Reed to buy US healthcare data business to boost Lexis Nexis

EUROPE’S largest media group Reed Elsevier yesterday agreed to buy a US healthcare data firm, in a deal City A.M. understands to be worth around $150m (£95.27m), to boost its Lexis Nexis business in the world’s largest healthcare market. Health Market Science is data supplier for healthcare profes­sion­als in the US with a vast medical […]

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TES Global Invests in Diagnostic Questions

ES Global – the largest network of teachers in the world with over six million registered teachers – has announced a significant investment in Barton Woodhead Education Ltd. – developers of Diagnostic Questions (http://www.DiagnosticQuestions.com), a website that allows teachers to create and share ‘hinge’ questions that instantly identify student misconceptions in maths

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Skymet Weather raises $4.5M in Series B funding from Daily Mail arm, Omnivore

Noida- and Mumbai-based weather forecasting services provider Skymet Weather Services Pvt Ltd has raised approximately $4.5 million (Rs 27.6 crore) in its Series B round of venture financing from dmg::information Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of British media conglomerate Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), with participation from existing investor Omnivore Partners.

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IMS Health pays €385m for Cegedim businesses

IMS Health has paid €385m to acquire several of Cegedim’s information solutions and customer relationship management (CRM) businesses. The deal is expected to be competed in early 2015 at which point IMS Health, which provides information and technology services to the healthcare industry, will take control of a Cegedim CRM portfolio that covers 80 countries […]

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