Facebook Mobile Ad Share To Triple

Facebook’s share of mobile Internet ad revenues is expected to roughly triple to 15.8% in 2013 from 5.3% a year ago as the social network continues to ramp up advertising on mobile devices. That estimate from a new eMarketer report marks an increase from a prior forecast that Facebook’s share would reach 12.9% this year. >> source Mediapost […]

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Internet World relocates to Excel

After much relocating of tech events to Excel, UBM has announced that it will move Internet World and The Big Data Show to ExCel in 2014. UBM’s Internet World will now form part of The London Technology Week.

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Informa H1 2013 results

Peter Rigby comments: “It has been a very busy six months for Informa that has resulted in another strong financial performance and further improvement to the underlying quality of earnings. The sale of our non-core Corporate Training businesses will leave us leaner and more resilient, with a sharper focus on higher growth assets offering an […]

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ITE Group extends Cosmobeauté into Myanmar

Malaysian-based ECMI ITE Asia, a subsidiary of the ITE Group, has announced the extension of its Cosmobeauté exhibition series into Myanmar. Cosmobeauté is Southeast Asia’s premier event for the professional beauty industry and is already organised in Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. The new event will be held at the Myanmar Convention Centre, Yangon from 6-8 June 2014.

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UBM strengthens ties with China

David Levin, CEO of UBM plc visited China from May 26 to June 5, 2013 and had successful meetings and exchanges with Chinese government bodies and exhibition industry during his visits to Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.

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David Gilbertson joins Briefing Media as non executive chairman

Former EMAP and Informa CEO David Gilbertson has joined TheMediaBiefing’s parent company, Briefing Media, as non executive chairman. While in charge of Emap (since renamed Top Right Group), Gilbertson was responsible for introducing paywalls across Emap’s websites. He wrote about the move in one of the first articles to appear on TheMediaBriefing. He was one […]

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