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In the wake of the disastrous Publicis-Omnicom affair, will the ad industry’s merger eco-system evolve? It’s already under-way, writes Dominic Mills.

Next month, the corporation is expected to announce that it will cut between 475 and 500 jobs from its news division, with a further 75 to 85 going from its UK radio operation.

Future publishing is to sell its sports and craft portfolio to Immediate Media for a total consideration of up to £24 million. The move will see Future cut around 170 jobs in the UK and a further 40 in the US.

In today’s connected world good ideas can come from anybody, anywhere – so it’s time big companies took some risks and relinquished control of new product development to outsiders, argues Dominic Mills.

In this week’s round-up of everything mobile, Simon Andrews looks at the latest news from Google and Facebook, the continuing frustrations for legacy media and takes a look at some great new native advertising from Wired…

BT is unable to protect its innovation and act aggressively in the TV market after outsourcing technological innovation to YouView, industry has heard.

Following a wave of acquisitions and consolidation in the television market, the question left hanging in the air is whether ITV could itself become a takeover target. By Raymond Snoddy.

For the year ending 30 April 2014, ITV’s share of viewing, based on Barb data, dropped from 23.4% in 2013, to 21.6% this year – a percentage change of 7.69%.

It has been widely reported that Yahoo, which has purchased around 40 start-ups in the last two years, will shut the app down entirely so the Blink team can work on Yahoo products.

We have to try anything to make publishing pay – except putting the bean counters in charge, says Ed Owen, editor of the Global Academy of Digital Marketing.