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Exponent Private Equity dashed to the finish line yesterday at it completed the acquisition of the leading horse and sports betting publication The Racing Post

In the latest progress-with-caveats, Apple is allowing publishers to sell digital subscriptions from inside the Apple News app, giving them access to a much larger potential subscriber base. But that’s hedged around, as always, by constraints intended to maintain consumer privacy — and Apple’s control over access to them

Time Inc UK yesterday announced the launch of Cake International, the official magazine of the leading cake show

Press release: London: Informa (LSE: INF.L), (“Informa”), the international Business Intelligence, Exhibitions, Events and Academic Publishing Group, has reached agreement with MidOcean Partners and Wasserstein & Co to acquire the entire issued and outstanding capital stock of Penton, the leading independent US-based Exhibitions and Professional Information Services group for £1,180m

Decline to outstrip losses in newspaper and magazine advertising combined, while mobile ads to grow

Overdue update will take account of rise of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

Music streaming revenues in the UK grew by 49 per cent, to £251m, last year according to a new report on the state of the industry — but the country’s live music market contracted by 2 per cent. Measuring Music, published by the industry’s umbrella group UK Music, found that the growth in streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music is “the key to renewed and continued growth for British music and its artists globally”

Cosin & Associados Consultoria e Serviços de Informática – to give it its full title – was established in 2005 by brothers Arnaldo and Alessandro Cosin, who previously worked in major consulting companies Accenture, IBM and CapGemini. The firm’s services include business consulting, IT consulting and project management with a deep specialism in retail. Based in São Paulo, it now employs around 200 professionals

Brussels will take a step towards adjusting its arcane VAT rules to the digital age by allowing reduced rates of tax on ebooks

The Brand Events Pet Portfolio, including the National Pet Shows and Dogfest, has been acquired by Fitz All Media, the organisers of ONE LIVE Festival and The VET Festival

In line with its consistent endeavors toward transforming into a data-driven company, Time Inc. recently bought a customer survey provider, Bizrate Insights, which was previously owned by Connexity Inc. It also stated that Bizrate Insights’ survey platform will be combined with its affinity marketing subsidiary, Synapse Group, Inc.

Media agency WPP has invested in UK-based online medical education provider, The Corpus.The Corpus has developed a dedicated online platform to provide small-group interactive training sessions for healthcare practitioners delivered by clinicians

The long-prophesied wave of b2b media consolidation has not come crashing down quite yet, but the sector still saw its fair share of significant mergers and acquisitions over the first six months of 2016. The year began in the wake of Cision’s $841 million purchase of PR Newswire from UBM, which continues to reassert it’s “events-first” business strategy.

WPP said on Tuesday that Plista, a provider of data-driven native advertising and part of Xaxis – its global programmatic media company – has acquired Oslo-based real-time content analytics group Linkpulse. Linkpulse works with over 120 publishers in Europe, enabling them to track the performance of articles across devices via customised dashboards and alerts. WPP […]

Peter Dubens, the publicity-shy entrepreneur who floated Time Out magazine, has generated a €129m (£108m) windfall for his listed private equity firm Oakley Capital, after it sold an online dating website to a German broadcaster

Marcoms giant Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired data-driven programmatic ad company Accordant Media for an undisclosed sum

The US division of Swedish magazine publisher Bonnier will be shuttering several travel magazine print editions, according to a report from Keith Kelly at the NY Post. The magazines effected are Islands, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons, and Caribbean Travel & Life, which was made into a supplement of Islands a while ago. All three will see their last print editions published by the end of the year, a new digital version of Islands is planned for 2017

The publisher of the Guardian and a private equity firm have cashed in £200m of shares in business media firm Ascential

United Kingdom-based provider of employee engagement and customer engagement services will expand Blackhawk’s growing incentives business portfolio

United Kingdom-based provider of employee engagement and customer engagement services will expand Blackhawk’s growing incentives business portfolio