Will 2025 be the M&A rebound?
In the US, investment bankers are predicting a big year in M&A. Stockmarkets are near all-time highs with…
Major B2B conference for London in 2025
Flashes & Flames this week announces its “Monetising B2B Information and Events” conference in London on 20 May 2025.…
Trousdale quietly makes it work
Patrick Trousdale, the founder of The Daily Upside, really is a different kind of media entrepreneur. For one,…
Will Montgomery buy the Telegraph?
David Montgomery, the veteran UK newspaper executive who is losing control of his listed local news group National…
Mark Allen saves Estates Gazette
The £70mn-revenue Mark Allen Group (MAG), of the UK, is set to acquire the B2B magazine long known…
2024: What next for Condé Nast?
This has been a big year for the Newhouse family whose US-based Advance group reportedly made a cool…
The Year in Media 2024: 30 deepdives from Flashes & Flames
For your reading before, during or after the holiday season, we present The Year in Media 2024, our…
How a legendary B2B brand just died
In an era of diversifying B2B brands, UK media people were stunned by the announcement last week that…
Centaur Media breakup
This week's departure of Swag Mukerji, the CEO of Centaur Media for the past eight years, signals the…
Informa on Nasdaq. What’s next?
Informa this week completed its acquisition of a 57% shareholding in the Nasdaq-listed TechTarget. The deal involved the…