UBM Off-Loads Music Week And More For £2.4 Million
UBM, which has been divesting some of its titles lately whilst buying up in India and Asia, is selling its UK entertainment and technology t…
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How UBM’s ‘Project Caxton’ Brainstorms Content Strategy
Right now, almost all United Business Media’s magazine websites are free. And, although the B2B publisher wants to extract more money from t…
Many Tablet Publications Are ‘Hopeless’, UBM’s Levin Says
United Business Media (LSE: UBM) CEO David Levin has taken many publishers to task for trying to shoehorn their existing publications in to…
UBM Buying Subscription Property Lead-Gen Biz LIR
PRNewswire operator United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is making its umpteenth acquisition of the year – a subscription business leads s…
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Latest In UBM’s M&A Spree: French Contacts Database For PR Newswire
Yet another acquisition from United Business Media (LSE: UBM). This time, it’s buying Hors Antenne, an operator of a French-language databas…
UBM Buying Canon Events Business For $287 million
Acquisition-prone United Business Media (LSE: UBM) says it is buying Canon Communications, a company which operates manufacturing and medica…
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Life In Dead Trees: UBM Buying A Chinese Paper Analyst Firm
United Business Media (LSE: UBM) is spending up to $880,000 to buy UM Paper, a small Shanghai company which provides analysis on China’s pap…
UBM Buys 3D Careers Fair For Military Leavers
With U.S. military operations in Iraq being wound down, there will likely be a lot of servicepeople coming home on to the civilian jobs mark…
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Another UBM Acquisition – HK PR Webcaster Corporate360
United Business Media (LSE: UBM) is buying a corporate webcasting firm to put together with its PR Newswire.
Hong Kong-based Corporate360 f…
UBM Buying SharedVue For Web Marketing Tools
Acquisition-prone B2B publisher and conference organiser United Business Media (LSE: UBM) says it’s buying SharedVue, a provider of web-base…
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UBM Buying In To Game Ads With Small GAO Acquisition
When you look at the booming popularity of online games – from World Of Warcraft to FarmVille – it’s hard not to say “let’s have a bit of th…
Early Cuts Help UBM Increase Revenue 10 Percent In 2008; Profits Down
Could it be that the recession hasn’t yet caught up with some B2B publishers? United Business Media (LSE: UBM) today announced improved rev…
Earnings: UBM Expects A Few More Layoffs By Year’s End
PRNewswire and CMP operator United Business Media (LSE: UBM) will have made more job cuts than first planned by year’s end. UBM said in last…
Earnings: UBM Expects Mixed ’08, Buys Xinhua Out Of PRNewswire JV
Web 2.0 Expo conference operator United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) says its Music Week publisher CMPi and its PRNewswire unit will post…
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Video Interview: David Levin, CEO, United Business Media: Economy Will Feel ‘Significant Effects’
Farmers Guardian, MusicWeek and TechWeb publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM) flirted with Lloyd’s List publisher Informa for a merger…
Informa Confirms Tentative Bid From 3 PE Players; Values Company At $6.8 Billion
Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which recently broke merger talked with United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has confirmed that it received a t…
Informa Ends Merger Talks With UBM; Gets Another Approach
The big B2B merger was not to be…United Business Media (LSE: UBM) and Informa have ended merger talks, the two companies notified today. T…
More Informa-UBM: Springer Owners Mull A Bid
More on the big B2B consolidation story which started last weekend: After the news came out that UBM and Informa were in early talks for a $…
B2B Consolidation: Informa And UBM In Early Merger Talks; Would Create £3 Billion Giant
United Business Media and Informa, two of the biggest B2B media companies, are in talks for a merger, the two companies said over the weeken…
B2B Consolidation: Informa and UBM In Early Merger Talks; Would Create $6 Billion Giant
United Business Media and Informa, two of the biggest B2B media companies, are in talks for a merger, the two companies said over the weeken…
Earnings: UBM Tech Falls, Events Rise In ’07; On Big Acquisition Trail
B2B publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) saw operating profit up 12.5 percent to £168.6 million in the 2007 calendar year, as r…
Interview: David Levin, CEO, UBM: Organizing For Audience; RBI Would Be ‘Backward Step’
A busy day for United Business Media – splitting its CMP tech publishing unit in four and posting 2007 results (operating profit up 11.5 per…
CMP No More: UBM Breaks Tech Media Firm Into Four Companies; UBM Not Interested in RBI Either
In a big move in the tech trade media space, United Business Media, the UK-headquartered media firm has broken out CMP into four separate co…
PR Newswire Targets Hispanic Market; Buys Hispanic PR Wire, LatinClips and Hispanic Digital Network
PR Newswire, a unit of United Business Media (LSE: UBM), is making a significant play for the Hispanic media market with the acquisition of…
CMP Acquires Mass Events Labs, Producer Of Tech UnConferences; David Berlind Joins
B2B media firm CMP, a division of United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has acquired Mass Events Labs, a producer of “un-conference”-style tech…
Industry Moves: Steve Weitzner Steps Down As CEO of CMP; Now Leading UBM's International Biz Dev
CMP Technology, one of the biggest tech publishers and part of United Business Media, (LSE: UBM) announced that Steve Weitzner, who had been…
FOBM Pre-Interview: David Levin, CEO, United Business Media
David Levin, CEO of United Business Media, is a featured speaker at our “Future of Business Media” conference in NYC next week. The London-h…
