Magazine world view: Acquisitions; mergers; jokes;spying

• Ink acquires airline magazines from Ultramarine (Brand Republic)
• Royal Mail national strike coming as soon as October 19 (Brand Republic)
• Bonnier buys Conceive magazine (Audience Development)
• Reed Business Information sues McGraw-Hill over ‘corporate espionage’ (Folio:)
• Can you take a joke? (Utne Media blog)
• Interweave merges two beading, jewelry magazines (Folio:)
• How web analytics influence content production (Folio:)
• Will Guardian media section go online only? (Jon Slattery blog)