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Regional newspaper company’s adjusted profits last year fell to £67.3m, and parent company Gannett UK’s titles dropped 5.4%

UBM, which has a market capitalisation of £1.4bn, announced on Wednesday that the proposed purchase will be funded by a £563m rights issue and a $100m bridge facility

A clash between Google and European media groups stepped up a gear on Wednesday after the US tech company announced that it would stop publishing snippets of their articles in search results

The launch of MyMail is aligned with the expansion of the publisher’s loyalty programme, Mail Rewards Club, which will now also include offers from Amazon and iTunes

Spada is to merge with US legal specialist, Infinite PR, in a move that will create a Transatlantic consultancy with an initial turnover of more than $7m (£4m)

Spada is to merge with US legal specialist, Infinite PR, in a move that will create a Transatlantic consultancy with an initial turnover of more than $7m (£4m)

News Corp and Move, Inc. announced today that News Corp has agreed to acquire Move inc, a leading online real estate business

Beacons are all the rage, and for good reason. The small Bluetooth wireless transmitters that hide inconspicuously on doorways, shelves, checkout counters and more have the opportunity to completely revolutionize the consumer experience

In an Pre-Close Trading Update ITE reported this morning that following a better than expected trading performance in Q4 and good cost control, headline profits before tax for FY 2014 will be ahead of current consensus

UBM plc announces the proposed acquisition of the entire issued and outstanding capital stock of VSS-AHC Consolidated Holdings Corp (also known as Advanstar Communications) from the current shareholders of Advanstar for a total cash consideration of US$972 million (£599 million)

It’s been 18 months since UBM Tech officially killed its print magazines

Wothington has bought assets including The Digital Marketing Show, The Great British Entrepreneurs Awards, and The Digital Marketing Magazine.

The Flying Show, organised by Seager Publishing, will be held at International Centre in Telford on 22-23 November

More than 250 exhibitors have signed up for new food show Food Matters Live coming to Excel London on 18-20 November

McGraw Hill Financial has sold its construction media division to Palo Alto-based private equity firm Symphony Technology Group

Townsquare Media is bolstering its publishing portfolio with the acquisition of XXL, a hip hop title previously owned by Harris Publications

The big news out this morning in the programmatic space was the updated tracking study from Interpublic’s Mediabrands’ Magna Global unit, which forecasts programmatic media-buying to reach $53 billion in global ad spend in 2018

Digital edition sales growth is nowhere near making up for declining print circulation. The conclusion has to be that digital newsstands – certainly for magazines but also for newspapers – aren’t delivering enough sales for all but a few publications to build a business model on

Sponsored (native) content is in the spotlight again and this time Amex gets is knuckles rapped.

Millennials are indeed highly social, says the report, but there remains confusion about where their social activity takes place and how best to activate it. As a result some marketers may be misconstruing how best to engage with them, suggests the report