February 2022
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‘Not an option’: Media monitoring veteran leaving Australia behind
Truescope chief executive John Croll is focused on global expansion and is not yet interested to raising capital for an Australian arm of the company.
- Miranda Ward
December 2021
Media monitoring firm Streem acquired by Chicago-based Cision
Streem wants to be part of the global media monitoring and analysis market and is set to focus on moving into social media, and earned media measurement and analysis as a result of this deal.
- Miranda Ward
November 2021
News Corp takes iSentia to court over copyright infringement
Australian News Channel, which runs Sky News, wants the Federal Court to stop the media monitoring firm from providing their content to government clients.
- Miranda Ward
June 2021
Isentia takeover pegs true cost of ‘cyber incident’
The attractive takeover offer being promoted on Tuesday is still below where shares traded prior to Isentia’s admission of a cyber disaster in October.
- Tom Richardson
UK-based company acquires struggling Isentia
The media monitoring company will disappear from the ASX should the deal worth $67 million go ahead.
- Miranda Ward
Isentia’s ex-CEO pinches its client
Struggling Isentia has a competitor in south-east Asia and it’s being led by its former chief executive.
- Tom Richardson
May 2021
NSW govt flying blind on Oz coverage
Rupert Murdoch’s favourite newspaper has cut the cord on media monitor Meltwater, leaving its twitchy clients reeling.
- Myriam Robin
February 2021
Financial Review expands subscriber strategy to media monitors
The Australian Financial Review will no longer allow the customers of media clippings services such as iSentia, Streem and Meltwater to read articles in full unless users are subscribers of the masthead.
June 2020
October 2019
Streem lures iSentia's auditor
iSentia is worth a fraction of what it was in 2014, and now operates in a competitive market against global and home-grown competitors.
- Myriam Robin
September 2019
NSW Government advisers see red over media monitoring
As far as knowing what local media was saying about them, was the government running blind?
- Myriam Robin
October 2018
Buy, hold, sell: Pact Group, iSelect, Thorn Group, Fletcher Building, iSentia
James Marley speaks with Forager Funds' Steve Johnson and Investor Mutual's Marc Whittaker about five out-of-favour stocks.
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March 2018
Pricing power key to corporate success
In a low growth environment, pricing power is the illusive ingredient that professional investors look for in listed companies to drive shareholder returns.
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- Stewart Oldfield
November 2017
Directors in firing line as executive remuneration strikes fall
Just six top companies have received a ''strike'' this AGM season as boards took a tougher line on CEO pay but directors are now in the firing line.
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- Patrick Durkin
October 2017
Isentia second-largest shareholder asks CEO why he's still here
If Isentia's long-serving CEO John Croll wasn't terrified before, he should be now.
- Myriam Robin
September 2017
How Lego rebuilt itself as 'the Apple of toys'
The Danish toymaker's bricks have built an innovation platform for Isentia.
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- Andrea Walsh
July 2017
How the Rich Invest: Peter Scanlon
Peter Scanlon is a shareholder in takeover target Programmed Maintenance Services, the best performing stock on the market this month.
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- John Stensholt
Don't get sidetracked by the market bears
Equity markets had a good time of it in 2016-17 but the upshot is that investors now risk being side-tracked by speculation over whether shares are over or under-valued.
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- ST Wong
The Sydney hedge fund that's keeping it simple
This Sydney hedge fund manager started his career in the mailroom, also manages a fish and chip shop, and aims for steady returns. The fund has returned 13.8 per cent annualised.
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- Jonathan Shapiro
June 2017
Why is London consultancy knocking around beaten up iSentia?
The latest underperforming company in the crosshairs of would-be suitors is media intelligence and content marketer, iSentia.
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- Edited by Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Joyce Moullakis