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In a press release Forum Business Media Ltd is delighted to announce that at the beginning of June 2015, it acquired the assets of Regional Training Agency Ltd

has agreed to purchase Korbitec (Pty) Ltd from the Naspers Group for an undisclosed amount. The transaction is subject to approval by the South African Competition Commission. Korbitec is a leading provider of content-enabled workflow solutions for South African property professionals, with two leading products, GhostConvey and Windeed, in addition to its Banking and Municipal […]

In a bid to strengthen the company’s capabilities in the brand commerce space, Dentsu Aegis Network has reached an agreement to acquire UK eCommerce specialist eCommera. Terms were not disclosed, but Dentsu said the acquired firm would be aligned with its digital marketing agency network Isobar. The company, with a staff of 275, will continue […]

Mobile programmatic ad-buying is taking off. Rubicon Project, a large ad exchange and ad tech provider, last week shared that mobile now accounts for over 20% of the company’s total managed revenue, up from less than 3% just one year ago. That represents a spend increase of 1,300%, and Rubicon doesn’t expect it to slow down […]

Martha Stewart has sold her media and merchandising business to Sequential Brands, a retail licensing group, for about $353m, marking a dramatic fall in the value of an lifestyle business empire that was worth nearly $2bn at its peak in 2005. For the full story read next.ft.com

When Spotify raised more than $500m this month in a funding round that valued the music streaming company at $8.5bn, investors played down the risk of it being crushed in a bruising battle with Apple. For the full story read next.ft.com

The head of the Economist Group has promised a return to revenue growth in the next twelve months, after falling print advertising caused a third successive year of declining sales. Chris Stibbs said the company — which owns the Economist magazine and other information businesses — had lost about £50m, or 46 per cent of the […]

Reed Exhibitions, part of RELX Group, announced today that it will expand its jewelry event portfolio with the acquisition of Jewelers International Showcase (JIS). JIS has three annual business-to-business events, for jewelry retailers, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Thousands of retailers attend the JIS Events from the United States, Caribbean and Latin America to […]

Four in ten (39 per cent) of UK Internet users use ad-blocking technology to curb the number of promotions they see while browsing as they become increasingly dissatisfied with the types of ads on show, according to a new study. It’s not surprising then that many publishers are “abandoning the old models in favour of new […]

The biggest question comes right from Tim Cobbold’s strategic presentation in which he makes clear that the global exhibition industry is attractive because it is growing at 5% annually and yet remains fragmented. But the (almost) single-minded pursuit of “events” may be flawed

Electric Word plc are pleased to announce the disposal of the trade and certain assets of the Company’s subsidiary, Radcliffe Publishing Limited (“Radcliffe Publishing”) to Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group and a subsidiary of Informa plc

Blendle, a Dutch startup that’s applying a Netflix style marketplace to journalism, has signed up the mainstay of German publishers to its pay-per-article market

Published to date by PSP Publishing Limited, No.1 Magazine has been in circulation for almost 10 years

WPP announces that GroupM, the leading global media investment management group, has acquired Greenhouse Group in The Netherlands

Advertising agency WPP announced on Wednesday that its GroupM operating company has bought New Zealand-based media agency Chemistry Media

BT has made its most serious foray into television drama, signing an exclusive deal to carry the British channel of US network AMC

With all the hype at Apple’s WWDC surrounding the launch of its new digital music streaming service (Apple Music) as well as a new 24 hour global radio station (Beats 1), it was easy to miss one big announcement that could have a massive impact on the publishing industry

Apple is accused of attempting to launch its new Spotify rival, Apple Music, in a way that would leave Britain’s independent record labels “completely screwed” and struggling to survive

V and media production group Ten Alps, as the business snapped up the maker of factual shows including Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is in a £5m deal

Researchers at Oxford University found that digital subscriptions and online advertising were failing to compensate for the collapse in newspaper sales