HotOrNot Gets Cold Cash, Acquired by Canadian Media Company
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Popular photo-rating site HotOrNot.com is bought by a group of investors associated with Avid Life Media, founder James Hong confirms.
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Telephone number and area code  clearing firm NeuStar, Inc.  said on Monday it acquired  Followap, Inc., a UK-based provider of mobile instant messaging  products, for $139 million in cash.
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ExcelStor, owned by the Chinese government, is being acquired in a stock deal.
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Canada's T.D. Bank Financial Group is buying a controlling stake in Maine-based Banknorth for $3.8 billion.
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"We will invest, we'll put new blood into the company ... with acquisitions worldwide"  Endemol's new owners will invest and look at acquisitions worldwide, John De Mol, who founded the television content company and is now buying it with Italy's Mediaset , told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper. via Reuters UK
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The company that owns the Wall Street Journal has agreed to pay $519 million to buy the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch. The weekend deal, which came after an auction that included bidders like Viacom
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he media unit of Quebecor Inc. agreed yesterday to buy the Toronto 1 television station from Chum Ltd. for 46 million Canadian dollars ($35.4 million) in cash and assets, clearing the way for Chum to complete its 265 million Canadian ...
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Cable and Wireless, the British telecoms group, said it had agreed to sell its Japanese unit to Internet service provider Softbank Corp for about 133 million dollars (104 million euros) including debt.
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CanWest Global Communications Corp.,  Canada's biggest media company, has bought complete ownership  of The New Republic, the 93-year-old U.S. political magazine,  it said on Tuesday.
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The conglomerate's pending breakup could unlock new-media value.
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Thomson Corp. (TOC.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it will sell its media division to investment group Investcorp in a $350 million cash deal that will tighten its focus on electronic publishing.
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Jupitermedia forges ahead with the purchase of MediaBistro.com.
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Canada's largest cable company, Rogers Communications Inc., said Monday it will pay &#36;1.33 billion for the 34 percent stake in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. owned by longtime American partner AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc.
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In another consolidation in the hot-again business of Internet advertising, Web video specialist Viewpoint has agreed to buy Unicast Communications.
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(InfoWorld) - Mediasurface, a maker of content management software (CMS), will buy Immediacy, also a content management vendor, for Â£5.6 million ($11.1 million) the companies announced on Tuesday. Mediasurface said the acquisition will give it a content management software offering for midsize businesses, rounding out its portfolio of CMS systems. Immediacy's CMS is geared for nontechnical users, according to Mediasurface's Web site. It can be used to administer Web sites or content within intranets and extranets. Mediasurface's main product is Morello, which is Web content management software that uses an interface that looks similar to Windows. It also makes Pepperio, a software package for small businesses to build Web sites. Mediasurface said it will issue shares to raise money for the acquisition as well as use cash. Â
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Government-controlled minmetals. Exclusive talks to buy Canadian mining giant that has a market value of $6.7 billion. Noranda CEO Derek Pannell said he is encouraged by discussions with Minmetals, although
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News Corp., the broadcaster owned by Rupert Murdoch, bought partner Telecom Italia SpA&#39;s stake in an Italian satellite television venture for 88 million euros ($108 million), giving News Corp.