synopsis: Allin Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified technology consulting company, has acquired the SharePoint Hosting domain properties and related SharePoint assets of SmithBridge Technology Group, Inc.

synopsis: Oakley Capital Investments Limited, the company established to provide investors with access to the investment strategy being pursued by Oakley Capital Private Equity L.P ., announced that the Fund has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in intergenia AG, a leading web hosting company providing managed, dedicated and cloud hosting.

synopsis: Optimal Networks, Inc. has acquired Peak Hosted Solutions, a hosted services provider, to augment their cloud computing services offerings. Peak implements practical solutions to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of a company’s on-site operations while growing their businesses remotely through virtual office technology.

synopsis: Carpathia Hosting, Inc., a leading provider of managed hosting services for enterprises and government agencies that require 100% availability, announced that Spire Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in Carpathia. Under the agreement, the original investors participated in the deal with the former CEO staying on board.

synopsis: Hostopia.com, Inc. and Tucows Inc. signed a definitive agreement for Hostopia to purchase certain of Tucows' shared hosting customer assets including approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain.com (IYD) customer accounts.

synopsis: Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier data center and managed services provider, announced today that the company has been acquired by ABRY Partners, a Boston, Massachusetts private equity firm for $140 million.

synopsis: SYNNEX Corporation, a global IT supply chain services company, has purchased controlling interest of China Civilink . China Civilink operates in China as HiChina Web Solutions and will continue to operate as a stand-alone entity under the HiChina Web Solutions name.

synopsis: Hostway Corporation and Affinity Internet Inc. announced that Hostway has acquired Affinity, combining two of the most prominent web-centric service providers, with clients ranging from consumers, small to medium-sized businesses and large enterprises.

synopsis: Savvis, Inc., a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Fusepoint, Inc., a leading independent provider of managed IT and colocation services to enterprises in Canada.

synopsis: HostMySite, a leading application hosting provider, announced that it has acquired Louisville, KY-based Hosting.com. This move marks HostMySite's first step in its plan to become the preeminent national platform for the delivery of managed services, colocation, dedicated servers and virtualized application services.

synopsis: Parked.com, a leading domain parking company, announced that it has acquired WhyPark, a domain development company. The purchase creates synergies between the two companies by combining WhyPark's strength in developing traffic with Parked.com's competitive advantage in monetizing traffic.

synopsis: GlowHost.com, Inc., a Web Hosting service provider of cPanel Shared Web Hosting, Reseller Web Hosting, and Managed Dedicated Servers, has purchased Reseller Webhosting provider DataCities.com from BannerView.com. The sale includes the DataCities.com domain name and customer base.

synopsis: Rancho Santa Monica Developments Inc. "the Company or RSDV" is pleased to announce the successful completion of the acquisition of AptHost and other key events.

synopsis: Tucows Inc. has acquired ItsYourDomain.com, a privately held, profitable ICANN-accredited registrar offering domain services through a worldwide wholesale network of over 2,500 affiliates. Tucows will pay US$10.35 million in cash for IYD with the opportunity for IYD to realize a further US$1.05 million based on specific targets.

synopsis: NeuStar, Inc. has acquired San Diego, CA-based Webmetrics, a leading provider of web and network performance testing, monitoring and measurement services, in an all-cash transaction.

synopsis: KeyDrive, a Luxembourg- and German-based company providing domain registration, monetisation and aftermarket services, has acquired the Moniker and Snapnames business units of Oversee.net, which offer businesses and individuals an array of services for domain name registration, acquisition, brokerage and sales.

synopsis: EarthLink, Inc., a leading IT services and communications provider, announced that it has completed the acquisition of the IT Solution Center and hosted application business from Synergy Global Solutions, a provider of hosted IT products, services and solutions based in Western, NY.

synopsis: Riverwood Capital, with participation from Aleksandar Mandic (founder of MANDIC) and Sidney Breyer (founder of ALOG Data Centers do Brasil), announced an investment plan which includes the acquisition and integration of Mandic SA and Tecla Internet. Tecla Internet is a data center known for its cloud computing platform.

synopsis: Six Degrees Group has completed the acquisition of Ultraspeed, a London-based managed hosting and managed cloud provider. Ultraspeed was founded in 1998 and serves a variety of FTSE 250 companies, charities and digital media customers, including Nando’s, British Heart Foundation, John Brown Media Group and Bon Voyage Travel & Tours.

synopsis: Internap Network Services Corporation, a provider of intelligent IT Infrastructure services, announced that it has acquired Voxel Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in New York City, Voxel provides on-demand dedicated hosting and cloud services to enterprises and web-centric businesses.

synopsis: Allin Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified technology consulting company, has acquired the SharePoint Hosting domain properties and related SharePoint assets of SmithBridge Technology Group, Inc.

synopsis: Allin Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified technology consulting company, has acquired the SharePoint Hosting domain properties and related SharePoint assets of SmithBridge Technology Group, Inc.

synopsis: International Greetings PLC, the leading designer and manufacturer of private label greetings products, wrapping paper, Christmas crackers and film and television character based licensed stationery, today announces the acquisition of Alligator Books Limited, a publisher and distributor of children’s books and stationery.

synopsis: Dalmatian Press has emerged has the winner in the sweepstakes to acquire Intervisual Books. Dalmatian paid about $9.6 milion to acquire the children’s book publisher, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May. Dalmatian’s bid topped an early offer of just over $7 million made by Educational Development Corp.

synopsis: International Greetings PLC, the leading designer and manufacturer of private label greetings products, wrapping paper, Christmas crackers and film and television character based licensed stationery, today announces the acquisition of Alligator Books Limited, a publisher and distributor of children’s books and stationery.

synopsis: Thomas N. Thornton, Chief Executive Officer of Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP), announces AMP's acquisition of Accord Publishing. Accord, based in Denver, Colorado, will become the Accord Division of AMP and will continue to operate its editorial, creative and publishing offices in Colorado.

synopsis: Advanced Marketing Services purchased the distribution assets of Ragged Bears Ltd., a U.K.-based book distributor whose clients include Chronicle Children’s, Moonlight Publishing, North-South Books, Ragged Bears Publishing and Lothian Books.

synopsis: Lee & Low Books, an independent publisher of high quality books for children and young adults with a focus on diversity, announced that it has acquired the assets of San Francisco-based Children's Book Press, the first specialty publisher of multicultural children's books in the United States.

synopsis: Kappa Books Publishers, LLC announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the business, intellectual property and other assets of Modern Publishing, a division of Unisystems, Inc., a New York-based mass market publisher of children's coloring and activity books.

synopsis: Amazon.com, Inc. and Marshall Cavendish, one of the world’s leading educational and consumer book publishers and classroom digital solutions providers, announced that Amazon has signed a deal to acquire over 450 titles of its US Children’s trade books business, Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books.

synopsis: ePals Corporation announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Carus Publishing Company. Carus, which includes the Cricket Magazine Group, Cobblestone Publishing and Open Court Publishing, publishes 14 magazine titles, hundreds of books and a growing collection of recognized Web and mobile applications.

synopsis: OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Fleurus Presse and Junior Hebdo, the youth publications divisions of leading French media company Groupe Le Monde.

synopsis: The nearly-finalized purchase of French publishing group Editis by Spain’s Grupo Planeta for approximately €200 million (approximately US$310,655,000) would create a giant European publisher of Spanish-language books and expand in Latin America, with a French twist.

synopsis: Mentor Medier completed the acquisition of Ny Tid Magazine from N.W. Damm & Søn on January 2, 2008.

synopsis: British private equity group Apax is pulling out of Dutch publishing group PCM. Apax bought 47.5% of PCM, which publishes the Volkskrant, NRC and Trouw newspapers, in July 2004.

synopsis: BBC Books, which publishes spinoff titles from TV shows including Delia Smith's How to Cook, has been acquired by German media giant Bertelsmann's Random House.

synopsis: Aaron's Book Corner Acquires Brightside Press.

synopsis: Lagardere SCA and Time Warner Inc. announced that Lagardere will acquire Time Warner Book Group, the fifth largest U.S. book publisher for US $537.5 million. Through this transaction, Lagardere's Book Publishing branch will become #3 worldwide.

synopsis: Audio Editions today announced that it has acquired the exclusive license for the use of the Audio Book Club company assets, including its brand, website and customer list. The agreement establishes Audio Editions as the world’s largest catalog seller of general interest audiobooks.

synopsis: Leading online retailer Amazon.com, Inc. has acquired Brilliance Audio the largest independent publisher of audiobooks in the United States. The acquisition will enable Amazon to work closely with the book publishing community to further expand the number of books produced in audio format and provide customers with an even greater selection.

synopsis: Freedom Communications announced that it has reached agreement to sell The Telegraph in Alton, IL, The Journal-Courier in Jacksonville, IL, The Sedalia Democrat in Sedalia, MO and The Lima News in Lima, OH, to an affiliate of Philadelphia-based private equity firm Versa Capital Management, LLC.

synopsis: Norwegian media group A-Pressen says it plans to buy Edda Media from the European publishing company Mecom. Edda Media AS is a Norwegian media group that owns a number of Norwegian newspapers, television channels, radio channels and websites.

synopsis: Sichuan Xinhua Winshare Chainst Co., Ltd has entered into an acquisition agreement to acquire the entire interests in the 15 companies in total, all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of Sichuan Publication Group Company Limited (SPG).