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Youku And Tudou Merge To Create Chinese Online Video Powerhouse

After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the large...

By Robert Andrews  
Red Bee Buying TV Genius To Makes Its Video Player Cleverer
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Red Bee Buying TV Genius To Makes Its Video Player Cleverer
By Robert Andrews  
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Amazon Buys Lovefilm’s IPTV App Designer Pushbutton
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Lolapps, 6waves Merge For Social Games Heft
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Moonpig Flies In To Photobox For £120 Million
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Bebo Owner Leads Takeover Of UK TV Site SeeSaw, Arqiva Keeps 25 Percent
By Robert Andrews  
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Russian Game Reviews Site Kanobu Sells To Portal Publishers
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RBI Buying Aero Data Supplier Ascend To Go With Flightglobal
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Update: MySpace Sale Rolling To Conclusion; Cutting Staff By More Than Half
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Executive Views

FreeWheel’s Acquisition of StickyADS Marks Move to Global Programmatic TV Offering

LONDON —  The recent acquisition of   SSP StickyADS.tv marks a global expansion of th...

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After SpotX And Clypd, RTL Group Seeks More Investments In 2016
By Robert Andrews  
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4C Insights Acquires Teletrax to Drive Addressable TV Ad Decisioning
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Nexage, Acquired By Millennial, Thinks Big On Mobile
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Comcast Acquisition is Powering FreeWheel’s Global Expansion
By Robert Andrews  
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Shazam Buying Tunezee For Premium Mobile Music Lyrics
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Facebook Acq-Hires Dutch UI Designers Sofa
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Punktilio, Another Social Marketing Specialist, Bought By Digital Agency
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Confirmed: Twitter Buying TweetDeck For ‘Power Users’, ‘Change Inevitable’
By Robert Andrews  
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Tesco’s Clubcard Operator Buying Online Brand Advocacy Firm BzzAgent
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Where Now For Waterstone’s In The E-Book Migration?
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Publicis, WPP Make Further Digital Buys, Google Mobile Partnership
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MoMA’s 41st Annual Party In The Garden
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Warner Music Sale Could Herald New Digital Outlook
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Company strategy

Three-way tie-up promises to re-invent local news

The UK’s local news super roll-up is on. Three publishers on Wednesday announced thei...

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M&A analysis
Buying another classified site, Axel Springer sees digital filling print gap
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Paywall provider Piano buys cookie-beater to build a better meter
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Local news super roll-up: UK publishing rivals may face future together
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Penguin Random House aims to attack digital, emerging ebooks markets
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Centaur Buys A Web Forum For Expats’ HR Managers
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Computer Weekly Magazine Killed After 45 Years, As Website Is Sold
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Collective Buying Video Ad Firm Web TV Enterprise
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WPP Buys Another Digital Agency; This Time, In Vietnam
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Magazine Printer Sold Amid Digital Challenge
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Magazine Printer Sold Amid Digital Challenge
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Leo Burnett Buying Airlock Digital Agency
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Analysts Say News Corp’s BSkyB Deal Is On, But Sky News Could Suffer
By Robert Andrews  
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Publishers Do Promos, Part 2: Axel Springer Buying German Coupon Site
By Robert Andrews  
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Perform’s online sports roll-up continues with Sportal acquisition

After raising money through its stock market floatation, online sports broadcaster Pe...

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Tesco fills the e-books piece of its digital puzzle by buying Mobcast
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More social marketing consolidation as Beyond buys Content & Motion
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Axel Springer buying local portal meinestadt.de to court local classifieds
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Real-time sportsbet startup Picklive cashes in its chips
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French Telcos Form M-Commerce JV Buyster To Rival Le PayPal
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Citigroup Buys And Refinances EMI, Digs In For Future
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Citigroup Buys And Refinances EMI, Digs In For Future
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Content Analyser Idio Buying Social Developer Thrudigital
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Lagardère Seals Deal To Off-Load Global Magazines To Hearst
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SEC Watch: Amazon Paid $660 Million For Lovefilm And Quidsi
By Robert Andrews  
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AOL Buys GoViral Video Network For Up To $96.7 Million
By Robert Andrews  
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News Corp’s BSkyB Buying The Cloud WiFi Network?
By Robert Andrews  
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Amazon Buying Lovefilm To Build European Movie Rentals Business
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Thomson Reuters acquires Apsmart for mobile product development

Thomson Reuters is acquiring London-based mobile development outfit Apsmart. The ...

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Germany’s Springer buys stake in Poland’s top web portal
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Sold for £87 million, but can MoneySavingExpert.com keep savers sweet?
By Robert Andrews  
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Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall
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Can Yell turn online around with self-serve marketing?
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Hi-Media Looking To Sell Its Micropayments Business
By Robert Andrews  
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Publicis Buying Online Pharma Comms Agency Digital District
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LinkedIn Rival Xing Buying Event Organiser Amiando For Up To €10.35 Million
By Robert Andrews  
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Media Corp Puts Gambling.com On Sale To Fund Acquisitions
By Robert Andrews  
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News Publisher Schibsted Aims To Profit By Offering Loans To Readers
By Robert Andrews  
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Chip Firm Imagination Buying HelloSoft To Bolster Mobile Multimedia
By Robert Andrews  
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Springer On A Spree: Publisher’s Growth Strategy Is Digital, Overseas
By Robert Andrews  
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WPP Buying Intelligence Database Marketer I-Behavior
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Microstock’s Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer’ Site

Microstock photo repository Fotolia is expanding within its crowdsourced-creativity s...

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Microstock’s Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer’ Site
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Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp’s TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion
By Robert Andrews  
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Facebook Ads Firm Brighter Option Acquired By Buddy Media
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Yahoo Has No Bearing On Alibaba.com Privatisation, E-commerce Site Says
By Robert Andrews  
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Trinity Mirror Buys Out Fish4, Outsources Dating
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Mobile Game Maker Ngmoco Sells To Japan’s DeNA To Build Social Gaming Net
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Updated: The Contraction Of IPC: A List Of Sell-Offs So Far
By Robert Andrews  
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Indian Ad Net Komli Buying Ethnic Minority Marketer Indoor Media
By Robert Andrews  
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Amazon Buying European Fashion Shopping Club BuyVIP
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Mobile Ad Exchange Mobclix Bought By Ad Firm Velti
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IPC Selling Web User Magazine, Website To Dennis
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IPC Selling Web User Magazine, Website To Dennis
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Shopping Club Privalia Gets Its Big One –
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WPP’s Kantar Buying China’s CIC For Social Media Market Research

The world’s biggest advertising firm is making yet another acquisition at the interse...

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Funding analysis
BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox
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M&A analysis
News Corp’s Shine Buying Web Video Producer ChannelFlip
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FT Buys Its Web App Maker; CEO Ridding’s Memo
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Trinity Mirror Buying Further In To Digital Marketing Services
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UBM Buying Canon Events Business For $287 million
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Life In Dead Trees: UBM Buying A Chinese Paper Analyst Firm
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Life In Dead Trees: UBM Buying A Chinese Paper Analyst Firm
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ComScore Buying Nedstat For $36.7 Million To Enhance Web Analytics
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ComScore Buying Nedstat For $36.7 Million To Enhance Web Analytics
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UBM Buys 3D Careers Fair For Military Leavers
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DST Taking Full Control Of Russian Social Net Odnoklassniki.ru
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DST Taking Full Control Of Russian Social Net Odnoklassniki.ru
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Lemmings, GTA Maker’s Games Firm May Be Sold
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In-Tweet Ad Net Magpie Looking To Sell
By Robert Andrews  
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Growing Euromoney Buying Again; A Retail Database
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Video Ads Landgrab: Adconion, Blinkx Buy Smartclip, PVMG

Two new acquisitions underscore how M&A is fuelling ongoing consolidation in the ...

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Sony Buys Ericsson Out Of JV To Make ‘Four-Screen Strategy’ With Mobile
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Music Service Aspiro Sells A Stake To Norwegian Retailer
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WPP Buying Further In To Chinese Online Ad Measurement
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A&N Merging Its Property Sites With Zoopla To Beat Rightmove
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Pace Acquiring Home Media Delivery Firm 2wire To Buy In To U.S.
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Sky Selling Easynet For £100 Million, Keeping Network
By Robert Andrews  
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Blinkx Founders Make A Mint On The Markets
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WPP Buying In To Chinese Digital Ad Measurement
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Naspers Gives Up Mail.ru For A Slice Of Digital Sky
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Nokia Sells Another Business – MetaCarta, After Just Three Months
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Nokia Sells Its Modem Division For $200 Million
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Ad Targeting Consolidation: AudienceScience Buying Wunderloop
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Ad Targeting Consolidation: AudienceScience Buying Wunderloop
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LiveJournal Owner Sup Wants To Sell A Stake; Yahoo In The Frame?

Is Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) about to buy itself a slice of the fast-growing Russian online ...

By Robert Andrews  
IPO analysis
In Chinese Video War, Sina Buys, Tencent Builds
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Yandex Buying Twitter ‘Newspaper’ Maker The Tweeted Times
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Russian Portal Rambler Wants To Buy A Tech News Site
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Funding analysis
Corbis Takes A Piece Of User-News Service Demotix
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Media Research Consolidation: iSuppli Agrees To Buy Screen Digest
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Financial Data Visualizer WSOD Acquired By Markit
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