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…

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…

Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which recently broke merger talked with United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has confirmed that it received a tentative big approach from a private equity consortium which would value the business at about $6.8 billion, including debt. The bid is a joint one from Providence Equity…

The big B2B merger was not to be…United Business Media (LSE: UBM) and Informa have ended merger talks, the two companies notified today. They said the talks between them remained at a very prelim stage, and never moved beyond it…wonder if the stories about UBM actually buying Informa instead of…

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 $6 billion merger, some more bidders have emerged for Informa: The owners of German publisher Springer Science & Business Media are considering a possible…

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…

A busy day for United Business Media - splitting its CMP tech publishing unit in four and posting 2007 results (operating profit up 11.5 percent on an adjusted basis). UBM CEO David Levin explained breaking CMP apart is all about brand over medium… —Shifting from print: When Levin joined three…

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 companies. The company, which went through a bunch of layoffs and restructuring and then booted its CEO, has now decided to do away with the CMP…

PR Newswire, a unit of United Business Media (LSE: UBM), is making a significant play for the Hispanic media market with the acquisition of sister companies Hispanic PR Wire, LatinClips and Hispanic Digital Network. Hispanic PR Wire is a press release wire, LatinClips is a media monitoring service and Hispanic…

B2B media firm CMP, a division of United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has acquired Mass Events Labs, a producer of “un-conference”-style tech events. Events include Mashup Camp, a community-driven event for web developers. Mass Events Labs will become a part of CMP’s Business Technology Group, which produces such events as…

CMP Technology, one of the biggest tech publishers and part of United Business Media, (LSE: UBM) announced that Steve Weitzner, who had been CEO of the division since October 2005, is stepping down from that post. He will now head CMP Technology’s International M&A and business development efforts. UBM CEO…