Darin Brown of WPP agency POSSIBLE on digital-focused advertising and the rise of gamification September 14, 2014 WPP has been rapidly building up its digital presence in recent years, partly by acquiring smaller agencies worldwide and folding them into POSSIBLE. Darin Brown, POSSIBLE’s Europe, Middle East and Africa chief executive, talks to City A.M. about creating digital-focused advertising, and why brands are increasingly looking at interactive campaigns. You’ve worked on both [...]
Apple CEO Tim Cook explains Beats Electronics purchase in wide-ranging interview September 14, 2014 Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook has said it was the strength of Beats Electronics' subscription service that persuaded him to sign off on the $3bn (£1.8bn) purchase of the company earlier this year. In a wide-ranging interview with Charlie Rose on American network PBS last week, Cook touched on a number of topics ranging [...]
Tour of Britain 2014 in pictures: Wiggins wins time trial in London as Cavendish narrowly misses out on final stage victory September 14, 2014 British cycling fans made the most of some sumptuous September weather to see a number of the sport's biggest names race through London on the final day of the Tour of Britain. Bradley Wiggins won Sunday's individual time trial, however Mark Cavendish narrowly missed out on joining his compatriot as a stage winner in the [...]
Scottish independence: Large crowds protest against perceived BBC and Nick Robinson bias September 14, 2014 At least 1,000 people have protested outside the BBC’s Glasgow HQ against the broadcaster’s perceived bias in the Scottish independence referendum. Pro-independence supporters, many of whom were waving the flag of Scotland and holding anti-BBC placards, gathered outside the BBC Scotland building in the Pacific Quay area at around 2pm this afternoon. The [...]
Joseph Stiglitz on Scottish independence: No basis for “fear-mongering” and currency a “non- issue” September 14, 2014 The latest esteemed economist to share their thoughts on the Scottish independence debate has called some of the talk around Scotland’s post-independence economy “fear mongering” and the hot-button issue of currency a “non-issue”. Nobel-Prize winning Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz is the latest economist to wade into the Scottish independence debate in a newspaper column [...]
How will Scotland vote? Independence polls say it’s too close to call with four days to go September 14, 2014 A week after the Yes campaign broke through to take the lead for the first time in Scottish independence polls, both sides of the campaign have spent the week rallying votes and courting public opinion. On the last Sunday before Scots cast their vote, where do the latest polls stand? Of three polls for today’s [...]
Scottish independence: BT, TalkTalk, EE, Telefonica, Vodafone and Three warn of increased costs if Scots vote Yes September 14, 2014 Six of Britain's leading telecoms companies are the latest to warn of potential price rises if Scotland votes Yes to independence. The chiefs of BT, TalkTalk, EE, Telefonica UK, Vodafone UK and Three UK have issued a joint letter warning that the uncertainty around regulation and spectrum allocation, which mobile networks use to operate, could [...]
No campaign stretches lead to 8 points ahead of Scottish independence referendum – poll September 13, 2014 A new poll by Survation has given the No camp a seven point lead, showing 49 per cent to 42 per cent disparity. Excluding don't knows, the gap stretches to eight percentage points in favour of No: 54 per cent plays 46 per cent. Any single poll can be incredibly misleading when taken in isolation, [...]
Apple reports record demand for iPhone 6 as share price levels September 13, 2014 After what must have seemed an interminable wait for the Apple fangirls and boys, the pre-order drama was over in hours. Apple says that pre-orders of the largest of its two new handsets, the iPhone 6 plus, broke records; selling out quickly and crashing websites. With iPhones roaring off the shelves, it would perhaps seem [...]
Ebola outbreak: Black market trade in blood serum worries World Health Organisation September 13, 2014 As the Ebola outbreak continues and reports emerge of hospitals turning suffering people away, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed the black market trade in treatments produced from survivors' blood. As this fantastic map from the BBC shows, almost every region in Sierra Leone and Liberia has reported deaths, and the disease is continuing [...]