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According to FIPP Emap apps with Kaldor Content and subscription business Emap has launched apps for its Architectural Review, Retail Jeweller and Ground Engineering brands

Sky’s highest customer growth in the UK in nearly a decade helped the satellite broadcaster post a 16% rise in adjusted operating profit in its first results since its £5bn acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland

DMGT’s Q1 trading update reveals mixed fortunes with underlying growth at 1%

Marcoms group Creston has issued an interim statement for the third quarter, reporting group revenue up just 1% year-on-year, resulting it says from a combination of client budget cuts and project delays within its UK health business

Easyfairs has expanded its portfolio of facilities and maintenance events with the launch of Cleaning 2015 at the NEC. The new show is set to feature alongside three complementary shows on 24-26 March, two of which are also organised by Easyfairs.

Batireno’s popularity has convinced Artexis Easyfairs take over the fair

The Mark Allen Group is adding to its music portfolio with its acquisition on Friday of the leading world music magazine, Songlines.

Marcoms giant Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired a majority stake in India’s social and digital media agency WATConsult. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed

DMGT announces that its consumer business, dmg media, has acquired Elite Daily, the news and entertainment website

Publicis Groupe (PGPEF.PK,PUBGY.PK) announced the acquisition of France-based digital marketing and social networks pure player, Monkees. Monkees is focusing particularly on retail and e-publishing. The agency will be integrated into the Publicis Activ to accelerate the digital growth of its East-West France regional agencies. For the full story read RTT News

Next Fifteen has announced plans for a share sale to raise about £4.3m

Penton, North America’s largest privately held professional information services company, announced today that it has acquired iNET Interactive, a leading event and digital information company that focuses on the booming Cloud, Hosting and Data Center segments of the technology sector.

UBM India has shut down all of its technology publications and is probably looking to exit the media business, three senior executives who were with the company confirmed to MediaNama

Artexis Easyfairs has reached an agreement with company Con-Fuse about the acquisition of FACTS

The German agency covers a range of sectors including advertising, digital media, events and medical education and will now operate as Havas Life Bird & Schulte. Donna Murphy, global CEO of Havas Health, said: “Our partnership will combine industry-leading strategy and insight with highly honoured creativity to deliver best-in-class results for our clients with a grater market reach.

We often think of digital textbooks as being read on iPads, and Apple rolled out iBooks Author, which lets users create textbooks and other interactive ebooks, in 2012. But Amazon, not surprisingly, wants in on the self-published textbook action, and on Thursday launched Kindle Textbook Creator, a beta tool that lets users convert graphics-heavy PDFs […]

PR Newswire: UBM India, India’s largest live media and events company announced their maiden show Personal Care India Expo 2015

UBM Asia Ltd expects the exhibition market in Asean to grow by an average of 10 percent per annum in the next five years

Advertisers and agencies are already sold on programmatic, but in 2015 we will see publishers fully embrace programmatic technology as they begin to realise the huge opportunity it represents for efficiency and financial growth

In the past, content brands often required local partners to enable their internationalisation strategy, requiring local content, advertising, logistics and brand development support in expanding to new markets