08 Apr 2011
| by Mark Banham
This week Out and about offers an IPA special at the IPA Member's Lunch at The Savoy Hotel.
Less than 1% of US internet users have opted out from behavioural advertising since the rollout of the online ad industry's new opt-out page and icon-based information regime, according to the IAB US's key legal expert.
Microsoft has launched its first app for the iPad, for its search engine Bing, following reports of a delay to the roll out of Windows 8.
08 Apr 2011
| by Staff
A Government spokesman has said it would be "ludicrous" to call its new digital chief, who will be paid £142,000 a year, a Twitter Tsar.
Birmingham-based agency S&X has been appointed as UK PR agency by global athletic footwear and apparel brand New Balance.
The London Evening Standard has revamped its ES Magazine to feature more British cover stars, a resurrected Diary column, themed issues, and a re-designed horizontal masthead.
News International, owner of the News of the World, has admitted liability and is to offer an unreserved apology and damages to some of those bringing cases against it over the phone-hacking scandal.
Radioplayer's decision to launch the UK service last week at the lofty Paramount Club perched above London aptly reflects the high hopes for the digital innovation.
08 Apr 2011
| by Ed Owen
Marks & Spencer has poached Morrisons executive Christopher Taylor to head up its Simply Food stores and join his former boss Marc Bolland.
Midland News Association (MNA), the publisher of Wolverhampton's Express & Star, the country's biggest paid-for regional daily, is set to axe around 90 staff.