Mergers & Acquisitions

FCC Chief To Recommend Clearing XM-Sirius Deal; Conditions Include A La Carte Subscription - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 16 Jun 2008 12:35 AM PST

Everyone has “learned” it at the same time: U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin will recommend clearing Sirius Satellite Radio’s (NSDQ: SIRI) proposed purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio…

Torstar Digital Buys Toronto Interactive Shop EyeReturn Marketing - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sat 14 Jun 2008 07:42 PM PST

Torstar Digital, the online arm of Canadian media company Torstar Corp., has acquired fellow Toronto resident EyeReturn Marketing. Terms were not disclosed. Torstar says it plans to keep the eight-year-old…

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 08:06 PM PST

In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the European part of the business,…

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Updated: Choppy Waters For Weather Channel: Time Warner Withdraws Bid; NBCU In Exclusive Talks - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 10:42 AM PST

The auction for Weather Channel hasn’t gone very smoothly, and now one of the major suitors left in the field, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), withdrew its bid to buy it,…

So, Microsoft Buys AOL Now? - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 13 Jun 2008 10:05 AM PST

It’s probably just pure fantasy, but maybe the Yahoo-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) story is actually over this time (knock on wood). If so it means that the end result of Microsoft’s…

Austin Ventures and Another PE Firm Buying Entrepreneur Media - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 09:50 AM PST

Entrepreneur Media, the Irvine, CA-based media company which focuses on small-business owners, is being bought by two private equity firms, and Austin Ventures is the lead, paidContent.org has learned. The…

Yahoo-Google: Analysts: Yahoo Trading Relevance For Cash; No Regulatory Slam Dunk; MSFT-YHOO Still? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 13 Jun 2008 06:39 AM PST

You already know how the market reacted to yesterday’s news: Shares of Yahoo got slammed, as an ad deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was seen as a poor substitute to…

Macrovision Acquires Assets From ThoughtWorthy Media For TV Search And Metadata - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 13 Jun 2008 05:30 AM PST

A small deal for Macrovision… the company says it has acquired technology and the website of ThoughtWorthy Media, a vertical, TV-related search engine. The agreement was entered back into January…

Updated: Disney Buys Pittman-Backed Green Site IdealBite; Price Around $20M; DigiSynd Deal Closes - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Jun 2008 04:58 PM PST

Updated with the correct sale price: Disney (NYSE: DIS) has bought out IdealBite, a small green-living online media company based in San Francisco, we have learned. The price is around…

Thomson Reuters Disposing Of Business Info Service Dialog to Proquest - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Jun 2008 02:14 PM PST

Dialog, one of the oldest electronic/online informations businesses, is being disposed of by the newly merged Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN). It is being sold to ProQuest. Terms of the deal…

ESPN Acquires Student Sports, Inc. For High-School Sports Initiative ESPN RISE - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 12 Jun 2008 08:02 AM PST

ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is acquiring Student Sports, Inc., a Torrance, Calif.-based digital media and event producer with a focus on high school sports. Assets include StudentSports.com, DyeStat.com and more than…

Reed Business Buys UK-Based B2B Marketplace Site ApprovedIndex - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Jun 2008 07:59 AM PST

Reed Business Information, which itself is in the process of a messy sale, has made an acquisition through its UK arm RBI UK: it bought out UK-based B2B marketplace and…

Legal Watch: Take-Two Subpoena; CNET Lawsuit - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 11 Jun 2008 02:40 PM PST

A couple of developments on the legal front from companies dealing with possible transactions… -- Take-Two: The video game maker facing a hostile threat from Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) disclosed…

Fortcom Takes 70 Percent Stake In Polish Social Net Nasza-Klasa - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 11 Jun 2008 11:03 AM PST

Forticom, an Estonian company that runs major Lithuanian social net One.lT, has acquired a 70 percent stake in Russian Nasza-Klasa, for $90 million (PLN 200 million), reports Warsaw Business Journal,…

Weather Channel Parent Landmark Turns Attention Towards Publishing Arm Sale - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 11 Jun 2008 04:21 AM PST

With the sale of The Weather Channel in its final innings—it’s down to Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and NBC/BlackRock by all reports—parent company Landmark is now exploring the sale of…

Bertelsmann Wants $1.5 Billion For Sony BMG Stake, Talks ‘Advanced’: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 11 Jun 2008 02:08 AM PST

Finally, some meat on the bone of the “Bertelsmann wants to quit music” story. An unnamed source tells FT Deutschland the German media group wants to sell its 50 percent…

Yahoo: Severance Plan Not ‘Nuts’; Not Easily Revoked; And It Wouldn’t Cost Microsoft $2.4 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 10 Jun 2008 02:34 PM PST

Following the latest twist in the shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Carl Icahn’s continued jabs, Yahoo has filed an FAQ with the SEC, detailing everything you wanted to…

French Social Net Skyrock.com Seeking Sale To Telco, Talks Ongoing - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 10 Jun 2008 12:14 PM PST

Skyrock.com, one of the bigger online social networks and based out of France, is talking with several suitors about a sale, as it nears divestment from its partner radio station’s…

Yahoo Shareholders Want Severance Plan Struck Down; Claim Invalid Under Delaware Law - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 10 Jun 2008 11:30 AM PST

As Carl Icahn has honed in on Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) severance plan as a key vulnerability, so too have the shareholders suing the company. In a motion filed yesterday (.pdf,…

CBS Gets Anti-Trust Clearance on CNET Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 Jun 2008 11:05 AM PST

Not that this was going to be an issue, but the CBS’ (NYSE: CBS) buyout of CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks is moving along, and more significantly, no other bidders have…

Haymarket Media Buys Compliance Week - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 10 Jun 2008 10:43 AM PST

Haymarket Media, the US arm of the UK-based publisher of magazines like PR Week and Management Today, has bought Financial Media Holding Group’s Compliance Week. Terms were not disclosed. A…

More Informa-UBM: Springer Owners Mull A Bid - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 Jun 2008 10:29 AM PST

More on the big B2B consolidation story which started last weekend: After the news came out that UBM and Informa were in early talks for a $6 billion merger, some…

HealthCentral Network Buys Consumer Health Info Service MedTrackAlert - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 Jun 2008 07:59 AM PST

HealthCentral Network, the online consumer health info network, has bought out consumer health info company MedTrackAlert. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. MedTrackAlert was started in 2006, and…

SanDisk Acquires MusicGremlin For Alternate Music Delivery Model - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 10 Jun 2008 04:47 AM PST

SanDisk (NSDQ: SNDK), the maker of the Sansa line of MP3 players (a distant iPod competitor), has acquired MusicGremlin, a maker of technology to deliver music over Wi-Fi. Terms of…

Industry Moves: Fox Appoints Erik Moreno As New SVP Of Corp Dev - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 09 Jun 2008 03:26 PM PST

Fox Networks Group has added more arsenal on its corp dev/M&A side: it has appointed Erik Moreno as its new SVP, reporting to Mike Lang, the EVP of the corp…