Corporate News

UBM plc announces that it has sold its UK agriculture and medical general practitioner portfolios – including the Farmers Guardian and Pulse titles – to the founders of Briefing Media Ltd for a total cash consideration of £10.0m*.  The new business will be known as Briefing Media Group and is led by the experienced management team of Neil Thackray and Rory Brown. It is funded by GCP Capital Partners, a mid-market private equity fund.

Read more: UBM Plc Disposes of UK Titles for £10.0m

Following a six-month period during which all facets of its operations and activities were assessed and reviewed in detail, GITA has streamlined its website and completely restructured the association’s  membership categories.

Read more: GITA Revamps Web Presence, Membership Structure

Remember when you were a freshman in high school, and a city planner asked you to redesign your hometown? No? You must not have taken pre-AP Human Geography with Jamison Warren. For the past few years, students in Warren’s class in the Academy for Global Studies at Austin High School have been redesigning sites including Highland Mall, the Austin State School and the Brackenridge Tract. Using giant maps, pencil, and concepts from class, they’ve been envisioning a walkable and sustainable future for Austin. Read More

 Large portions of the western half of the U.S. do not have access to 3G or faster mobile broadband service, according to a new map released by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The map, released by the FCC Friday, shows large parts of Alaska, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Texas and Montana as not having 3G or faster mobile broadband service. The map shows nearly all states have some areas uncovered by 3G service, including parts of New York and Pennsylvania and large parts of West Virginia and Maine. Read More