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The Comexposium Group is strengthening its leadership in the private and public works’ councils sector through its acquisition of France CE

Daily Mail and General Trust shares fell 11 per cent to a four-month low, after it became the latest newspaper publisher to be hit by falling UK advertising

First, Axel Springer was outbid in an auction to buy the FT Group, owner of the Financial Times, just as it had lost out in the sale of another British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, in 2004. Second, talks with German broadcaster ProSiebenSat. 1 about a possible merger broke down

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PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it has acquired a 51% interest in Revo Media Partners Limited, owner of LuxLive, the UK’s largest dedicated lighting event, and Lux Magazine and Lux Review, the leading trade publications in the energy efficiency lighting space

This strategic acquisition complements the Mobile Media Summit (MMS) network of events established in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Miami, Las Vegas, Barcelona and Cannes, acquired in February 2015

The new company is to be rebranded Aardman Nathan Love, in a merger that would create Aardman’s first production facility outside of the UK

Edelman has bought London-based financial PR and investor relations firm Smithfield Consultants, an acquisition described by UK & Ireland CEO Ed Williams as one of the “last pieces in the jigsaw” for the group’s UK offering. For the full story read PR Week

Hearst is putting $21 million into Complex Media in exchange for a minority stake in the millennial-focused publisher

Dentsu Inc. will remain acquisitive for the foreseeable future, with a particular focus on faster-growing geographies and high-value areas in the digital space

More than half of all UK adspend will be digital next year, Carat has predicted, with the total market to grow by 6.4 per cent in 2015

Axel Springer, the German publishing house that puts out Germany’s largest tabloid, Bild, is said to be considering buying U.S. online news publisher Business Insider

Last Wednesday Apple rolled out the latest version of its iOS operating system, and it came with a very nasty sting in the tail for newspapers, magazines and online publishers everywhere

UDG Healthcare confirmed yesterday that it is selling its drug distribution units across Ireland and a unit in its commercial services business to US drug wholesaler and Fortune 500 firm McKesson for €407.5m

Controversial software that blocks web adverts on Apple’s iPhone and iPad still topped the list of most popular paid apps during the weekend, after the leading contender was scrapped by its creator

Ben Barokas, the founder and chief executive of Sourcepoint and a former Google executive, is at Dmexco, where he described the battle between ad blockers and the media industry as “war”

Axel Springer, Europe’s biggest news publisher by circulation, has become the latest media group to pull out of Russia after the country passed a law limiting foreign ownership of its media

Media trends watcher Kantar Media says U.S. ad expenditures totaled $38 billion in the second quarter of 2015, 3.9 percent less than was spent in the same period in 2014

The Washington Post is being offered cheap-as-free to users of Amazon Prime, in a move that might finally make sense of Jeff Bezos’ plans to couple the two together. Though the number isn’t absolutely certain, Prime is speculated to have over 40 million users in the US alone

M Squared Media Ltd has announced its intention to acquire Hairdressers Journal International, Salon International and the British Hairdressing Awards from Reed Business Information (RBI)