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BlueFocus Communications Group – has completed its £36.5m investment in Huntsworth.

Jon Lund fears that the app-based tablet approach to magazines leads straight to oblivion, at least for individual magazine titles

Centaur Media Plc is close to naming Andria Vidler as CEO, according to two people familiar with the matter

Britons spend one in 12 waking minutes online, pushing ad spend to record high. Companies boost internet, smartphone and tablet advertising by 17.5% year on year to £3bn in the first half of the year.

Media, information, marketing and related technology sectors merged and acquired to the tune of $67.5 billion — about 1,057 deals — during the first three quarters in 2013

Media, information, marketing and related technology sectors merged and acquired to the tune of $67.5 billion — about 1,057 deals — during the first three quarters in 2013

Grazia readers can now shop as they read with the launch of the magazine brand’s new e-commerce driven iPhone app

Aegis announced the acquisition of Scottish independent Media Vision, which will be combined with Aegis’ existing Carat Edinburgh office to form Carat Scotland.

Skyscanner, the world’s fastest growing international travel search company, has completed an investment from US based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital

UBM Asia announces the launch of Philbeauty, a brand new international beauty trade show in Philippines

Aegis Media today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire Traffic LLC a leading full-service digital agency in Russia

Aegis Media today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire Traffic LLC a leading full-service digital agency in Russia

Immediate Media launches Mr Men and Little Miss Magazine

Immediate Media launches Mr Men and Little Miss Magazine

Further to its announcement on April 4, 2013, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, confirms that it has completed the acquisition of HSBC’s Quantitative Techniques

Axel Springer acquires a 50.1 percent majority stake in Runtastic

Publicis Groupe announced today the signing of a definitive agreement to increase its equity stake to 51% in its long-term Romanian partner agencies Leo Burnett & Target, Starcom MediaVest Group, Optimedia, The Practice and iLeo.

Alastair Gornall was recently appointed to take over as Chairman of Dod’s whilst Keith Sadler retained a combined role of CEO and CFO. The board of Dod’s has now decided that the roles should be split with Gornall taking over the CEO role with immediate effect. For the full RNS click Dod’s

Alastair Gornall was recently appointed to take over as Chairman of Dod’s whilst Keith Sadler retained a combined role of CEO and CFO. The board of Dod’s has now decided that the roles should be split with Gornall taking over the CEO role with immediate effect. For the full RNS click Dod’s

Informa, one of the world’s leading knowledge providers, today announces the completion of the disposal of its five Corporate Training businesses to Providence Equity Partners