This week grought a number of firms putting themselves up for sale:

• Movie firm Lions Gate Entertainment, worth up to $1.8bn
• Newspaper publisher Pulitzer, valued at $1.2bn

And several deals have closed, or will do so in the next few months:

• The Adelphia auction is still running
• The Grey-takeover by WPP was delayed
• Sony bought MGM
• Dow Jones acquired MarketWatch.com

So what does this mean?

• It pays to put yourself on the auction block!
• There may be more deals like the above, e.g. ones hinted at on ...http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?dist=mktw¶m=archive&siteid=mktw&guid=%7B7B22065F%2D74F6%2D4594%2D9700%2D6F978A4B261E%7D&garden=&minisite=">CBS MarketWatch.com!(registration required)