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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

That deal would give BT the ability to offer customers a “quad play” package of home phone, broadband, TV and mobile

As first reported in EN last July, LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group has been announced as the buyer of the NEC in Birmingham

Holtzbrinck and BC Partners announced today that they have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media in its entirety with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education

The Havas Group has acquired Bird & Schulte Advertising, an award-winning agency based in Freiburg, Germany. The German agency, which offers a full spectrum of services for Rx and OTC, including advertising, digital media, events and medical education, will continue to build on its more-than-20-year track record of serving up what its clients’ brands need to succeed

UBM has cut 70-80 positions as it continues its reorganization under its events-first strategy, Folio: has learned. The cuts have happened over the last couple of days and are primarily centered in its UBM Tech division, representing brands that don’t directly support the event- and community-centric strategy. For the full story read Folio

According to a Sky News report today (12 January) LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Bank, is to be confirmed as the new owner of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham

Private equity-owned publishing house Immediate Media has offered to sell three magazines in a bid to appease the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

Instinctif Partners has acquired financial services PR agency Wriglesworth, creating a 90-strong corporate practice in London. For the full story read PR Week