Add-on Acquisition • Information Services

News Corp Acquires VCCircle Network

On March 8, 2015, News Corp acquired information services company VCCircle Network

Acquisition Context
  • This is News Corp’s 2nd transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is News Corp’s 3rd transaction in India.

Explore All 700 Add-on Acquisition Information Services Deals - Search the Database Free


M&A Deal Summary

Date March 8, 2015
Target VCCircle Network
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) News Corp
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target Company

VCCircle Network

Noida, India
VCCircle Network is an information services group, which includes VCCircle.com, Techcircle.in, VCCEdge, VCCircle Training.
Explore More Deals

Browse All 215,130 Deals

FILTER BY

  • Buyer Type (PE or Strategic)
  • Deal Size ($10M to $10B+)
  • Sector (60 Sectors)
  • Deal Type
  • Geography
  • & More

Search Free

Buyer Overview 1

Buyer

News Corp

New York, New York, United States

Category Company
Founded 2012
Sector Media
Employees23,900
Revenue 10.1B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

News Corp is a diversified international media and entertainment company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers; book publishing; and other. The activities of News Corporation are conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin. News Corp was formed in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.


Deal Context for Buyer #
Overall 18 of 24
Sector: Information Services 2 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition 13 of 16
Country: India 3 of 4
Year: 2015 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-12-19 BigDecisions.com

Mumbai, India

BigDecisions.com is a Mumbai-based financial education website.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-09-16 Unruly Group

London, United Kingdom

Unruly Group Ltd. is an ad tech company that gets videos watched, tracked and shared across the Open Web.

Buy £58M