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Media Mergers has brokered a sale of History of War magazine to Imagine Publishing

F2f events has sold The Back Pain Show to BackCare Trading, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the charity BackCare

C&IT has spoken to key industry figures for their reaction to the £2.9m management buyout of events agency Zibrant and the sale of Motivcom to Sodexo for £41m.

It’s the end of an era for both Apple fans and print publishing as Macworld kills its print edition

Barton is the behind Diagnostic Questions, a website which enables teachers to create and share maths questions. Since launch earlier in 2014, over 5,000 teachers have registered to use the site, creating more than 2,250 multiple choice questions

WPP announces that Kantar Health, its wholly-owned global healthcare consulting firm, has acquired Focus Assistência Médica S/S Ltda. and Classe Assistência Médica S/S Ltda. (“Evidências”), a leading healthcare research company, in Brazil

Four Communications is making preparations to buy Consolidated PR next month as it seeks to strengthen its consumer credentials. Four Communications CEO Nan Williams said that Consolidated’s size – which she claimed was around £2.5m in annual fee income – was similar to other agencies snapped up by the group, which posted a £10.8m fee […]

IDG Communications put a major reorganization plan into effect earlier today, resulting in layoffs, the end of print for Macworld and the creation of a new division

Lionel Barber: “We’ve thought very hard about the future of print and we’ve drawn one or two big conclusions. First of all, anybody who said post-dotcom boom that print is dead is wrong.”

Lionel Barber: “We’ve thought very hard about the future of print and we’ve drawn one or two big conclusions. First of all, anybody who said post-dotcom boom that print is dead is wrong.”

Yet another big publisher may be exiting the newspaper business, as Digital First Media considers selling some or all of its assets, according to a report in the The Denver Post, which is controlled by Digital First

This month, UK magazine publisher Future will be offering everyone who buys one of its print magazines the chance to download its digital counterpart for free

This month, UK magazine publisher Future will be offering everyone who buys one of its print magazines the chance to download its digital counterpart for free

Guardian News and Media (GNM) has unveiled the beta version of a tiered membership scheme offering access to events and other perks aimed at building a third revenue stream to complement the cover sales, print and digital advertising that currently make up the bulk of its revenue, while also tying a core of readers closer to the Guardian brand

Like the music industry, the Guardian has realized that the value in media isn’t in selling access to a specific product or unit of content, but in creating a deep relationship with readers and fans who want access

There are times when you wonder whether traditional publishers actually “get” digital at all. They embrace programmatic trading and then worry about falling CPMS, they extoll the virtues of native and then flood their pages with low-rent clickbait. And then they start to give away digital content again

There are times when you wonder whether traditional publishers actually “get” digital at all. They embrace programmatic trading and then worry about falling CPMS, they extoll the virtues of native and then flood their pages with low-rent clickbait. And then they start to give away digital content again

I’m glad it isn’t only me, but today I’ve seen just a glimpse of the reaction to yesterday’s news. Twitter, which raised $1.8bn in a float just under a year ago, announced yesterday that it’s looking to raise a further $1.5bn through two bonds — one for five years, the other for seven.

Mobile programmatic (on both smartphones and tablets) has also taken off in Europe. Spend on smartphones increased 894% year-over-year and spend on tablets increased 973%

In a press release today Motivcom have announced that the board of Sodexo Motivation Solutions U.K. Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sodexo SA, and the independent directors of Motivcom plc are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition under which SMSUK will acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Motivcom