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Press release: Infopro Digital announces agreement to enter into the acquisition of DOCUgroup and accelerates its international expansion

Press release: Diversified Communications today announced they have acquired Tent Exhibitions Ltd., a UK company that owns London Design Fair and co-located events: Tent London and Super Brands London

Despite reporting a healthy 20% increase in net income for 2017 to $15.9bn (£10.5bn), Facebook reported declines in user numbers and usage time

Preyss Release: London based Clarion Events, one of the world’s leading independent events organisers, has completed a merger with Global Sources, a leading Asian exhibitions and online B2B marketplace operator based in Hong Kong. Funds managed by Blackstone will control the combined group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed

ngus Montgomery Ltd, one of the world’s oldest exhibition and events organisers, has acquired a majority stake in FIT Events Ltd, organiser of the Fabricator Installer Trade (FIT) Show

Press release:Terrapinn [www.terrapinn.com], the global events company, announced today that it has acquired Science Media Partners (SMP) [www.sciencemediapartners.com], an international events and publishing company based in the UK and focused on next-generation government, citizen and consumer-based identity solutions.

RELX Group announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of ThreatMetrix, for a consideration of £580m payable in cash.

Thomson Reuters is in advanced discussions for a sale of part of its financial and risk business, its largest unit by revenues, to US private equity firm Blackstone. The company confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that it was considering a sale of a stake in the business to Blackstone but would retain an interest in the unit.

Press release: dmg events Middle East, Asia & Africa, a leading international events company, has acquired boutique business forum organizer Atticus Events. Focused specifically on the interior design of luxury hotels, HI Design organises specialist business meetings between key buyers from currently active hotel projects and a curated selection of International FF&E suppliers. With each edition held in a different five star hotel location, HI Design events are currently run annually in Europe, Asia and MEA.

Effective 23 January 2018, the Belgian division of the multinational group Easyfairs – specialised in organising events and managing exhibition halls and congress centres – is taking over the event activities of the non-profit association Textirama.

UK ad spend will only grow by 0.3% in 2018 according to the Institute Practitioners in Advertising’s (IPA) latest Bellwether report

Press release: The Boards of Informa PLC (“Informa”) and UBM plc (“UBM”) today announced the key financial terms of a proposed combination (the “Proposed Combination”) of Informa with UBM to create a leading B2B Information Services Group (the “Combined Group”).

Nearly a decade after a merger attempt collapsed, the trade show organisers Informa and UBM are again in talks about a combination, investors were told this evening

According to The Sunday Times Vladimir Peksa had agreed to sell Mintec, which he founded in 1982, to the private equity firm Synova Capital for an estimated £30m. The deal could be announced as early as this week.

A former Ministry of Defence mandarin is trying to buy the magazines Marie Claire, Wallpaper and NME for as much as £150m.

Press release: XLMedia (AIM: XLM), a leading provider of digital performance marketing, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire a number of leading Finnish gambling related informational websites from Good Game Ltd (the “Acquisition”) for a total cash consideration of up to €15 million. The Acquisition is expected to complete during the first quarter of 2018 and to be immediately earnings enhancing in the current financial year following completion.

WPP’s new unit Kantar Consulting has acquired brand consultancy Mash Strategy for an undisclosed sum.

Facebook is planning sweeping changes to its newsfeed, as Mark Zuckerberg pledges to help users have more meaningful social interactions on the platform by prioritising posts from friends and family at the expense of those from publishers. Mr Zuckerberg said users would see less public content “like posts from businesses, brands and media”. This content would be prioritised based on whether it encouraged interactions between people, rather than “passively read”.

Amazon reports its voice device Echo was its top seller over the holidays. Hearst is hoping to plant its feet firmly in technology’s future, too. The company has been experimenting successfully with content on both the Echo and Google Home.

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”), the international business information and events group, today announces that it has sold its Institutional Investor Journals (II Journals) business to Pageant Media