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has acquired nine-year-old DVR software company SageTV, in a move apparently designed to enhance its Google TV products. Read more »
Ad agency services firm DG (fka DG Fastchannel) is acquiring online/offline media buying tool MediaMind Technologies for $517 million. The g… Read more »
Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) has made a cash bid of $1.375 billion for bankrupt telecom Terrestar Networks, Reuters reports, as it looks to fen… Read more »
Mobile music identifier Shazam is making its first ever acquisition, buying technology from Tunezee that shows song lyrics in sync with a cu… Read more »
Unless the regulatory process is somehow speeded up in the case of Google’s latest acquisition of Admeld, the estimated $400 million deal th… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has confirmed last week’s word that it was buying supply side platform Admeld, with Neal Mohan, Google VP of product man… Read more »
Facebook, which now seems to redesign its interface every six months or so, is acquiring Sofa, an Amsterdam-based design firm that makes ico… Read more »
A year after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) spent $70 million to buy demand side platform Invite Media, the search giant is now building up the other s… Read more »
» The $315 million merger between AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Huffington Post has brought a lot of negative scrutiny since the deal was s… Read more »
Magazines aren’t just about editorial anymore. Case in point, the parent of Hollywood-focused trade mag Variety has acquired TVtracker, an… Read more »
More than two years after UK ad holding company Aegis first considered selling off its marketing and research unit Synovate, the company is… Read more »
More evidence of RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) meaning business when it comes to social media and consumer apps, and a possible sign of how it might pote… Read more »
Photo distribution company Getty Images has finalized its acquisition of stock images service Photolibrary as it seeks to expand its interna… Read more »
Surveying the digital M&A landscape a few months ago, WPP Group talked about “some speculative froth” has developing in markets like Brazil,… Read more »
A flurry of announcements came out of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) were dropped this morning, pointing to several new directi… Read more »
After refusing to confirm the deal rumoured over recent weeks, Twitter and TweetDeck have now announced the latter’s acquisition by the form… Read more »
Here’s the fourth social media marketing M&A news we’ve written so far this week (and it’s only Wednesday)…
Punktilio, an agency co-found… Read more »
Another big deal in corporate adoption of social media marketing – Tesco’s majority-owned Dunnhumby consumer analyst is buying 10-year-old s… Read more »
Local online marketing firm Yodle acquired ProfitFuel, a company that provides search engine optimization services to small businesses. The… Read more »
It’s not official yet, but Twitter filed papers on Monday to acquire the TweetDeck microblog client for over $40 million in cash and stock,… Read more »
Facebook for $80 billion? LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) at $9 billion?
“There does not appear to be a bubble forming for the technology sector as a… Read more »
Nielsen is set to acquire the remaining stake in NeuroFocus, a company that applies brainwave research to advertising, programming and messa… Read more »
HMV’s sale of Waterstone’s, one of the UK’s leading booksellers, removes some weight from around HMV’s neck, but doesn’t necessarily set Wat… Read more »
HMV (LSE: HMV) has sold its Waterstone’s book chain to a fund controlled by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 ($85.79)m. Read more »
Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a ser… Read more »
What are venture capital firms looking for in mobile startups? Think emotional value and rethink the economics of content, Albert Wenger, a… Read more »
Glam Media has acquired Britain’s BabyWorld community site, a purchase that’s meant to both spur the company’s growth in the “family/parenti… Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is paying $28 million for 5to1, an online ad marketplace that lets top brand advertisers purchase unsold premium inventor… Read more »
Several fundings in digital media today…
– Simfy: The German web-based freemium unlimited-music service, like We7, has raised €10 mill… Read more »
Sell-side platform PubMatic has acquired ReviNet, a smaller publisher advertising optimizer. The deal, terms of which were undisclosed, are… Read more »
