After offloading many titles over the last year, Variety and Farmers Weekly publisher Reed Business Information returned to revenue growth in the first three months of 2011, parent Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) says in an interim management statement for the period.

Right now, almost all United Business Media’s magazine websites are free. And, although the B2B publisher wants to extract more money from them, there is no one-size, group-wide lurch to paid, as there has been at counterparts like Emap.

United Business Media (LSE: UBM) CEO David Levin has taken many publishers to task for trying to shoehorn their existing publications in to iPad.

What do you do when the world turns upside-down? Find a flat surface and face in a different direction. David Levin, CEO of the specialist publisher of titles like Information Week, EE Times, Music Week and Farmers’ Guardian - talks with paidContent:UK about how United Business Media is re-inventing its…

PRNewswire operator United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is making its umpteenth acquisition of the year - a subscription business leads service, Lead-In Research.

Yet another acquisition from United Business Media (LSE: UBM). This time, it’s buying Hors Antenne, an operator of a French-language database of 500,000 opinion formers. UBM, run by CEO David Levin (pictured), says the service - which lists journalists, bloggers, political and financial stakeholders, businessfolk and analysts in France, Belgium…

Acquisition-prone United Business Media (LSE: UBM) says it is buying Canon Communications, a company which operates manufacturing and medical tradeshows and related media, for $287 million.

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 paper industry.

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 market. Business publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM) says it’s buying Astound, a virtual careers fair company whose Milicruit recruitment service puts job-seeking troops in a…

United Business Media (LSE: UBM) is buying a corporate webcasting firm to put together with its PR Newswire. Hong Kong-based Corporate360 facilitates webcasting, event management, transcription and translation for events like investor relations meetings. The acquisition is an initial $350,000 in cash, with up to a further $1 million possible…

Acquisition-prone B2B publisher and conference organiser United Business Media (LSE: UBM) says it’s buying SharedVue, a provider of web-based marketing tools, to add to its Everything Channel technology sales division. No acquisition price is disclosed, but David Levin’s UBM, in the announcement, says “Raleigh, California”-based SharedVue (that’s Raleigh, North Carolina,…

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 that”. That’s what CEO David Levin’s B2B publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is saying - it’s buying Game Advertising Online…

Could it be that the recession hasn’t yet caught up with some B2B publishers? United Business Media (LSE: UBM) today announced improved revenue and profits for the year to 31 December 2008, a dividend 10 percent higher and “satisfactory and resilient trading” for November, December and January. That’s in stark…

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 month’s full-year earnings it would have shed 300 staff in the second half of the year, but today’s preliminary earnings statement ahead of its upcoming…

Web 2.0 Expo conference operator United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) says its Music Week publisher CMPi and its PRNewswire unit will post lower profits than last year, in the 12 months to October - due to the slowing UK economy, investment in new products and the loss of US…

The “severe downturn” in the construction industry has hit B2B magazine publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM), prompting redundancy talks with staff in its built environment division that could see 47 employees go. Guardian.co.uk reports that the cuts will come from Building, Property Week, and architecture magazine BD as the…

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…

United Business Media and Informa, two of the biggest B2B media companies, are in talks for a merger, the two companies said over the weekend after news of the talks leaked. There is no certainty the deal will happen at this stage. Informa has a market value of 1.64 billion…

B2B publisher and event organiser United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is quitting the UK for Ireland in a move designed to reduce its tax burden. As FT.com notes, UBM last year paid 17 percent tax (£21.5 million). In a UBM statement: “The UK tax system imposes tax on all…