Robert Andrews
May 4, 2010 3:38 AM
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said back in January it wanted to sell Interactive Data Corporation, its financial market data analytics provider. And now it is - for a pretty sum. Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus funds are teaming for a $33.86-a-share acquisition totalling $3.4 billion. If that’s an eyebrow-raiser, well Pearson…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 15, 2008 12:58 PM
Czech Republic’s biggest online portal Seznam is in the process of being sold, at least the majority of it, and the price could reach as much as $900 million, according to local reports. And the names in contention to buy it include domestic media group Mediatel and Google (NSDQ: GOOG),…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 7, 2008 7:00 AM
Scott Meyer, the former CEO of About.com who left the company in February this year, is joining private equity firm Warburg Pincus, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, starting today. Meyer will be based in New York City, and will be looking at primarily middle market/growth equity companies in the Internet and media space…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 11, 2008 12:25 PM
RegionalHelpWanted.com, a network of about 350 geographically focused online job boards, has been bought out by OnTargetJobs.com, a Texas-based recruitment-site aggregator. RHW, launched in 1999 and based in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., operates its sites under the “...HelpWanted.com” brand in U.S. and the “...JobShop.com” brand in Canada, and also owns dating site…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 4, 2007 2:38 PM
NetCentrum, the publisher of the number-two Czech portal Centrum, has sold a controlling stake to the Warburg Pincus private equity fund for an undisclosed amount. Warburg, which also has an investment in Indian portal Rediff, took a majority stake but NetCentrum founders Ondrej Tomek and Oldrich Bajer retain minority holdings,…
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