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Chicago-based private equity firm Lake Capital is buying Peter Scott’s Engine Group; the company that owns WCRS, US-based digital agency Deep Focus and social media agency Jam among others. The price is said to be £100m. Lake Capital is buying ...

The date of the Scottish referendum to decide whether Caledonia remains part of the UK (to which it was welded in 1707, without the whole-hearted agreement of many Scots) is September 18. And lots of UK business people (many based ...

The pace of innovation and development in marketing technology over the past year has been staggering. We’ve witnessed the proliferation of affordable 3D printing, Oculus Rift bringing virtual reality to the verge of the mainstream and Google Glass (below) as ...

My friend Martin Hayman sends me this glorious campaign, ‘Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables,’ from the Intermarché supermarket chain. I shall forward it to incoming Tesco CEO Dave Lewis, who will – at a stroke – rescue the flagging giant, become ...

Just in Brazil so far, but the news will be greeted warily by existing pay-TV companies such as Britain’s BSkyB and warmly by the world’s bigger football clubs. Apple TV, hitherto a set-top box business (albeit one boasting a $1bn ...

Half the world says the future is ‘content,’ the other half that it’s video. In reality the two seem to mean the same thing. And it’s opening the doors of adland to some new-style agencies. One such is LA-based BLT+, ...

Mr Grey is the male lead (as opposed to the one on a lead) in the eagerly-awaited new movie 50 Shades Of Grey, an S&M tale I’m told. And he has his own swish Manhattan company, which could easily be ...

This one comes courtesy of Adweek via my friend George Parker who has renamed the comestible in this Carl’s Junior ad the ‘Fellatio Burger.’ Put that man in charge of rebranding McDonald’s! So back in 2006 we had Paris Hilton ...

The heat has just been turned up a few notches on incoming Tesco CEO Dave Lewis with the announcement that former Tesco finance director Andrew Higginson (left) is to be the next chairman of rival Morrisons. Morrisons CEO Dalton Philips ...

The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at the City of London Police has begun replacing advertising on copyright infringing websites with official force banners, warning the user that the site is currently under criminal investigation. Working with content verification ...