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09/01/2009
[2]
DivX Inc.
buy
AnySource Media LLC
DivX buys AnySource Media in up to $15M deal
...DivX buys AnySource Media in up to $15M deal
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING
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TV technology company AnySource Media sold to DivX
...
Philadelphia Business Journal - by Peter Key Staff Writer
AnySource Media LLC
has been bought by
DivX Inc
. for $7.5 million in cash at closing and up to $7.5 million in cash over the next three years, depending on whether it achieves technical, revenue and distribution milestones.
DivX (NASDAQ:DIVX), a San Diego company that distributes and licenses digital-video technologies for televisions, computers and mobile devices, announced the acquisition Wednesday.
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04/21/2009
[2]
Guardian Media Group
buy
ContentNext Media
PaidContent Blog Impresario Divorcing Long-Suffering Wife [Breakups]
...
And getting divorced.
After the
Guardian Media Group
announced it had bought Ali's company,
ContentNext Media
, for a reported $30 million last stummer, Ali became a hero to the ranks of bloggers hoping to turn their blathering into bucks.
In announcing the sale, he thanked his wife, Najmia Manjoo-Ali, "who hardly ever saw me for the last four years."
...
PaidContent Blog Impresario Divorcing Long-Suffering Wife
...
And getting divorced.
After the
Guardian Media Group
announced it had bought Ali's company,
ContentNext Media
, for a reported $30 million last stummer, Ali became a hero to the ranks of bloggers hoping to turn their blathering into bucks.
In announcing the sale, he thanked his wife, Najmia Manjoo-Ali, "who hardly ever saw me for the last four years."
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03/12/2009
[1]
Adknowledge Inc.
buy
media /
division /
MIVA Inc.
Adknowledge buys
media
division of MIVA for $11.6M
...
Adknowledge buys
media
division of MIVA for $11.6M
Adknowledge Inc
. has bought the
media
division of
MIVA Inc
. in an all-cash, $11.6 million deal.
MIVA
Media
is one of the largest independent online advertising networks, Kansas City-based Adknowledge said in a release Thursday.
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05/11/2009
[1]
Cox Enterprises Inc /
Cox Media Group
buy
share /
Cox Radio
Cox Enterprises will not raise offer for
Cox Radio
...
"Cox Enterprises will not increase its offer."
Cox Enterprises, through its
Cox Media Group
, initially launched a tender offer in March to buy the remaining shares of
Cox Radio
for $3.80 a share, for a total payment of $69.1 million.
It then sweetened its offer by a dollar and extended the deadline to May 13.
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07/30/2009
[1]
Cyberplex Inc
buy
Burst Media Corp /
share
UPDATE 2-Cyberplex says Burst Media's board rejects buyout offer
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Canada's
Cyberplex Inc
, a provider of web advertising solutions, said its offer to buy
Burst Media Corp
for $16.5 million was rejected by the U.S.-based online advertising firm's board.
Cyberplex said it had offered to buy Burst Media shares for 12 pence per share, representing an 81.1 percent premium to Wednesday's closing price of 6.625 pence.
"Our proposal had the support of approximately 40 percent of Burst's shares, or approximately 56 percent when excluding shares held by management of Burst, yet we were unable to engage with the Board of Directors to further a potential transaction or to take the proposal to Burst's entire shareholder base," Cyberplex chairman Vernon Lobo said.
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09/09/2008
[1]
owner /
Dogan Media Group / Dogan
buy
Hilton Hotel
A quick primer on
Dogan
vs Erdogan - Turkish Daily News Sep 09, 2008
...
What is the Hilton controversy?
The owner of the
Dogan Media Group
, Aydin
Dogan
, bought the
Hilton Hotel
in Istanbul's Sisli neighbourhood for $255 million after it was privatized in 2005.
Dogan
allegedly wanted to build residences on the plot and increase the value of the property to $3 billion.
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04/08/2008
[1]
Honeywell International Inc.
buy
Norcross Safety Products LLC
Deals: A Week Outdone by a Day? - Deals - CFO.com
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Englewood, Colo.-based Liberty Media, a holding com, and communications businesses, acquired the additional stake in El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV Group, which provides entertainment content and general digital TV broadcasting via satellite and cable networks.
Honeywell International Inc
. to buy
Norcross Safety Products LLC
from Odyssey Investment Partners LLC for $1.44 billion
Morristown, N.J.-based technology and manufacturing company agreed to acquire Oak Brook, Ill.-based Norcross Safety Products, which makes protective and safety equipment manufacturer, for a price that is $1.2 billion excluding debt..
...
10/30/2008
[1]
Microsoft
buy
Firefly Network
Can The Echo Nest Stay Aloft in the Turbulent Music-Recommendation Industry?
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"Amazon and almost every large online store uses sales and clickstream data to do things like saying, 'Okay, Jen bought these four records, and you bought three of them, and you don't know Jen, but you should probably buy that fourth one as well,'" Whitman says.
That's collaborative filtering-and it was largely invented by Media Lab professor Pattie Maes (an Xconomist) and her students in the mid-1990s (her recommendation company
Firefly Network
was bought by
Microsoft
in 1998 for $40 million).
But while collaborative filtering "sounds like a great idea," says Whitman, "when you apply it to music, stuff just gets lost.
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11/05/2009
[1]
News Corp.
buy
Intermix Media Inc /
website
Rupert Murdoch
...
Some analysts believed that News Corp's Australian domicile was leading to the company being undervalued compared with its peers.
On July 20, 2005,
News Corp
. bought
Intermix Media Inc
. , which held MySpace.com and other popular social networking-themed websites for $580 million USD.
On September 11, 2005,
News Corp
. announced that it would buy IGN Entertainment for $650 million (USD).
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10/17/2009
[1]
News Corp.
buy
website /
Intermix Media Inc.
Intermix Media
...
Rosenblatt negotiated the sale of Myspace for $580m to Rupert Murdoch's
News Corp
. and consulted for Fox for six months before founding Demand Media.
On July 20, 2005,
News Corp
. bought
Intermix Media Inc
., which held MySpace.com and other popular social networking-themed websites for $580 million USD.
In May 2006, Rosenblatt founded Demand Media.
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06/20/2007
[1]
News Corp.
buy
MySpace
Report:
News Corp
. offers
MySpace
for Yahoo stake
...
With Yahoo's market capitalization at US$37.7 billion mid-morning Wednesday, the deal would put
MySpace
's value at between $9.4 billion and $11.3 billion.
News Corp
. bought
MySpace
along with other Internet properties for $580 million when it acquired Intermix Media Inc. in July 2005.
The U.K. Times, which is owned by
News Corp
., reported that its parent company is interested in the Yahoo stake as a way to gain "exposure to a far larger Internet-based business."
...
09/27/2008
[1]
Sinopec
buy
Tanganyika Oil Co. /
billion
Finance, Business and Company News - Yahoo!7
...
Saturday September 27, 2008, 10:39 pm
BEIJING (AFP) - Asia's top oil refiner
Sinopec
has signed a deal to buy Canada's
Tanganyika Oil Co
. for 2.07 billion Canadian dollars (2 billion US), Chinese state media said Saturday.
China's
Sinopec
has agreed to pay 31.50 Canadian dollars per share, an 8.8 percent premium on the company's closing share price on Friday, Xinhua news agency said.
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08/05/2008
[1]
Sony
buy
Bertelsmann
Sony
buys
Bertelsmann
out of
Sony
BMG - home to Mark Ronson and Bruce Springsteen Business guardian.co.uk
...
Photograph: EPA/Alfredo Aldai
Japanese electronics giant
Sony
is buying its partner
Bertelsmann
out of their
Sony
BMG music joint venture, home to artists including Mark Ronson and Bruce Springsteen, in a deal worth $1.2bn (GBP614m) to the German media group.
The move, which has been rumoured for some months, could provide
Bertelsmann
with the financial firepower to buy all or part of BSkyB's controversial 17.9% stake in ITV.
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09/14/2007
[1]
Standard Chartered Plc.
buy
Hsinchu International Bank
Citigroup to buy Taiwan's Bank of Overseas Chinese - Apr. 9, 2007
...
Multinational lenders see Taiwan as a springboard to China's fast-growing market, which is also home to a large Taiwanese business community.
Last year,
Standard Chartered Plc
. bought
Hsinchu International Bank
for US$1.2 billion.
Others said to be interested in the market include HSBC (Charts) and Singapore's Temasek, according to media reports.
...
11/02/2009
[1]
Virgin Media Television
buy
option /
NetPlay TV Plc / 18 pence
Virgin Media Television
...
Also an analogue teletext service known as GoldText used to be available on UK Gold, but has since closed down.
On 7 April 2009, it was announced that
Virgin Media Television
had agreed to buy options to acquire 9.9 percent of
NetPlay TV Plc
's shares at a strike price of
18 pence
per share.
NetPlay acquired the business assets of Two Way Gaming Ltd, the provider of the Challenge Jackpot gaming services, for GBP2 million pounds in stock.
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11/15/2009
[1]
World Sports Group
buy
media /
right /
Indian Premier League
Sachin Tendulkar: a nation unites to rejoice in 20 years of genius
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Such moments have made Tendulkar a personal talisman for many of his countrymen.
His career has coincided with an economic renaissance that has given many Indians a new confidence, said Venu Nair, the South Asia president of
World Sports Group
, which last year bought the
media
rights for the
Indian Premier League
for more than $1.5 billion (now about GBP90 million).
"One crucial thing was that from an early age, the wonderkid Sachin was not good only at home," Nair said.
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09/27/2009
[2]
Armada Media Corporation
purchase
Pheasant Country Broadcasting, Inc Big Stone Broadcasting, Inc.
KBWS-FM
...
KBWS-FM was retained by Pheasant Country Broadcasting with an agreement to be operated by Ingstad owned Big Stone Broadcasting.
August 2007,
Armada Media Corporation
agreed to purchase the assets of radio stations KMSD-AM, KBWS-FM, KDIO-AM and KPHR-FM from Big Stone Broadcasting, Inc., and Pheasant Country Broadcasting, Inc for $2.9 million.
KBWS-FM airs a country format.
...
KMSD
...
October 6th 1999 Pheasant Country Broadcasting agreed to transfer its assets of KDIO-AM & KMSD-AM to Big Stone Broadcasting.
August 2007,
Armada Media Corporation
agreed to purchase the assets of radio stations KMSD-AM, KBWS-FM, KDIO-AM and KPHR-FM from Big Stone Broadcasting, Inc., and Pheasant Country Broadcasting, Inc for $2.9 million.
KMSD-AM's current programming consists of live local programing from 6am-1pm and ABC Radio's Classic Hits satellite programming from 1pm-6am.
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09/07/2009
[1]
Forum Corporation
purchase
Forum Corporation
Forum Corporation
...
That same year it announced an alliance to provide worldwide training with the business communications company, the Moore Corporation.
On June 30, 2000, Forum accepted an offer by Pearson , a London-based media conglomerate, to purchase Forum for US$90 million (GBP 60 million) in cash.
Pearson intended to merge Forum with FT Knowledge to generate sales of US$110 million in its first year.
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06/25/2008
[1]
Management of Equity Media
purchase
8,050,000 shares /
of Management of Equity Media / of
Equity Media Receives Up to $37.5 Million in Asset Sales Transaction With Group Led by Largest Shareholder Henry Luken III
...
Warrant Purchase
Equity Media sold warrants to the Investors to purchase 8,050,000 shares
of
Equity Media's common stock at an exercise price
of
$1.10 per share, exercisable through September 7, 2009 (the "Luken Warrants").
The purchase price for the warrants was $1.5 million.
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03/14/2008
[1]
News Corporation
purchase
MySpace
AOL Buying No. 3 Social Networking Site - New York Times
...
Social networking sites enabling online connections between friends, family and colleagues are seen as a growing source of revenue for media companies, although making money has not been easy.
The
News Corporation
purchased
MySpace
in 2005 for $580 million.
Microsoft paid $240 million for 1.6 percent of Facebook in October.
...
10/07/2009
[1]
Red Bee Media Limited
purchase
company /
Australian Caption Centre
Red Bee Media
...
Through its BDS subsidiary, Red Bee also provides programme listings services .
The company purchased the
Australian Caption Centre
, an Australian subtitling company, for AUD 7.5 million (GBP 3.2 million) in 2006.
This was relaunched as subsidiary Red Bee Media Australia in March 2007.
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08/05/2008
[1]
Sony Corp
buy out
Bertelsmann /
share
FACTBOX: How Sony BMG ranks among music companies
...
FACTBOX: How Sony BMG ranks among music companies
Sony Corp
agreed to buy out
Bertelsmann
's share in Sony BMG in a deal worth about $1.2 billion, four years after the Japanese electronics conglomerate and the German media group founded the joint venture.
Following are statistics on how Sony BMG compares with its main rivals:
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