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India Press Release (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
/India PRwire/ - UBM India and TechInsights, divisions of United Business Media, LLC, unveiled the second phase of the series of Embedded Systems Conference in Pune today. In keeping with ESC’s global mandate of being the platform of choice for highlighting the innovations and technologies of the embedded design community, this year ESC India has expanded to three other locations, including Pune....
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
CA's Smart Enterprise and Everything Channel's Virtual Trade Show Win
MANHASSET, N.Y., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Business
Media LLC (UBM) () today announced it received
two min's Integrated Marketing Awards in the Custom Publication and Online
Event categories. The Integrated Marketing Awards, presented by min's
Magazine, salute outstanding campaigns, ongoing programs and innovative
people...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
'Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality' Recognition Fifth Consecutive Year
MANHASSET, N.Y., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Business
Media LLC (UBM) today announced that it has earned the 'Best Places to Work
for GLBT Equality' Seal from The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation
(), the educational arm of the nation's largest advocacy
group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT)...
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Industry Analyst Reporter News (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
United Business Media announced that it has acquired Pyramid Research from its shareholders on behalf of its TechWeb business for a total cash consideration of $8 million. Pyramid's services are highly complementary to those of Heavy Reading, TechWeb's existing telecoms industry market research unit.
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ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
TechWeb, one of four divisions of U.K.-based United Business Media, is expanding its reach into the $900 billion telecom market. TechWeb’s Light Reading Communications Network has acquired Pyramid Research, which analyzes and forecasts demand for communications and media services, for $8 million. Pyramid will be integrated with Heavy Reading, the market research arm of the [...]
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
United Business Media ( LSE: UBM ) is buying Cambridge, Massachusetts, telecoms research outfit Pyramid Research for $8 million to put with its TechWeb business. Pyramid takes quantitative research from 70 countries and packages its research for carriers and others in the telco chain, most notably those in emerging markets. UBM said Pyramid would complement its existing Heavy Reading site, another...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
B2B publisher Informa now has received a fresh takeover approach - from a second private equity consortium - after an initial offer from United Business Media ( LSE: UBM ) paved the way for an earlier offer from a trio of PE groups. FT.com says the Dubai World Trade Center fund has joined Blackstone and others for the new approach, but Hellman & Friedman has reportedly pulled out of the earlier approach,...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
United Business Media beat forecasts to turn in first-half profits up by 17pc at £76m, despite restructuring its flagship PR Newswire service which led to the loss of major customers and market share in North America.
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Financial Skeptic (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
United Business Media (UBM) the b2b information company that is not owned by Warren Buffet (He bought Business Wire) announced business results which should be very encouraging to investors. Dividend and EPS are up 15% on an increase in Revenues of approximately 10%. Sounds good. It would appear that the business model is levered so that incremental revenues fall to profits faster than to expenses....
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Publisher and events organiser United Business Media beat market expectations with an 11 percent rise in first-half operating profit and said it was on track for the year as restructuring progressed well.
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - British publisher and events organiser United Business Media Ltd beat market expectations with an 11 percent rise in first-half operating profit and said it was on track for the year as restructuring progressed well.
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Business publisher and event organiser United Business Media ( LSE: UBM ), which has aborted its courtship of Informa , says its decision to break tech publisher CMP in four has been proved right. The new-look tech business - comprising Think Services, TechInsights, TechWeb and Everything Channel - says it saw 10.9 percent better revenues of £97.3 million in the six months to June 30. But the small...
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FT.com (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
United Business Media, the events and publishing group behind PR Newswire, has made a strong start to the year, with double-digit increases in key categories of the interim results for the six months to June
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TradenFairs (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
(Bloomberg) -- United Business Media Plc , the publisher of Information Week and owner of PR Newswire, said first-half profit rose 20 percent, buoyed by the expansion of its exhibitions, tradeshows and data distribution businesses. Net income climbed to 60.5 million pounds ($121 million) from 50.6 million pounds a year earlier, the London-based company said today in a statement. Sales gained 10 percent...
