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Informa takes Datamonitor over

Nicolas — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:36:00 +0200

The market research industry is quickly changing ( and consolidating) this last weeks !

Two weeks after aggregators, (We made a post recently regarding the acquisition of Profound - TBI by Marketresearch), two publishers are making the headlines today.

Informa takes Datamonitor over, for the humble sum of $ 1 billion ! Whouou!!! Well, we can consider that Datamonitor business model is stable, that a important part of their revenues are based on subscription (if anyone can give us more information about that, we would really appreciate !!)

Synergy must be really significant between these two organisations to reach such a price. Here are two of them that seems obvious to me : - Both of them are targeting Fortunes 500 companies - They are not covering the same industries

If you are publishing or distributing industry reports, keep a eye on our blog ! We will keep you informed about next operations. And do you know what ? I bet this will involve web 3.0 information specialists, such as Reportlinker….

Reuters To Takeover ClearForest : Unstructured Content Technologies Are Hot !

Ben — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:19:00 +0200

Reuters acquisition of ClearForest highlights value for unstructured content technologies. The post published by Shore Communications gives more details regarding this deal.

Reuters' acquisition of ClearForest follows another very recent deal we already talked about in this blog : Salesforce takeover of Koral. It shows the interest of big industry players such as Reuters for unstructured content technologies and emphizes the new era of Web 3.0 is really on its way.

ClearForest is one of the pioneers of mining content from Web sites, weblogs ... and other sources for businesses seeking to make sense of the flow of content that doesn't reside in neatly structured databases. ClearForest's mining and semantic analysis techniques allow unstructured content to tell tales that can lead to faster evaluation of financial opportunities, customer support issues and other mission-critical functions.

Want to know more about the future of the information industry shapers ??

Nicolas — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:56:00 +0200

Steve Goldstein, CEO of Alacra and author of Alacrablog write a short article last Friday titled "Revere M&A Scenario Reports". The publication date is quite funny, when you know that's the day when Marketresearch.com announced TBO takeover ! But that's on another level that the M&A scenario are here presented.

Steve listed here three megadeals that are still rumor, but can strongly affect the information industry competitive landscape on the short term :

Thomson buying Reuters
News Corp buying Dow Jones
Microsoft buying Yahoo!

The reports present which consequences merger or acquisition between two firms would have on product and services by listing and comparing each of them. One can just regret that no analyse are given on the competitors answers. The good news is that , thanks to Revere Data, these reports can be download for free on Steve's blog.

Marketresearch.com acquires Profound

Nicolas — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:39:00 +0200

Thomson announced it clearly few months ago : they were looking for someone to take Profound and Newsedge over. The deal, undisclosed yet, was signed last Friday. Officialy, The acquisition expands MarketResearch.com's international reach with additional content and sales presence in Europe and North America. Profound provides a closed-platform, market research service that complements MarketResearch.com's open-format, web-based service.

When we know how hardly is working Profound search engine, we can doubt of the sincerity of this last info ! Nevertheless, this proove that the information industry it still structuring itself by acquisition. And playing this game, Marketresearch is now (really) becoming one player to look at.

Dow Jones takes eFinancialNews over

Nicolas — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:35:00 +0200

Dow Jones just bought eFinancialNews for $52 M. eFinancialNews, subscription-based Web site, has been valued more that 15 times its 2006 earnings ($3,8 M), and twice its 2006 revenues ($25,2 M).

More info about the deal ?? click here