B2B publisher UBM is off-loading its UK magazines for farmers and doctors, as it looks to further exit the direct content publishing business in favour of data, marketing and events.

Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper.

Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space…

Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messaging business for $25 million in June 2011, has itself become a takeover target—apparently because it will not be able to make payments on money still owed to…

France’s national La Tribune newspaper said Monday’s edition was its last daily print copy, as its owner’s sale to a regional publisher and an online ad group was announced.

Today, social analytics company and ad network 33across announced the acquisition of Tynt, a sell-side analytics tools company that aggregates data to tell publishers about their audience, protect their content and even leverage search engine optimization to drive traffic.  Read the release.

A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobile ad spend to $2.61 billion, from their previous estimates of $1.8 billion. Why the rise? Google’s “exceptional” mobile advertising performance in mobile search advertising, and more reliable market…

The world’s largest advertising agency has been announcing almost an acquisition a day in the digital and emerging markets fields.

Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how consumer applications are the source of the most action at the moment.

Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…

Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent stake in DTDigital, a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne, Australia. The move is not just another signal of the firm’s growing base of interactive holdings, but one more…

The world’s biggest advertising firm is making yet another acquisition at the intersection of its two targeted growth areas - digital and emerging markets.

Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) has sold off its loss-making New York operation – home to magazines including Guitar World, Revolver and Guitar Aficionado – in a deal worth $3m (£1.9m).

News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.

Management consultancy Deloitte today became the latest company to buy into the app marketplace with the news that it has bought the Seattle-based agency Ubermind, which develops interactive and mobile products for a number of companies, including perhaps most significantly Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The price of the deal is believed…

The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based its independence from iTunes.

UK news publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is continuing to build up its digital marketing business by acquiring Sunderland-based email marketing group Communicator Corp for £8 ($12.47) million.

Already in our headlines today for a hiccup over its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Chrome campaign, Unruly Media, which makes video campaigns designed for social sharing, has announced a $25 (£16.04) million first VC funding round to fund international expansion.

More money for European tech startups: Wroclaw, Poland based mobile games publisher Tequila Mobile has announced a $1.7 round of funding, as well as six million users on its freemium gaming platform.