Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) wants to buy the 50 percent stake it doesn’t currently have in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst, the WSJ reports, citing unidentified sources. No word on what price DJ is offering for the magazine, though a deal could be hammered out by...
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Currensee, a social network for foreign exchange traders, has raised $6 million more in funding. On Currensee, users link their brokerage accounts to their profiles, so that they can share trades and foreign exchange positions. They can also track the trades and positions of “trading friends” in real-time. The funding round was...
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Already an investor in TT Games, Snowblind Studios and Midway Games assets, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Home Entertainment is buying further in to the video games market by acquiring a majority of London-based Rocksteady Studios, the developer that made the Batman: Arkham Asylum game starring WB’s superhero.
Group president...
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When you look at the booming popularity of online games - from World Of Warcraft to FarmVille - it’s hard not to say “let’s have a bit of that”.
That’s what CEO David Levin’s B2B publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is saying - it’s buying Game...
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Walmart is about to make a semi-major move into digital home: the company confirmed after the market closed Monday that it is buying online/embedded movie service Vudu. The retailer describes Vudu as a “leading provider of digital technologies and services that enable the delivery of entertainment content directly to broadband high-definition TVs and Blu-ray...
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Four fundings we missed late last week, while sidetracked by the bustle of paidContent 2010:
—Moonshoot: Moonshoot, a startup which teaches kids English via online games, got $6.6 million in a funding round led by Alsop Louie Partners and TL Ventures. The company also said that Tom Kalinske, whose long...
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Bloomberg, which is on a mandate to move into various verticals beyond its core, has now acquired Fairfax, VA-based government data publishers Eagle Eye Publishers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this is Bloomberg’s third acquisition in the last few months, after BusinessWeek (for its consumer push) and...
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After a series of delays, the Reader’s Digest Association has finally emerged from bankruptcy having reduced its debt by 75 percent, the company said. The publisher, which filed for Chapter 11 protection last August, has received $525 million in exit financing from a bond refinancing that will provide RDA with an estimated...
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London-based Bragster, a site for people to make bets with each other on various “stunts”, has been acquired by Guinness World Records, for an undisclosed sum. The site allows users to upload videos of their dares and “bragging” feats. It was founded in 2006, and raised about $3...
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Online lead generator Reply wants to raise $60 million in an IPO, according to an SEC filing. The startup runs an auction-based online marketplace that lets companies buy information about people who have indicated an interest online in buying a certain product; advertisers can target their lead spending based...
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