'Despicable Me 2' "minions" will hijack the Mumsnet homepage and logo for one week from Monday 24 June, marking the first time the site has carried a takeover campaign in its 13-year history.
Jed Glanvill leaves Mindshare UK, Stephen Haines is New York-bound with Facebook and Piers Pottinger moves to Singapore, in this week's round-up of people moves across advertising, marketing, media and PR.
Google has acquired Waze, the community-based traffic navigation app, for a rumoured $1bn to $1.3bn.
London & Partners' application to develop and run the .london domain name has been approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).
Gerry Boyle becomes Asia-Pacific chief at Zenith Optimedia and Asda names Chris McDonough as its marketing director in this week's round-up of people moves across advertising, marketing, media and PR.
Fairphone, the Amsterdam based social enterprise behind the scheme to build and distribute an ethically built smartphone, has reached its pre-sale target of 5,000 orders and will begin distribution in Europe this autumn.
04 Jun 2013
| by Ben Hall
Zynga, the social gaming business behind Farmville, is to lay off 18% of its staff to re-focus on mobile.
Verica Djurdjevic is promoted to managing director at PHD, Nigel Sharrocks is to leave Aegis Media and P&G chief executive Bob McDonald steps down, in this week's round-up of people moves across advertising, marketing, media and PR.
22 May 2013
| by Ben Hall
Live streamed coverage of Thinkbox's 'TV Nation' event, reviewing British life and marketing post-Olympics.
Is Facebook preparing to match the $1bn it paid for Instagram by paying a similar figure for an Israeli mobile start-up called Waze?