Polish publisher Agora, which has Poland’s number-two newspaper Gazeta.pl, has bought classifieds ads platform Trader.com for 120 million zlotys (£28.4 million) from Turkey’s Hurriyet. Agora said it’s aiming to become…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) announced today that it is acquiring 100 percent of the privately-owned Danish mobile social network ZYB for 31.5 million euros (£25 million) in cash. The network operator…

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As has already been widely reported, CBS (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring CNET (NSDQ: CNET) for $1.8 billion cash, marking the big acquisition we had anticipated and enabling CNET to avoid…

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Lycos Europe, which last month put itself up for sale after failing to offer a compelling website for several years, is hoping a US company will make an offer. In…

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Despite increasing its bid to £996 million ($1.938 billion) from £948 million ($1.844 billion), WPP Group has been rejected a second time by audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, The…

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Aegis Group has bought German online marketing consultancy rmsarcar.com, its second international digital acquisition in two weeks. Financial terms of the UK media buying firm’s purchase of rmsarcar were not…

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Carphone Warehouse is out of the running to acquire Italian broadband provider Tiscali, reports FT.com. Tiscali rejected the British mobile phone retailer and broadband provider from its shortlist after the…

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Llanelli, Carmarthenshire-based TV and interactive producer Tinopolis - which occupies what we Scarlets still call the “old Tesco building” - looks set to be bought by VC firm Vitruvian Partners…

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U.S. electronics store Best Buy said today that it is paying $2.1 billion for half of Carphone Warehouse in order to enter the European consumer electronics market, Reuters reports. Carphone’s…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock crept up slightly on various European markets on Tuesday, after plummeting as much as 12.9 percent Monday following Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) cancellation of its acquisition bid.…

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French advertising holding company Havas has increased its 40 percent stake in London ad shop Archibald Ingall Stretton as the two prepare a combined International network offering digital and creative…

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Although WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer to acquire audience researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres was rejected over the the weekend, the UK ad holding firm is still pressing the…

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Not that this is a surprise, since analysts have been saying since this weekend that the “no” is not the final no. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang now says…

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Mister Wong, a social bookmarking start-up based in Germany, has acquired Lifestream.fm, a service that lets users aggregate their web activity from various social networking services. The news was confirmed…

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Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres has rejected WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer as “opportunistic” and undervaluing the company, telegraph.co.uk reported. TNS has been trying to merge with…

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Private equity firm ECI has paid £45.5 million to acquire a 60 percent stake in interactive media shop i-level and its parent company ILG (SEO: 066570) Digital, the Guardian reported.…

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Not that this is a surprise: Atari’s biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has bought the struggling company after its non-binding offer earlier in March. The cost for…

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Not that anyone cares about it, but Lycos Europe, the independent Euroepan portal, has put itself up for sale, and has appointed Dresdner Kleinwort as its advisor. Its reasoning and…

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Sanoma Magazines, the European magazine and online publisher, is continuing on its acquisition streak, this time in Bulgaria: it has bought 68 percent stake in NetInfo.BG, one of the bigger…

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Zyb, the mobile phonebook service founded in Denmark, has bought out by Danish mobile social networking company, Danish Bluetooth-based mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum. Zyb itself…

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Adding yet another overseas string to its bow, advertising group WPP’s WPP Digital division is buying a minority stake in Chinese rich media ad delivery outfit HDT Holdings Technologies. HDT…

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SCi Entertainment, the LSE-traded games publisher that owns the popular Lara Croft Tomb Raider franchise, is close to finalizing a $100 million issue, and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) could become…

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Mobile VoIP service Truphone has raised a big £16.5 million in second-round funding from its existing backers, led by private investors. Independent News & Media and German publisher Burda’s digital…

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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Lovefilm‘s acquisition of Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) DVD rental business despite significant earlier competition concerns. The deal, under which Amazon is handing over…

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