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Weber Shandwick has acquired Swedish PR agency Prime and its business intelligence arm United Minds

Zoopla Property, the property website majority owned by Daily Mail & General Trust, enjoyed record internet traffic, revenues and earnings in the six months to end-March

Zoopla Property, the property website majority owned by Daily Mail & General Trust, enjoyed record internet traffic, revenues and earnings in the six months to end-March

F+W has sold a majority stake to Tinicum L.P., a New York-based private equity firm

In another sign of the accelerating shift online in the advertising business, the Boston marketing agency Jack Morton Worldwide Inc. is acquiring a local digital agency, Genuine Interactive Inc

Automattic, the parent company of popular blog-hosting and publishing platform WordPress, has raised a funding round of $160 million to help it develop better online and mobile tools for publishing, a round that values the company at over $1 billion

American Express recently dropped an RFP on the desks of some of the globe’s biggest ad-tech companies with some startling news

Lewis PR has acquired UK-based digital marketing agency Purestone in an all cash transaction

Disney sits in third place, behind the American broadcaster DirecTV and first-placed Google, in ZenithOptimedia’s list

When the Canton Fair pulled the curtains down on its 115th session, the tally of deals confirmed what organisers had feared – China’s exports are continuing to face economic headwinds

At March’s Geneva Motor Show, a 15-minute press conference cost the world’s largest carmakers a cool €550 a second. For many in the industry, such extravagance is looking like an overpriced luxury that it no longer has the stomach for

social media investors are getting gun-shy in 2014, judging by substantial declines in the stock prices of big social media companies including Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

WPP announces that it has agreed to acquire Quirk, Africa’s largest independently owned digital marketing agency

Perform reports good early progress in cost cutting and revenue growth

News Corp has had its head turned by Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian owner of the Mills & Boon romance franchise, at a cost of £240m

News Corp has had its head turned by Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian owner of the Mills & Boon romance franchise, at a cost of £240m

Zillah Byng-Maddick, the former chief financial officer who became chief executive of Future on 1 April, revealed the plans in an email sent to all staff across Future’s offices in the UK, US and Australia

WPP announces that GroupM has agreed to take majority stake in aMVG (Aerodeon), the leading mobile media agency and mobile technology company in Turkey

WPP announces that it has acquired Twist Image Multimedia Inc in Canada, a leading creative digital marketing agency

Japanese communications giant Dentsu Aegis Network has announced it has agreed to purchase of a majority stake in Brazilian full service ad agency NBS