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February 15 2021, 12:41 pm | BY Ricki Green | No Comments Spark has launched a new campaign for the America’s Cup entitled ‘Detail is Everything’, created in collaboration with Colenso BBDO. The campaign shows the importance of focusing on the detail.   Spark’s 5G coverage on the course gave Emirates Team New Zealand one of the most precious commodities in the America’s Cup – time. Engineers were able to make design improvements far quicker thanks to 5G, which enabled the te...

Popular Dumfries pastor ties the knot with his new wife after finding love in lockdown Pastor Sandy Jamieson and Marita Barr said "I do" at Kinmount House near Annan Sandy Jamieson and Marita Barr were married at Kinmount. Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll in...

Colenso BBDO managing director Scott Coldham departs after 15 years January 22, 2021 5:03 Scott Coldham has announced his departure from New Zealand agency Colenso BBDO having spent 15 years with the business, most recently as managing director. He spent the last five years in that position and will now take on the role of chief marketing officer with tech company Whop Around and menswear brand Asuwere. L-R: Levi Slavin, Scott Coldham & Nick Worthington In Coldham’s time at the helm of Colen...

January 22 2021, 12:53 pm | BY Lynchy | 1 Comment After 15 years with Colenso BBDO, five as its managing director, Scott Coldham has decided to leave the agency to take on a new set of opportunities as chief marketing officer with NZ technology company Whip Around and local menswear brand Asuwere.   Coldham (above centre) has led Colenso BBDO since 2015 and, together with chief creative officer Levi Slavin (above left) and creative chairman Nick Worthington (above right), has helped bui...

The bill, introduced on Jan. 5 and passed during the closing hours of the lame duck session – the Senate got a revised version at 3 a.m. on the final day and sent it to the House two hours later – was one of the last pieces of legislation to pass the General Assembly before adjournment last week. Supporters say that the 764-page bill sent to the governor will make police more accountable while putting poor defendants on an equal footing with accused criminals who have sufficient cas...

The gunman in a fatal shooting at Comer Cox Park in Springfield in 2017 pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional murder in Sangamon County Court on Wednesday. Rashod D. Postlewaite, 21, was sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections by Circuit Judge Ryan Cadagin. Postlewaite was one of four men charged with the murder of Andre Booker III on May 31, 2017, while the 19-year-old Booker was playing basketball at the east-side park. Based on police statements at the time, B...

Enterprise tech startups among big winners in recent VC deals Dan Wright, president and chief operating officer at DataRobot Inc. (DATAROBOT INC.) Sara Castellanos , The Wall Street Journal US internet sector landed some $15 billion in funding in the fourth quarter, spurred in part by pandemic’s impact on digital-focused initiatives Share Via Read Full Story Startups that sell critical cloud-based business software proved to be among the winners of 2020’s venture-capital deals. U.S.-based...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Are you a Stockton business owner struggling to pay rent? This new ordinance may help you [The Record, Stockton, Calif] Stockton businesses that can’t pay their rent due to financial hardships caused by COVID-19 are getting a reprieve. The Stockton City Council voted unanimously Tuesday at its first meeting of the year to implement a temporary citywide ban on commercial evictions for non-residential tenants that can provide landlords with documentation their busin...

Johnson & Johnson faces lag in Covid-19 vaccine production, NYT reports From CNN Healths Jacqueline Howard An investigational pharmacy technician holds a dose of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine before it is administered in a clinical trial in Aurora, Colorado, on December 15, 2020. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images The production pace of the Covid-19 vaccine being developed by drugmaker Johnson & Johnsons subsidiary Janssen appears to be behind schedule. The New York Times reported on Wednesd...

12:27 p.m. ET, January 13, 2021 Reasons to be cheerful: Vaccines expert explains why he thinks US can stop spread of virus by June From CNN Health’s Naomi Thomas A health care worker administers a Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Pompano Beach, Florida, on January 6. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Even as the United States broke a record for the number of Covid-19 deaths reported in a single day, Dr. Paul Offit told CNN’s New Day there were several reasons to be hopeful that the coronavirus si...