Addison acquires majority stake in digital corporate communications agency, The Group, in the UK

August 19, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

WPP‘s wholly-owned company Addison Corporate Marketing Limited, a corporate communications agency, has acquired a majority stake in Emaxol Limited, the holding company of IR Group Limited, an online corporate communications agency. The combined business will trade as Addison Group. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Founded in London in 1991 by Mark Hill, The Group employs 65 people and specialises in designing, building, hosting and developing corporate websites and digital consulting services. Clients include Tesco, BG Group, Centrica, Kingfisher, InterContinental Hotels Group, Tullow Oil, Cairn Energy, Petrofac and Rexam.

The Group’s consolidated unaudited revenues for the year ended 31 July 2013 were £5.9 million, with gross assets of £5.1 million as at the same date.

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GoDaddy acquires Locu

August 18, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

GoDaddy is to acquire Locu, a San Francisco-based company that helps local merchants “get found” online. Started in 2011 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Locu is used by more than 30,000 businesses, including restaurants, spas, salons, accountants, photographers and home remodeling companies, to promote their services across Locu’s partner network. Locu reaches more than 200 million consumers per month through its partnerships with Yelp, YP.com, Foursquare, TripAdvisor and Facebook. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Locu epitomizes what GoDaddy is all about – both companies are hell-bent on helping the ‘little guy’ thrive on the Internet,” said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. “Locu is comprised of amazing technologists who have taken the very complex problem of helping small businesses ‘get found’ wherever consumers are looking and are solving it through elegant, technology-based services. We are welcoming some of the brightest technology minds on the planet to our GoDaddy family.”

The two companies have been working closely together since May when GoDaddy integrated Locu into its easy-to-use Website Builder.

Locu will continue to operate out of its San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., offices and is actively hiring for both locations. All of Locu’s employees are joining the GoDaddy team.

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Future acquires APC and TechLife – from Bauer Media Group in Australia

August 16, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

futureplcFuture plc‘s Australian business has acquired two technology brands – APC and TechLife – from Bauer Media Group.

The acquisition involves the two brands, the subscription lists and all related magazines, digital editions and websites in Australia. The brands will join Future’s existing Australian Technology portfolio, including TechRadar.com.au and T3.com.

Mark Wood, Future’s Chief Executive, said:

“The acquisition of APC and TechLife is the next stage in Future’s strategy of building a global technology content business around TechRadar, our top digital brand, and T3.com. “We are delighted to bring these two high-quality technology titles into Future, adding to our strong positions in the UK and US markets, and we look forward to building on their success and their impressive audience reach to become Australia’s leading technology publisher.”

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JWT to acquire majority stake in Post Visual in South Korea

August 16, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

wppWPP‘s wholly owned operating company, JWT, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Post Visual, a highly awarded digital agency in South Korea. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Headquartered in Seoul, Post Visual is considered also to be a top creative agency in South Korea, with major clients including Nike, Google, and eBay. Post Visual was the first agency in South Korea to win a Gold Cyber Lion at Cannes and has won Gold awards at other global festivals.

As at year ending December 2012, Post Visual had unaudited revenues of KRW 4.8 billion and gross assets of KRW 3.4 billion as at the same date. Founded in 2000, Post Visual employs more than 60 people.

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Dods acquires public sector publishing titles from Sift Media

August 16, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

Dods (Group) Plc, the UK provider of political and government information and communication services, has acquired public sector publishing titles from Sift Media. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The agreement is for Sift Media’s PublicTechnology.net, PublicTenders.net and BusinessCloud9.com titles and its associated events, UK Public Sector Digital Awards and Business Cloud Summit.

Keith Sadler, CEO of Dods (Group) Plc, said, “We at Dods are delighted by the acquisition of PublicTechnology.net, PublicTenders.net and BusinessCloud9.com from Sift Media Limited. We will add these sites into its existing portfolio of websites and make further investment to improve the user and client experience on these sites.”

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WPP Digital acquires minority stake in Mutual Mobile in the United States

August 15, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

wppWPP Digital, the digital investment arm of WPP, has acquired a minority interest in Mutual Mobile, Inc., a mobile product development agency. Mutual Mobile builds technology products for its clients that allow for better communication and transacting across any mobile devices and all operating systems, wherever the consumer may be.

Mutual Mobile’s unaudited revenue as of 31 December 2012 was US $25.7 million with total net assets of approximately US $4 million. Clients include Google, Pearson, Cisco and Xerox. Based in Austin, the company employs 320 people.

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Metropolis International acquires a majority shareholding in Websky Limited

August 13, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

Expert-AgentMetropolis International has acquired a majority shareholding in Websky Limited. the terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Websky, founded in 2003, is based in Frome, Somerset with 30 staff. The company provides its cloud based Expert Agent software solution to over 1600 Estate Agents and Lettings Agents throughout the United Kingdom. Over 15% of all properties sold and rented in the UK in 2012 were processed through Expert Agent.

Michael Griffiths, who stays on as MD of Websky, said: “This deal gives us chance to expand the product and provide an even better service to existing customers but particularly to the many estate agents that don’t yet benefit from our technology.”

Robert Marr, CEO of Metropolis said: “Expert Agent offers its users a market leading, low-cost and effective solution to manage their workload. I am delighted to invest in such a well-managed company looking to move on to the next stage of its development with Metropolis.”

UK, London & Somerset, Frome

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LDC acquires a significant stake in price comparison service USWITCH.COM

August 10, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

ldc_logoLDC has backed the MBO of uSwitch.com, one of the most recognised brands and established businesses in the UK price comparison market.

LDC has acquired a significant stake in the business with the vendors Forward Internet Group retaining a substantial minority holding. Both investors will align with the existing management team who will also have a minority holding in the business. LDC’s focus will be on supporting the company’s strong management team to deliver on its clear vision and compelling growth strategy.

Founded in 2000, uSwitch.com is a UK-based free, impartial price comparison and switching service. It allows consumers to compare prices for a range of energy, communications and financial services.
Since its acquisition by FIG in 2009, uSwitch.com has significantly accelerated its growth. uSwitch employs 135 permanent staff and last year was ranked the top website by Hitwise, the leading global online competitive intelligence service, in the ‘Business and Finance – Utilities’ category, having been runner up for the previous three years.
The company has grown both organically and through acquisition, with its recent purchase of Top10.com, a popular broadband and mobile phone comparison business.

FIG is a privately held investment company that creates, acquires and invests in web and consumer businesses and has a portfolio of over 25 companies.

Daniel Sasaki, Managing Director of LDC London commented, “Our role is to back British growth companies and we are delighted to help foster the expansion and enhance the performance of uSwitch.com, which has established itself as one of the most well-regarded businesses and strongest brands in the price comparison market. It plays a key role as a consumer champion, giving people the tools to secure the best deals on all their essential utility, internet and financial services products and also contributes to making these areas of the UK economy more efficient, which will help to drive the country’s economic recovery.”

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Elsevier acquires Woodhead Publishing

August 10, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

elsevierElsevier, a provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has acquired Woodhead Publishing Limited, a UK-based publishing company publishing in the areas of food science, technology and nutrition; materials and engineering; textile technology; energy and environmental technology; finance, commodities and investment; and mathematics. The acquisition of Woodhead Publishing also includes Chandos Publishing, a library and information science publisher based in Witney, near Oxford.

“We are committed to improving research outcomes and researcher productivity,” said Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director, Science & Technology Books, Elsevier. “The acquisition of Woodhead Publishing helps us to achieve this objective. Woodhead’s global publishing program is complementary to Elsevier’s books portfolio and Martin Woodhead and his staff are as committed to content quality as we are.”

The Netherlands, Amsterdam & USA, Waltham, MA & UK, Cambridge

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Elsevier acquires certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company

August 8, 2013 — Fusion DigiNet

elsevierElsevier has acquired certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company. The portfolio of 32 books includes petroleum engineering titles in drilling, pipeline, oil and gas, and safety.

The GPC titles are for professionals in upstream oil and gas engineering and cover drilling, recovery methods, reservoir management, processing, and pipeline transmission. They include the Gulf Drilling Series, which emphasizes current techniques and technologies in the drilling industry; handbooks in oil and natural gas engineering; books on enhanced and non-conventional recovery techniques, including the high interest area of hydraulic fracturing (fracking); and data handbooks useful as reference sources for researchers and applied engineers working with the physical and chemical properties of hydrocarbons.

“The acquisition of the Gulf titles expands Elsevier’s petroleum engineering offering, positioning Elsevier as the leading book publisher for the oil and gas industry,” said Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director, Science & Technology Books, Elsevier. “The titles are of high-quality and complement our existing energy and fuel list, which is a benefit for corporate and academic customers using our ScienceDirect platform.”

All of the GPC books will be available through the Elsevier Store and on ScienceDirect, a full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. Many of the titles are also available on Knovel, a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to deliver answers engineers can trust.

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