Finance

A rather large cat jumped out of the bag in the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey in London yesterday. Former Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans (left), appearing as a witness for the prosecution, claimed that he had hacked ...

Exactly one year ago I wrote a piece about how WH Smith rips off travellers with their monopoly in airports, train stations and motorway service stations. It provoked quite a lot of comment with complaints about their aggressive pricing. However ...

I see that Telefonica is reviewing its gigantic media account, worth £200m we read. Telefonica, a Spanish-owned mobile company, has had its trials in recent years but owns some good brands, including 02 in the UK. Media is currently with ...

Content marketing platform NewsCred is investing £15m in its new European division, following the recent opening of its London office. The investment has come from Silicon Valley technology investors InterWest Partners. NewsCred’s business comes from marketers licensing web content to ...

You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh – on top of Manchester United’s problems on the field (last night they were dumped out of the League Cup by low-flying Sunderland, largely because the club’s expensive stars don’t know ...

A job at the Daily Telegraph used to be a job for life, even under the volatile ownership of disgraced owner Conrad Black. Not any more though, under the hardly benign rule of the Barclay brothers, property tycoons who live ...

It sometimes looks as though Interpublic has gone to sleep in the acquisition stakes, certainly in comparison to two of its rivals WPP and Publicis Groupe, but today it announced the surprise capture of Profero, one of the few remaining ...

Independent owner Alexander Lebedev, currently completing a community service sentence in Russia for whacking someone on a chat show, is looking for a new investor in his Independent, Independent on Sunday and cut-price 20p i British newspapers according to a ...

We all know that agencies lay off staff when they lose a big account but it’s highly unusual to chop ten per cent of the workforce when one comes up for pitch. But that’s what one-time MDC Partners agency Crispin ...