What happens when you let engineers run marketing? A nation left utterly confused by your tech-babble, writes Dominic Mills. Plus: a declaration of interests for all future comment on WPP…
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Lawyers have written to the former WPP boss to warn him that winning a MediaMonks bid with his new venture S4 may put him in breach of contract.
