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Joy Bhattacharya is managing director of Accenture Interactive, the world’s biggest and fastest-growing digital agency. Among other things he is responsible for design and innovation practice Fjord’s general management and business growth and leads Accenture Interactive’s business in the UK. ...

We haven’t heard very much from Ajaz Ahmed’s AKQA since WPP bought it for £348m back in 2012. There’ve been a few departures, as you’d expect, but nothing too dramatic. Now AKQA may be spreading its wings a bit, possibly ...

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 ...

Wayne Deakin is ECD of Engine Group and also the UK marcom company’s digital agency Jam. An Australian, Deakin began his career at BCM Partnership and then worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, McCann, Euro RSCG and Jung von ...

Hello People co-funder Hugh Baillie is leaving to be CEO of Grand Union, one of the agencies in the French-owned FullSIX International digital empire. He will also head up FullSIX in the UK. Baillie (left), a former CEO of Ogilvy ...

Ogilvy & Mather agrees to acquire majority stake in PennyWise, a leading digital technology and production company in India WPP agency Ogilvy is buying a majority stake in PennyWise Solutions, which it says is one India’s leading digital technology and ...

WPP is still the biggest western marcoms company operating in the China region, even after the PubliCom merger, and boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) is still shopping busily for assets. It has just acquired a majority stake in yet another ...

WPP’s $540m purchase of AKQA seems to have put the (big) cats firmly among the digital pigeons with rumours abounding that Amsterdam-based LBi, slightly bigger than AKQA with $250m revenue and $22m net profit, is also looking for a buyer. ...

And then there was – nobody of much note (LBi possibly excepted) among digital agencies and Wieden+Kennedy and Mother holding out against the mighty wallets of the big marcoms companies in the creative sector. AKQA, the world’s biggest digital agency, ...