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Business analytics division, helping companies detect fraud, moves centre stage

Getting into the search and email businesses of a stumbling first-generation Internet company won’t move Time Inc. forward

Publishers with more than 10m blocked ads have to pay 30% of the revenue from previously blocked ads to make it on to whitelist

Private equity group’s return on the value of its investment in used-cars site is nearly five times

When Apple said it was going to allow ad blocking on the iPhone version of its web browser last September, it escalated a conflict that had been building in the digital economy for years

Time Inc, the publisher of Sports Illustrated, People and Time magazine, is considering a deal to buy the core business of Yahoo Inc, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Time has heard a presentation from Citigroup bankers on pursuing a deal with Yahoo, the Bloomberg report said, adding that Citigroup had not been retained by Time

Print will make up just 18 percent of the revenue mix by 2020 in the US, according a new survey by Connectiv

Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve traditional media groups not so much investing in the future of news as placing their bets somewhere else entirely. Thus, the UK’s Daily Mail Group, and Hearst Corp, in the US, are investing more heavily in business media and entertainment. And even Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is now generating 35% of its profit and all its growth from digital property listings

An “unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes” — that is how Randall Rothenberg, president of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, describes ad-blocking companies

The merger gives birth to the most comprehensive B2B information and media resource in the North American grocery, convenience store, and big-box retail market, according to the new company

The Brooklyn Brothers — a fast-growing independent known for award-winning “paid” and “owned” media campaigns for brands such as NBC and Pepsi — has been acquired by one of the dominant players in “earned” media, Interpublic public relations division Golin

The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) made an operating profit of £51m last year, according to unaudited accounts leaked to the Guardian. That was £4m down on the previous year

Interpublic Group reported 6.1% organic revenue growth for 2015 on total revenues of $7.54 billion. The company’s organic growth in the fourth quarter of the year was 5.2% with total revenue of $2.2 billion

Dentsu Group has posted revenue of YEN 818.57 billion (£4.96 billion) for 2015 – a 12.8 per cent year on year increase. Gross profit for the Japanese group’s full year 2015 results stood at YEN 761.996 billion, a 12.6 per cent rise, with organic gross profit growth increasing by 7.0 per cent

VNU Exhibitions has announced its acquisition of Aquarama and Pet Asia from UBM Exhibition Singapore Pte Ltd. Aquarama is a trade show covering fish, invertebrates, plants and related accessories

Artexis Easyfairs has expanded its international presence in the packaging event and congress sector with a new organiser acquisition

Disposal could fetch $3bn as group focuses on financial information products and services

Evgeny Lebedev and team have not yet made a final decision but he is expected to close 30-year-old titles

Barclay brothers believed to be testing potential City interest in newspaper group

Transaction Combines Time Inc.’s Premium Content, Subscriber and Visitor Data, and Advertising Inventory with Viant’s First-Party Data and Targeting Capabilities