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Global construction information publisher, KHL Group, acquired the international market research and management consultancy company, Off-Highway Research

A major digital launch for the publisher with over £1.5m investment, Alphr will be a unique and provocative voice in the UK market covering the technologies which are changing our lives every day, in business and beyond, says Dennis Publishing

Minecraft is a simple, intuitive, and completely addictive open-world game that has sold over 55 million copies worldwide, with thousands of new players joining the ranks every day. From basic block building through to crafting items and fighting “mobs”, it’s a hugely absorbing experience that has captured the imagination of millions of children, says Dennis Publishing

PARIS–Advertising agency Publicis SA (PUB.FR) Monday said it bought French press agency Relaxnews (ALRLX.FR) for 9.58 euros ($10.4) a share or a total value of about EUR15 million. Publicis had entered into exclusive negotiations with shareholders of Relaxnews to buy the company in February at the same price.

French advertising giant Publicis (Paris: FR0000130577 – news) said Wednesday it had bought Australia’s leading independent media agency Match Media. Publicis said Match, which has 75 staff based in Sydney, will be become part of its ZenithOptimedia Group’s “newly launched global media network, Blue 449”.

Publicis Groupe chief Maurice Lévy earned a modest $3.1 million in compensation last year, a pittance compared with his peers.

The Top Right Group, parent company of i2i Events Group and Lions Festivals, has released its financial results for 2014, reporting revenue in excess of £300m (US$456m) for the first time

Messe Frankfurt has unveiled plans to bring its automotive supply chain show, Automechanika, to the UK for the first time next year

The fast growth of streaming services and pay-TV are “challenging the very premise of mandatory fees”, according to a study by PwC.

UBM plc (LSE: UBM-LN) today announces the acquisition of Hospitalar, Latin America’s largest healthcare tradeshow, from SPFC Group

Almost 300 years ago, a posh Brit called Edward Cave published the world’s first magazine. Last week, 300 metres from the London birthplace of The Gentleman’s Magazine, Cave’s 21st century successors were whipping themselves into a frenzy of enthusiasm that belied industry statistics of falling revenue, profit and readership

Broadway Events, organiser of Childcare Expo has announced the launch of a Manchester edition to be held at EventCity next year

Founder of the Week, on why the magazine has become more relevant, why it hasn’t changed in 20 years – and his saviour Felix Dennis

Vox Media, announced Tuesday night that it is buying influential tech news site and scoop machine Re/Code. Terms of the deal were not disclosed

U.K.-based information and events company Informa has been making an aggressive push into the U.S. trade show market.

Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk, has reported an operating profit before exceptional items of £54.9m for 2014

The value of medical journals in providing physicians, researchers and other medical professionals an honest glimpse of the latest relevant, peer-reviewed medical science has greatly diminished in recent years. An extensive review published in the journal PLOS Medicine shows that medical journals today serve as little more than marketing platforms for pharmaceutical companies to push their drugs with little in the r the way of unbiased science

Lorna Tilbian argues that “a continued rebound in corporate profitability and consumer spending should result in growth in display newspaper advertising”.

Newsquest Media Group, one of the leading regional media groups in the UK, announced today that it has acquired Romanes Media Group, for an undisclosed sum. Romanes is a local news publishing business operating in Scotland, Berkshire and Northern Ireland. The Romanes newspaper portfolio comprises one daily, 19 weekly paid-fors and nine weekly frees, and […]

WPP announces that Always Marketing Services, China’s leading field and shopper marketing company, has agreed to acquire 3ree, an integrated marketing company based in Singapore