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People Inc. Acquires Feedfeed

October 1, 2025

Media & Entertainment

People Inc. (the rebranded Dotdash Meredith) has acquired Feedfeed, a 12-year-old food publisher and creator network with more than 7 million social followers and roughly 1,000 influencer partners. Feedfeed will retain its branding, its roughly dozen employees will join People Inc., and it will roll up under People Inc.'s food and drink vertical; financial terms were not disclosed.

News Corp Acquires Investor's Business Daily for $275M

March 25, 2021

Media & Entertainment

News Corp has agreed to acquire Investor's Business Daily (IBD) from O'Neil Capital Management for $275 million. IBD, a digital-first financial news and research business with roughly 100,000 digital subscribers and about 130 employees, will operate as a stand-alone brand within News Corp's Dow Jones division to expand Dow Jones's digital finance offerings and proprietary investor tools.

Endurance International Group Acquires Ecomdash

September 9, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all assets of Ecomdash for approximately $9.6 million in cash. The acquisition will add Ecomdash’s inventory, multichannel listing and order management capabilities to Endurance’s cloud-based SMB web presence and marketing platform; the deal was expected to close by October 1, 2019.

Take-Two Interactive Acquires Playdots

August 18, 2020

Software

Take-Two Interactive has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire mobile games developer Playdots for $192 million, comprised of $90 million in cash and the remainder in newly issued Take-Two common stock. Playdots, a New York City–based studio known for Two Dots and other casual free-to-play titles, will remain led by CEO Nir Efrat and its ~70 employees following the closing, expected in Q3 2020.

McClatchy and accelerate360 Merge to Form McClatchy Media Company

December 13, 2024

Media & Entertainment

McClatchy has completed a merger with accelerate360 to form the McClatchy Media Company (MMC), combining McClatchy's local journalism with a360media's lifestyle content and accelerate360's retail distribution and logistics network. Chatham Asset Management is the majority owner of the new company, which will operate a unified digital publishing and retail distribution platform reaching roughly 100 million unique visitors and access to over 56,000 retail locations.

Ziff Davis Acquires Lifehacker (asset)

April 6, 2023

Media & Entertainment

Ziff Davis, Inc. completed the acquisition of the Lifehacker asset in Q1 2023. The purchase (terms not disclosed) is intended to grow Ziff Davis's global audience, provide access to new markets and expand its product lineup.