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Is another dotcom crash on the way? Shares in recently listed Baidu and Pinterest both plummeted yesterday, China’s Baidu after it posted its first loss as ad sales slowed and Pinterest because it lost more than expected. Uber’s float was ...

Timing is all, as they say, and just as WPP has announced some pretty grim first quarter trading numbers former CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has chosen to announce two new acquisitions: “food and liquids studio” Caramel Pictures and ...

Recently, in a packed-out room at Advertising Week Europe, Sir Martin Sorrell announced S4 Capital’s plans to go ‘back to the 1990s’ and reunite media with creative. Brainlab’s founder, Dan Gilbert, is making similar noises. His plan to build the ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has released its first full year results, for 2018, which appear to show the new entity is motoring nicely. S4 includes Dutch (now international) production company MediaMonks, acquired in July last year, and programmatic media ...

It’s the rich wot gets the pleasure, it’s the poor…or, perhaps, having your cake and eating it. The latter was Boris Johnson about the Brexit negotiations (he wasn’t right about that either) but it could have been departed WPP founder ...

Sir Martin Sorrell (below) has agreed to pay back $200,000 for expenses he charged WPP, mainly incurred in New York and on ski-ing trips according to the Wall Street Journal. There’s more to come it seems as WPP goes through ...

WPP has hired former Digitas exec Annette Male (left) as its new Wunderman Thompson APAC region boss, thereby placing three women at the top of the newly-minted agency. She joins Global CEO Mel Edwards and global chairman Tamara Ingram. Handily ...

If there’s a big pow-wow going Sir Martin Sorrell will be there (CES this week, Davos to come – for all we know he’ll be providing the Super Bowl half-time entertainment.) Here he is with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin who’s gamely ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s latest acquisition for S4 Capital programmatic media company MighyHive has won Cheddar in the US, described as a “post cable networks” company. Cheddar specialises in OTT (over the top) video and currently runs two live channels – ...