-- Music Trade News: ToyNews and CasualGaming.biz publisher Intent Media has bought Music Trade News from from publisher MB Media, and will merge it with its own Musical Instruments Professional…

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The acquisition of our parent company, ContentNext Media, is a major change for us, but it also marks a turning point for the UK company to which we now belong.…

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After facing strict regulatory approval, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it has officially closed the $8.1 billion acquisition of digital map company Navteq, which was before its expected Aug. 8…

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You’re reading it here first... Italian social media entertainment operator Dada has bought a 10 percent stake in the owner of interactive on-demand TV channel Music Box for €750,000, as…

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CareerBuilder, the job site now owned collectively by Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Tribune Company, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), has made an international acquisition: it has bought out Lesjeudis.com,…

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As expected, WPP Group is making a hostile bid for audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, which has rejected the ad holding company’s three previous offers, Reuters reports. That in…

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BT (NYSE: BT) is making a somewhat late play in the online classifieds space, buying classifieds website operator Ufindus for £20 million in cash. The telco lost its monopoly over…

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US lifestyle guide Spire.com, a social networking site for folks whose net worth is $250k or more, is buying London-based Suzanne’s Files, a high-end content site bringing in 55,000 readers.…

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Alterian, a London-based marketing services company, has bought online content manager Mediasurface. Shares of the combined company are expected to begin trading on July 9 on the London Stock Exchange,…

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Italian online entertainment publisher Dada has bought another 40 percent of blog network Blogo.it‘s owner E-box for €1.6 million, taking its stake up to 70 percent. Blogo.it is Italy’s most…

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Market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) is really playing hard ball with Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP. It has now rejected yet another bid - an improved offer that, at…

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Babel Media, a Brighton-based firm that localises and tests video games and interactive entertainment, has been acquired by India’s Quatrro BPO for an undisclosed amount. New York investment group DE…

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Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which recently broke merger talked with United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has confirmed that it received a tentative big approach from a private equity consortium…

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WPP Group’s Wunderman, which has been reforming itself into a digital shop over the past year, has taken an unspecified, majority stake in Kassius, a Paris-based ad shop, games manufacturer…

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FotoDesk, a Switzerland-based online imaging software company, has bought out two photo related sites: it has bought online digital photo printing company Colorplaza SA, a portfolio company of New Value…

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NDS, the UK-based DRM and conditional access firm which is majority owned by News Corp, is now being taken private: News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is teaming up with Permira Advisers,…

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As we have been reporting since the start of these talks, Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has finally announced the acquisition of troubled MVNO Helio. We originally broke the news…

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Six years ago, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). lost some 2 billion euros in its investment into the German media and pay-TV company Kirch Group that eventually went bankrupt. But the…

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-- Microsoft Buying Portugal’s MobiComp For Mobile Data Backup And Storage: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) continues its push into the mobile space… the software giant will acquire Mobicomp, a Portugal-based mobile…

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France-based European online media firm Hi-Media has now extended its reach in mobile markets and has bought out local mobile market firm Mobile Trend. The deals includes a total consideration…

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IPC Media is buying Mousebreaker, a Miniclip-style casual minigames website aimed at men, for a “seven-figure” sum - it’s first web-only play in the male market, MediaWeek reports. The site…

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UPDATED: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants it all. The Finnish handset maker said today that it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian, that it…

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Russian news publisher Kommersant has acquired half of LiveJournal owner Sup in exchange for giving the blog operator control of its Gazeta.ru news portal. LiveJournal had integrated its features in…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is continuing on its social media related acquisition trail: it has now bought out Zurich and Berlin-based social networking service Plazes. Terms of the deal were not…

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OleOle, the Beverly Hills-based soccer community that’s trying to get fans to write the editorial, has followed its recent acquisition of the Arseblog Arsenal weblog by buying eight more independent…

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