Farmers Guardian, MusicWeek and TechWeb publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM) flirted with Lloyd’s List publisher Informa for a merger before backing out this summer. I caught up with UBM CEO David Levin, fresh from the stage at our Future Of Business Media conference in New York last week, where he talked to me about the state of the economy, and why he left those merger talks…

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