Trader Interactive Acquisition & Valuation

Visual China Group Co Ltd is engaged in providing digital visual content and visual solutions to customers in media, commercial, and consumer sectors. It services include Copyright removal, rights protection agent, Sports, Entertainment and Digital marketing, and Special shooting.

Nook Media is a Barnes & Noble subsidiary focused on e-readers and digital content delivery. Formed in 2012, it produces Nook devices running Android with six-inch E Ink displays for reading, Wi-Fi connectivity, MicroSD slots for storage expansion, and optional user-replaceable batteries. Larger seven-inch and nine-inch color touchscreen variants serve as primary input interfaces. The lineup competes directly with Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Google Nexus 7, Kobo, and Sony Reader models. New York-headquartered, Nook Media received equity investments from Microsoft and Pearson to fuel its growth in the e-book market.

Sanoma Oyj is a learning and media company. The group publishes magazines and newspapers along with educational learning literature and services. It operates in two segments: Learning and Media Finland. Sanoma's learning products and services enable teachers to develop the talents of every child to reach their full potential. The company offers printed and digital learning content as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education. The Finnish media business of Sanoma provides information, experiences, inspiration, and entertainment via multiple media platforms: newspapers, radio, television, events, magazines, online, and mobile channels. The company's publications include Helsingin Sanomat, IltaSanomat among others.

Webtoon Entertainment Inc is a storytelling platform where a vibrant community of creators and users discover, create and share new content. It has pioneered a cultural movement by revolutionizing the storytelling format and democratizing content creation and publication connecting creators with active users around the world.

RIDI is a South Korean digital content platform often described as the country's Kindle, built around e-book retailer Ridibooks alongside Manta Comics, a subscription webtoon service, and Laftel, an animation streaming service. Founded in 2008, the Seoul-based company spans web novels, webtoons, video, and original soundtracks, competing with Naver and Kakao in Korea's webtoon and web novel markets. It has also pursued licensing deals to supply intellectual property to streaming platforms such as Netflix and Disney Plus.

Alma Media Oyj is a media and service company focusing on digital services and publishing. In addition to news content, the Group's products provide useful information related to lifestyle, career, and business development. The business segments include Alma Career, Alma Marketplaces, and Alma News Media. It generates maximum revenue from the Alma Career segment. The group's business is mainly divided into two geographical areas, Finland from where it earns the majority of its revenue, and the rest of Europe.

New Guomai Digital Culture Co Ltd is a China telecom company. It is engaged in Internet video content applications, games, digital reading, digital animation and new media, application distribution, point operations, business travel booking and hotel operation management.

SmartNews is a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregator app powered by machine learning algorithms that curate personalized feeds from thousands of sources. Available on iOS and Android, it prioritizes diverse content to counter filter bubbles, covering topics from US politics to Japanese tech. The company operates offices in San Francisco and New York, serving millions of daily users with offline reading capabilities and instant notifications for breaking stories.

Xinhuanet Co Ltd operates in the internet content and information industry. It owns and manages a news information service portals in China. Its business activities are divided into the following: online advertising, information services, website construction, technical services and mobile internet. Its online advertising business provides full-screen shrink, rear projection, streaming media and other forms of advertising. Its information services include multimedia information services and big data intelligent analysis services. The website construction and technical service business engage in website construction, content management and operation. The mobile internet business provides mobile internet content information services through text, images, voice, video and other forms.

Ziff Davis Inc is a digital media and internet company operating a portfolio of brands across technology, shopping, gaming and entertainment, health and wellness, connectivity, and cybersecurity. The company has five reportable segments. The Technology & Shopping segment generates revenue from advertising and commerce content. The Gaming & Entertainment segment provides content, subscriptions, and digital storefront services. The Health & Wellness segment offers digital tools and content for health management. The Connectivity segment provides data and analytics solutions for network performance. The Cybersecurity & Martech segment delivers cloud-based software for security and marketing. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Health & Wellness segment.

Inmyshow Digital Technology (Group) Co Ltd is engaged in providing broadcasting services. It covers sports broadcasting like football live, basketball live, football videos, basketball videos, sports news, team database services, and others.

TX Group AG is a Swiss company with a network of digital platforms. It offers information, orientation, entertainment, and services to its users every day. The company provides newspapers and magazines. The company's operating segments include TX Markets; Goldbach; 20 Minuten; Tamedia and Group and Ventures. It generates maximum revenue from the Tamedia segment.

Kuaikan Manhua is a Shanghai-based online comics platform founded in 2014 targeting young readers with original digital artwork. It hosts thousands of titles in romance, action, and slice-of-life genres via app and website at www.kuaikanmanhua.com. Backed by Tencent, it dominates China's comic market and fosters creator communities.

Trustpilot Group PLC and its subsidiaries consist of developing and hosting an online review platform that helps consumers make purchasing decisions and businesses showcase and improve their services. Trustpilot is open, independent, and impartial and helps consumers make the right choices and businesses to build trust, grow and improve. The group consists of more than 300 million reviews and approximately 64 million monthly active users across the globe, with around 140 billion annual Trustbox impressions.

NewsBreak is a Mountain View-headquartered app delivering hyper-local news from 10,000 U.S. sources to 40 million users. Founded in 2015 by former Baidu engineers, it achieved unicorn valuation in 2021 with $115 million Series C funding. The platform monetizes through publisher tools and local ad campaigns, expanding to 500 cities.

Midu Novels is a Beijing developer of mobile apps for serialized fiction reading, including the Mi Reading Novels client featuring romance, fantasy, urban, and historical genres. It also operates the Balls Ball video app for short-form content, serving millions of users through Tencent and Huawei app stores.

BGL Group is a Peterborough-headquartered distributor of insurance products in the United Kingdom with offices in Sunderland, York, Wakefield, and Paris. It underwrites motor and home policies under the Junction brand while operating comparison sites comparethemarket.com in the UK and LeFuret.com in France. Partnerships supply branded insurance through M&S Bank, RAC, Post Office, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and Santander channels. Budget Group of Companies transformed into BGL Group Limited in 2007.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp is a media and technology company rooted in social media, digital streaming, information technology infrastructure, and more. Its initial product launch will focus on its social media platform, Truth Social, which encourages an open, free, and honest conversation without discriminating against political ideology.