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20 years after being founded, Matt Warman examines how Yahoo is turning itself into a giant of Silicon Valley acquisitions.

Last week, Rodale announced the launch of Rodale U – a new platform offering paid online learning courses. Amy Duffin spoke to Rodale’s SVP of digital operations and strategy, Beth Buehler, about the thinking behind this new product.– See more at: FIPP.Com

What is it about daily newspapers? Falling circulations and advertising have broken business models that cannot be mended even by booming digital audiences. But you wouldn’t guess it.

The FT is a leader in crossing over from print — digital subscribers now make up 70 percent of its paying audience, a number that keeps growing

Reed Elsevier plans to change its name to RELX Group and to simplify its corporate structure by combining the assets below its UK and Dutch parent companies into a single group entity for the first time

Rodale has been testing out numerous revenue-generating brand extensions in recent years, from an ecommerce site to branded foods. Today, the publisher of titles like Women’s Health and Runner’s World is officially debuting Rodale U, a new platform offering paid online courses.  – See more at: FIPP.Com

NME staff are understood to have been told that discussions have been held with promoters and partners about the prospect of the magazine going free

UBM Asia will be organising the first Business4Better China (B4B China), a non-profit event for establishing community partnership projects, from 15 – 16 July 2015 at Shanghai KIC Conference Center, China.

When it comes to digital-to-print developments, commentators often refer to internet pureplays entering the world of print – Net-a-Porter with Porter, Airbnb with Pineapple, and so on

French advertising holding company Havas achieved 3.5 percent organic sales growth on revenue of 551 million euros in the fourth quarter, finishing a strong year driven by new contract wins and strength in Britain and emerging markets

Alex Northcott sets up new media database for PRs four months after selling his former business for up to £200m. Alex Northcott, who founded Gorkana in March 2003, has launched Roxhill Media with two other former staff of the digital PR jobs and media industry information company

The march of native advertising continued this week, as Forbes dispensed with another traditional taboo. It put a native ad on the cover of its print edition for the March 2, 2015 issue, due out on newsstands on Monday.

Publicis Groupe reported that consolidated revenue grew 4.3% to $9.625 billion in 2014, driven by stronger fourth-quarter organic growth of 3.2%

Following a successful Mostra Convegno Expocomfort (MCE) in Milan, with over 2,000 exhibitors and over 35,000 visitors, Reed Exhibitions has announced two new events this year. Reed are launching MCE Asia in Singapore and MCE Saudi in Riyadh later this year

Interpublic reported relatively strong results for fourth-quarter and full-year 2014, beating its financial targets for the year and bringing its operating margin closer to “fully competitive,” Chairman-CEO Michael Roth said in a statement released Friday morning

Publicis Groupe has reported pre-tax income of €1.04 billion, down 5.5 per cent after what its chief executive and chairman, Maurice Lévy, has described as a “patchy year”

The picture is stark – people in the UK are continuing to buy fewer magazines, with total circulations in the marketplace tumbling by more than 15 million copies in 2014.

The Time Inc UK title, launched as New Musical Express, had an average weekly print circulation of just 13,995 in the second half of last year, down 23% on the same period in 2013, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Thursday

Premier League clubs are celebrating another huge windfall after competition between BT and Sky drove the overall value of the live TV rights to more than £5.14bn over three seasons.

Time Inc has partnered with ad tech company MediaMath to launch what it claims to be the first “programmatic print” offering for advertisers