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This page highlights acquisition of web sites and internet
services by 'mainstream media' organisations.
It covers -
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detailed information about each of the major media groups
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1991
Tribune takes 10% stake in AOL for US$5m
1995
TMP Worldwide acquires Monster Board (Monster.com)
1997
BCE buys buys 10% of Sun Media and 40% of CANOE
1998
Disney buys 43% stake in Infoseek web portal
Vivendi sells 6.5% stake in Telewest for £200m
1999
Hearst-Argyle buys 30% of Internet Broadcasting and takes
stake in Geocast Network Systems
Carlton takes 20% stake in PeopleBank online job agency and
25% stake in Ask Jeeves UK
NY Times invests US$15 million in TheStreet.com
Scripps consortium acquires AdOne online classified network
CBS SportsLine pays US$46m for Commissioner.com
2000
AOL merges with Time Warner
Liberty and Vulcan Ventures take US$190m stake in priceline.com
Knight Ridder, Gannett and Tribune buy CareerBuilder
INL sells Terabyte Interactive
2001
Primedia and About, Inc announce US$374m merger
Trinity Mirror sells ic24 ISP
Vivendi buys MP3.com for US$372m
Tribune, CareerBuilder and Knight Ridder buy Headhunter.net
2002
Vivendi sells its 50% share of Vizzavi for €142m
2003
Vivendi sells MP3.com to CNET
2004
DMGT pays £13.8m for Find a Property, UK's largest independent
property website
Seven sells AOL|7 stake to Primus
LexisNexis acquires Seisint for US$775m in 2004
Tribune, Gannett and Knight Ridder acquire CrossMedia Services
and launch ShopLocal.com
2005
NY Times buys Buys BlogRunner, Indeed.com and FM Publishing
EMAP pays £140m for online fashion portal Worth Global
Style (WGSN)
NY Times buys About.com from Primedia for US$410m
EW Scripps pays US$560m for Shopzilla
EMAP pays £140m for online fashion portal Worth Global
Style
Dow Jones buys MarketWatch.com for US$519m
John Fairfax pays $38.92m for dating site RSVP.com.au
News Corp pays US$580m for Intermix Media
News pays US$25.3m for propertyfinder.com
Telegraaf Media Groep acquires 70% of Relatieplanet and Iwannadate
Viacom buys Neopets for US$160m
DMGT buys Zambeasy jobs site for £4.1m
Trinity Mirror buys recruitment service Hotgroup for US$87m
News Corp pays US$650m for IGN Entertainment Inc
News Corp pays US$580m for Myspace.com
Yahoo buys Del.icio.us
BSkyB pays £211m for UK broadband ISP Easynet
ITV buys Friends Reunited for £120m
DMGT buys Fastcrop (property site Primelocation.com) for £48m
2006
UBM buys lightreading.com and techonline.com
VNU buys UK's The Inquirer and France's Silicon.fr
Hearst buys NetDoctor, top UK consumer health site
NBC Universal pays US$600m for iVillage
Lycos US sells Quote.com to IDC for US$30m
VNU buys Tweakers.net, Holland's largest tech news site
John Fairfax buys Trade Me for $625m
Alma Media buys 80% of Autoinfo (Estonia)
Fairfax pays reported $5m for commercialrealestate.com.au
EW Scripps agrees to pay US$366m for UK price comparison service
uSwitch
Independent News & Media buys 20% of UK online gaming
company Cashcade
News pays US$3.5m for stake in Simply Hired
Reed Elsevier pays est US$40m for medical site Gold Standard
Viacom buys online gaming community site Xfire for US$102m
News acquires kSolo and Newroo
DMGT buys Allegran (inc dating portals GirlsDateForFree, DatesForParents.com
and LoopyLove.com) for £46.5m
Alma buys 70% of property portal @apartament.pl
DMGT buys 62.5% of Data Media & Retail (Carsource.co.uk)
Trinity Mirror pays £4.4m for Email4Property
Viacom buys Xfire for US$102m
Tribune acquires ForSaleByOwner.com
Viacom buys Y2M: Youth Media & Marketing Networks (publisher
of 450 online college newspapers)
Readers Digest pays US$66m for AllRecipes.com
Alma buys online property marketplaces Bovision and Objektvision
for €1.7m
Sony Pictures Entertainment acquires Grouper for US$65m
News Corp pays US$188m for 51% of Jamba ('Crazy Frog' ring-tones)
Telstra pays $338m for 51% of SouFun real estate site
BSkyB buy online sports information and gaming firm 365 Media
Group for £96m
2007
Fairfax buys Australian women, family and parenting site Essential
Baby
Emap pays £8.7m for user-generated content specialist
YoSpace
Pearson agrees to buy eCollege.com (est 1996) for US$538m
CBS pays US$280m for music and social networking site Last.fm
Hearst buys eCrush
New York Times buys ConsumerSearch.com for US$33m
News buys photo-sharing site Photobucket and image-editing
tool Flektor for US$250m
Hearst pays US$100m for UGO.com network
Disney pay US$350m for virtual community Club Penguin
Hearst pays US$40m for Kaboodle
Scripps buys cookery site Recipezaar for US$25m
Blockbuster buys MovieLink
PBL and Macquarie Bank pay €357m for 66% of Immobilien
Scout real estate site
Discovery Communications buys HowStuffWorks for US$250m
Agence France Presse taks 30% stake in Scooplive (aka Citizenside)
'citizen journalism platform
Naspers agrees to buy UK online auctioner Tradus (formerly
QXL Ricardo) for US$1.9bn
News Corp buys BeliefNet
2008
CBS
announces US$1.8bn deal to buy CNet
Networks
Comcast agrees to buy Plaxo
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