An outfit called Eliot and Luther has just made a move on Audioboom, the Aim-listed podcasting business that was last year subject to multiple takeover rumours.
Eliot and Luther said it has bought 10pc of Audioboom with a view to building a shareholding of just under 30pc as part of a consortium of investors...
I'm not sure Betaville has ever had a US takeover story confirmed ten minutes after publishing it but that's exactly what happened during today's Markets Live session hosted by my chum Izabella Kaminska, formerly the editor of FT Alphaville, on her https://the-blindspot.com website.
Anyway, I have pasted the link below to today's transcript in case you missed it:..
It's taken fifteen years but little old Betaville today finally made it onto Markets Live as a host albeit in a slightly different way to its original format.
Let me clarify what Markets Live is for readers unfamiliar with this journalstic outlet. It was the the live knockabout chat about what is moving stock, bond and commodity markets run the Financial Times blog FT Alphaville...
Aside from The Sunday Times scoop about Clipper Logistics there were a couple of other stories in the British Sunday newspapers that caught Betaville's eye.
One of them was Mark Shapland's piece in the Mail on Sunday about the possibility of Sony Music taking an interest in Audioboom, the Aim-listed podcasting company that has been the subject of a couple of Betaville UNCOOKED Alerts...
I see the old Mark "the Kleinmanator" Kleinman of Sky News last night popped up with his own version of the Audioboom story, suggesting both Amazon and Spotify are both considering takeover offers for the Aim-listed podcasting business. Below is the link:
Rivals at The Times today picked up on the bid rumours little old Betaville has been publishing since late last year about Audioboom, the London-listed podcasting platform.
The suggestion from the newspaper was that Spotify is interested in buying Audioboom. Below is the link to the piece with the Spotify tale:..
Audioboom, the podcast platform backed by property developer Nick Candy, said to be close to completing the £135 million fundraising it needs to fund its merger with US rival Triton Digital...