Finance
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Microsoft’s bizarre decision to review ads before a new CEO comes is manna from heaven for WPP
Microsoft, one of the world’s biggest advertisers with a spend comfortably ahead of $1bn, is about to review everything, according…
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WPP tightens grip on global Jaguar Land Rover
Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover is selling container loads of cars to Americans, Chinese and just about anybody outside cash-strapped Europe;…
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What really happened in BETC London bust-up
My spies tell me that, rather than BETC London CEO Matthew Charlton and ECD Neil Dawson walking out a deux…
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David Jones exit puts Havas into takeover play
Is Havas more or less likely to be sold now that CEO David Jones has decided to step down to…
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Jones quits Havas as Bollores take over top jobs
It was pretty clear last June that David Jones’s time as CEO of Havas was up, when majority shareholder Vincent…
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Marissa Mayer unveils new Yahoo line-up at CES
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (left) has announced some new goodies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. These include:…
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Lindsay Pattison: media is becoming more technological but we still need the right fusion of maths and magic
Another year begins, and I reflect on 2013 as the year that technology brought mass disruption to our industry. At…
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Will Christmas update show that Marks & Spencer’s brand management problems haven’t gone away?
A number of commentators in the broadsheet business press are predicting dire news from Marks & spencer when it releases…
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WPP’s GroupM launches new media unit Modi – but is it new or the same old (new) ‘Math Men’ stuff?
WPP’s GroupM media business, which is making a fairly good stab at taking over the media world, has announced another…
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