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Axel Springer’s StepStone continues its growth strategy by acquiring Saongroup, which operates job portals in 16 countries

UBM replaces Pearson in Goldman Sachs’s media sector ‘conviction buy list’. Heavyweight broker Goldman Sachs reckons the quality of media assets is improving, but that has not stopped it downgrading sector behemoths Pearson (LON:PSON) and Informa (LON:INF)

Hearst Magazines UK, the UK’s largest digital publisher, has unveiled research that shows magazine readers consume digital editions in a similar way to print editions, but have much higher expectations of interactivity

When the iPad first presented publishers with a platform well-suited to consuming digital magazines, many made the mistake of assuming selling digital editions would be just like selling print mags, but without the paper

Hearst Magazines UK has today confirmed plans to close Zest with immediate effect. The last issue of Zest (January 2014) will publish on 5th December

A management buyout led by brand director Daniel Pearce today said it had completed the purchase of Travel Trade Gazette from UBM plc

Group revenue for Q1 2013 was marginally up on the same period in 2012 as expected

The number of publishers becoming insolvent has jumped 42% over the last year. 98 publishers went bust in the last year,* up from 69 the year before, according to research by Wilkins Kennedy, the Top-25 accountancy firm

Metro’s publisher DMG Media is to compete with The London Evening Standard for homeward commuters by publishing a Metro evening tablet edition at 5pm every weekday from today

Metro’s publisher DMG Media is to compete with The London Evening Standard for homeward commuters by publishing a Metro evening tablet edition at 5pm every weekday from today

Reed Exhibitions has signed a joint venture agreement to acquire a majority share in Thebe Exhibitions & Projects Group (TEPG) based in South Africa

We continue to concentrate on the execution of our “Quickening the Pace” strategy, focusing on earnings per share growth, by investing in and strengthening our core businesses, in particular driving organic growth and adding value to our key brands through continuous innovation

Briefing Media today announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Pulse, the UK’s market-leading magazine, website and learning platform for general practitioners, to Cogora

The New York Times is seeing continued growth in subscription revenue thanks to its paywall, but at the same time its advertising revenue is still falling, both in print and online

Imagine Publishing will launch World Of Animals, a totally new wildlife magazine set to transform the global print and digital newsstand

Neustar has acquired Aggregate Knowledge, a cloud-based cross channel campaign and audience analytics provider enabling brands and agencies to aggregate and analyze data from multiple sources to provide actionable insights to optimize media planning & buying in real-time for $119m

Platts, a leading global provider of energy, petrochemical and metals information today completed its acquisition of Kingsman SA, a privately-held, Switzerland-based provider of price information and analytics for the global sugar and biofuels markets

UBM announced earlier today that the inaugural Aerotropolis Europe, Middle East and Africa Conference and Exhibition (AEMEA) will take place in Manchester, UK 8-10 July 2014

inVentiv Health announced today that it has acquired Catalina Health and combined the organization with Adheris

Facebook reported better than expected Q3 results today with revenues up 60% year on year.