Vivendi has confirmed a bid for Orange-owned YouTube rival Dailymotion. The French media group, which owns Universal Music and Canal+, confirmed reports it was in talks to buy a majority stake in the video site, in a deal thought to be worth €250m (£182.6m) for a 75 to 80 per cent share.
Clio Online’s portfolio offers a range of digital learning portals for a majority of subjects and grades, accompanied by an advanced learning management platform.
Trade shows have become a particularly sought after asset in media M&A lately. B2B publisher 1105 Media has just sold its education technology events to LRP Publications
French industrialist Vincent Bolloré has increased his stake in Vivendi, tightening his grip on the media and content group on the eve of a showdown with activist shareholders.
Organiser Clarion Events has announced the acquisition of Internet Retail Events Ltd from SJP Business Media.
Xaxis, the world’s largest global programmatic media and technology platform, has agreed to acquire Action Exchange, Inc., a leading mobile performance-based marketing business with an e-commerce orientation in the United States
Daily Mirror publisher understood to be looking at £200m deal for group owning titles that include the Nottingham Post and the Cambridge News. Local World
IHS Inc., a leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced it has acquired the business assets of Dataium, a U.S.-based company that provides essential business intelligence and analysis to the automotive industry.
This creates a new national exhibition for Switzerland, which in future will bring together the entire value chain of logistics, packaging, distribution and trade under one roof.
Easyfairs has acquired Northeral, organiser of pharmaceutical technology trade show, Maghreb Pharma Expo in Africa
Access Intelligence, a platform publisher targeting a number of B2B market verticals—and parent company of Folio:—is set to announce it has acquired the AdMonsters and OPS events from 8 Meter Media.
Storyful verifies the authenticity of videos posted on platforms such as Facebook, using publicly available reference points, including mapping
Law Business Research, an independent publisher of research, data and analysis on international business law and international legal markets, has acquired the assets and brand of Just Anti-Corruption, a leading provider of daily news on international anti-corruption enforcement.
Publicis Groupe has acquired Expicient Inc. a leading global omni-channel services firm with significant expertise in inventory and order management systems (OMS), a capability that clients increasingly need to manage inventory, pricing and offers across channels for today’s connected consumer who moves fluidly across digital and physical stores
Following a successful City roadshow, led by chief executive Trevor Mather, books were closed early yesterday on the £2billion-plus flotation of Auto Trader, which operates Britain’s leading website for buying and selling new and used cars
Trinity Mirror are in talks with Richard Desmond about potentially buying the Daily Express
An investment company aiming to buy telecoms, media and technology companies in a consolidating European market has received backing from a range of institutional funds managed by Neil Woodford, Fidelity and Standard Life
Unibail-Rodamco SE, Europe’s largest listed commercial property company, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris Ile-deFrance (CCIR) have entered into an agreement with U.K.-based private equity firm Charterhouse to take over Unibail’s 50 percent stake in Comexposium. This offer values Comexposium at €550 million ($816 million)
ITV has bought the makers of BBC1’s The Voice, Dutch production company Talpa Media, for £355m in a deal that could end up costing more than double that
The flotation, which would probably propel Auto Trader into the FTSE 250 index, would value the company at 14-18 times its last reported earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation.
