BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German media group Axel Springer said Thursday its digital publishing empire would bring further increases in sales and profits in 2017, after meeting its forecasts last year. The publisher achieved a net profit of 450 million euros ($474 million) in 2016, up almost 50 percent on the previous year’s figure. Operating, or underlying, profit increased 6.5 percent to 595 million euros, on revenues around the same level as in 2015 at […]