A report from industry organisation Tech Nation had found that R&D spending in the UK is lagging behind competitors, "The Telegraph" reports. However, the research does show there is a healthy flow of VC into tech start-ups.

Channel 4 has picked up a Bafta for breaking the Cambridge Analytica story, "Press Gazette" reports.

Major League Baseball (MLB) is to host a three-day London event at the end of June in the Old Truman Brewery in a bid to win over sports fans in the UK, "Campaign" reveals.

Heineken has launched its first cross-brand zero alcohol campaign to, as "Marketing Week" puts it, "explode the category."

Campaigners are complaining that tobacco companies are getting around advertising bans through sponsoring F1 cars, "The Guardian" writes.

The UK's lead police officer for child protection, Chief Constable Simon Bailey, is calling on people to boycott social media in a move to ensure that the tech giants remove harmful content from their sites, the BBC reports.

Facebook's Head of Global Affairs and former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has countered arguments calling for the the social giant to be broken up, "The Telegraph" reports. He claims that none of the problems people point to, when suggesting the company is too big, would be conquered by splitting the business into pieces.

AOP research has found that ad-blocking rates are falling but because overall traffic is increasing, publisher losses have risen to a median of nearly a million pounds per year, "Mobile Marketing" reports.

Newsquest has turned last year's loss into a GBP213m profit, largely through closing 16 "unviable" free local newspapers, "Press Gazette" reports.

Mauricio Barange's retirement has created the opportunity for Ebiquity to promote Nick Pugh to managing director of UK and Ireland and Laetitia Zinetti to the same position for continental Europe, "Campaign" reveals.