Mergers & Acquisitions

ACK Media Acquires Stake Katha Studios; Sharing Equity For Scale? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 24 Apr 2008 01:08 AM PST

ACK Media, which has the rights to Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle Magazine, has now acquired a controlling stake of more than 51 percent in Chennai based Karadi Tales, report…

NetXcell To Raise Rs 12 Crore Through Private Equity - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 23 Apr 2008 12:30 AM PST

NetXcell, a telecom application service provider, is in the process of raising $3 million (approx Rs 12 crore) through a private equity to fund sales operations in India and the…

Ubisoft Acquires Gameloft’s Dev Center In Pune - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Apr 2008 06:34 AM PST

Ubisoft, one of the worlds largest game developers has inked a deal to acquire Gameloft’s (EPA: GFT) development center in Pune. The dev centre has 120 developers and testers who…

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CyberMedia Buys UBMs Stake In Publishing JV - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 10 Apr 2008 03:59 AM PST

CyberMedia India appears to be in consolidation mode: the company has acquired the entire equity in UBM-CyberMedia LLC for an undisclosed sum, buying out the stake of their partner United…

Id8Labs To Acquire Chennai Based Company; Looking To Raise $6-8 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Apr 2008 11:30 PM PST

Id8Labs, the digital marketing agency, is on the verge of acquiring a Chennai based initiative, founder Amit Tripathi told contentSutra. The acquisition - of a company with IPR being run…

Updated: IMIsoft (NOT IMI Mobile) Acquired By Ramboll Group From Denmark - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:18 AM PST

Update: Just got off the phone with M Sandeep, CEO of IMIsoft, who told me that IMI Mobile has NOT been acquired by the Ramboll Group. The Ramboll Group has…

Reed Business Information To be Sold Off; “Reducing Exposure To Cyclicality” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Feb 2008 01:49 AM PST

Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK), the Anglo-Dutch B2B media giant, which just announced a $4.1 billion acquisition and its 2007 results, also dropped another big one: it is going to sell…

MSFT-YHOO: Links To Coverage Across Our Sites - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 01 Feb 2008 11:30 AM PST

Some of our breaking-news coverage from sister sites paidContent.org, mocoNews.net and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Google: MSFT Bid Raises ‘Troubling Questions’; Openness Mantra Again; MSFT Responds: We’d Be No 2 --…

Pyramid Saimira Acquires Game Development Co Aurona Techonogies - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 24 Jan 2008 03:57 AM PST

Pyramid Saimira has acquired a majority stake in Aurona Technologies, a game development and interactive entertainment software company headquartered in London. They develop content for the PS2, Nintendo DS and…

Percept Acquires Search Marketing Agency Searchize - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Jan 2008 09:26 PM PST

Percept Holdings, through it’s digital media arm Percept Knorigin, has acquired Searchize, a Mumbai based search engine marketing company, reports Television Point. Searchize was started in 2004, and offered search…

Updated: Motorola To Acquire Asian Digital Music Service Soundbuzz - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Jan 2008 12:26 AM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it will acquire online and mobile music distribution company Soundbuzz. The details of the deal have not been disclosed, but Motorola expects to close…

Updated: UTV Acquires Majority Stake In IT Nation - 15 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Jan 2008 09:20 AM PST

Update: A UTV spokesperson told us that the company has no comment on this story - neither a confirmation nor a denial. Our sources have since confirmed that the deal…

Updated: Sony Denies Zapak Buying SOE - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sat 22 Dec 2007 10:55 PM PST

Updated: So much for this, and as we said below, our sources also denied a deal: Sony (NYSE: SNE) is denying any such sale: “Sony Online Entertainment is not for…

TravelGuru Acquires Desiya For $25 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 21 Dec 2007 12:49 AM PST

$25 Million (around Rs. 100 crores) is the amount that Online Travel Agency (OTA) TravelGuru is paying for B2B hotel portal Desiya.com, reports ET. The acquisition had been reported a…

ComVentures Merges With Velocity Investment Group To Form $1.5B Fund - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 17 Dec 2007 10:28 PM PST

Venture Fund ComVentures, which has investments in NDTV Networks Plc ($20 Million), the UK based subsidiary of BSE listed NDTV, and Rajat Sharma’s India TV ($11.5 million through Fuse+Media), has…

FXLabs Acquires Casual Gaming Aggregator Knibble For $3 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 16 Dec 2007 10:40 PM PST

Well, I was trying to break this story, and the release went live: FXLabs, a Hyderabad based gaming and animation company, has acquired IMT Inc, a US based company that…

UTV Buys Controlling Interest in Indiagames - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 14 Dec 2007 08:49 AM PST

UTV, through its UK subsidiary, has bought a controlling stake in Indiagames. UTV first bought into a majority in Indiagames late last year, for about Rs 68 crore, which it…

9.9 Mediaworx To Acquire Jasubhai Digital: Report - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Dec 2007 09:55 PM PST

9.9 Mediaworx, founded by former ABP CEO Dr. Pramath Sinha, is going to acquire Jasubhai Digital Media, the technology media business of the Jasubhai Group, reports Business Standard. As per…

TV18 Acquires 40 Percent Stake In Infomedia India For Rs. 178 Crores - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 11 Dec 2007 11:29 PM PST

The Network18 acquisition machine rolls on, finally entering the print space with group company TV18 acquiring 40 percent stake in BSE listed Infomedia India for Rs.178 Crores, reports moneycontrol.com. The…

Ybrant To Acquire Israeli Agency Oridian; Raises $20 Million From Sensar Capital, Pre-IPO - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 05 Dec 2007 03:11 AM PST

Ybrant Technologies, a Hyderabad based digital marketing co has announced its intention to acquire Oridian, an Israeli online media solutions provider for around $13 Million. DNA reports that Ybrant is…

IOL Broadband To Be Renamed IOL Netcom; Pref Issue; Acquisition Of Exatt Technologies - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 05 Dec 2007 12:14 AM PST

The board of BSE listed IOL Broadband Ltd has approved a preferential issue of 2 million warrants at a price of Rs. 576 to “specified Investors”. That pegs the value…

Reliance Entertainment Acquires Animation Studio Anirights
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 Nov 2007 05:12 AM PST

I thought this was old news, but apparently not: Reliance Entertainment has acquired Anirights Infomedia, an animation company based in Pune, reports Economic Times (via VC Circle); at TiE-ISB Connect,…

ACK Media Acquires Amar Chitra Katha And Tinkle For Monetization Across Media - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 Nov 2007 09:32 AM PST

ACK Media has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle, Tinkle Digest and Double Digest from India Book House. Founded by Samir Patil and Shripal…

Capital18 Acquires Stake In Webchutney
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 Nov 2007 02:09 AM PST

You’re reading it here first: ContentSutra has learned from sources that Network18 Capital18 has acquired a majority substantial (not majority) stake in interactive marketing agency Webchutney. Known for it’s online…

HT Media Buys Social Networking Site DesiMartini
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 20 Nov 2007 08:30 PM PST

Hindustan Times Media group has bought social networking site Desimartini.com, through its online subsidiary Firefly eVentures. The financial terms were not disclosed, but HT Media said it was for less…