Not bad for a Friday: according to Reuters, Informa succeeded in taking control of the Datamonibores (themselves having recently acquired Ovum and a little less recently Butler):
Informa wins control of Datamonitor [Yahoo! Finance]
There's been quite a few conversations in the AR world:
- Informa buys Datamonitor (and Ovum, Butler) [Technobabble 2.0], check the comments of a Datamonibore and Duncan about Datamonitor being valued higher than Forresterzzzzz
- Thoughts on Informa and Datamonitor [Analyst Insight]: again, great comments about the value of combining marketing and events with IT analysis (we like when David puts his thinking hat on :-)
Jonny summarised everything here:
Other relevant posts for the sake of completeness:
- Will Informa compete with Gartner, or IDC? [ARmadgeddon]
- Informa Group to acquire Datamonitor plc [Tekrati]
- Informa to buy Datamonitor [ARcade]
- Informa purchase values Datamonitor as worth more than Forrester [Analyst equity]
- Bigger is not always better [Positioning power]
- Informa + Datamonitor [Freeform comment]
Check also this old post on Aberdeen, there would be a lot to be said on the similarities:
- Aberdeen is finally recategorised [ARmadgeddon]
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