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Interpublic shares were down nearly 5% in Friday morning trading after reporting third quarter numbers that were below Wall Street’s expectations.

Confidence in the UK economy has risen 18% (8.51 points) in the last twelve months to 53.95 (max 100)

The Times and The Sunday Times today celebrate reaching over 350,000 subscribers

Egmont UK has acquired publishing rights for Sonic the Hedgehog in the UK & Eire, Australia and New Zealand

UBM signed a historic 10-year agreement to host the world’s premier event for the global air traffic community – ATC Global – in Beijing, China

Reed Exhibitions will take a stake in ISO – the leading European trade fair for insulation materials and technology; an agreement to that effect has been reached between the publishing house Lambda Verlag and the world’s largest trade fair organiser

Google reported a 23 percent jump in net revenue from its Internet business

The number of British companies increasing their marketing spend grew at its strongest pace in 13 years in the third quarter, signalling growing optimism about the economy, an industry survey showed on Thursday

The Paris based holding company posted revenue of approximately $2.27 billion, up 3% with organic revenue growth of 3.5%, versus 2% in Q3 2012

Future reports a strong financial performance in Q4 FY13 and seeing encouraging momentum across all trading areas, and forward advertising bookings for Q1 FY14 are over 30% up year on year

Excluding the impact of the merger expenses, non-GAAP EBITA in Q3 2013 increased $18.7 million, or 4.5%, to $433.3 million from $414.6 million in Q3 2012

Following the success of the new animated pre-school series Peter Rabbit on CBeebies, Silvergate Media is to partner with Immediate Media to publish a four-weekly standalone Peter Rabbit magazines

Following the success of the new animated pre-school series Peter Rabbit on CBeebies, Silvergate Media is to partner with Immediate Media to publish a four-weekly standalone Peter Rabbit magazines

WPP announces that its wholly owned operating company VML, a leading digital marketing company which is part of the Y&R network, has acquired IM2.0, a digital advertising and media agency based in China

WPP announces that its wholly owned operating company VML, a leading digital marketing company which is part of the Y&R network, has acquired IM2.0, a digital advertising and media agency based in China

Euromoney is expanding its project finance and infrastructure business with the acquisition of Infrastructure Journal, a leading information source for the international infrastructure markets

ITE Group plc today announces the acquisition by its wholly owned Turkish subsidiary, E Uluslararası Fuar Tanıtım Hizmetleri A.Ş(EUF), of 100% of the shares of Platform Exhibitions owners of the Beauty Eurasia exhibition which serves the beauty, personal care and cosmetics industries in Turkey and the surrounding region

The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has purchased the watch-focused consumer show SalonQP and QP Magazine. The move follows the acquisition of VOS Media earlier in 2013 and the recent launch of a new luxury channel for the Telegraph website

Beta, the independent creative agency, has bought Midlands-based technology marketing agency Powershift to strengthen its digital proposition

Facebook Inc bought Israeli mobile app-maker Onavo to use its data-saving capabilities for a project aimed at making the Internet available to billions of people round the world who are not online