The summer is often quieter for many marketers, so it’s the ideal time to catch up on essential reading. Marketers from Direct Line Group, Zoopla and Nationwide give their recommendations.

Sentencing proceedings of Cayman Marl Road administrator Sandra Teresa Hill began in Grand Court Thursday, with the prosecution calling for prison time and restricting her internet usage.

At first blush, it looks very much like the usual tech and intellectual property fight. The Russians are involved. But this time it is a Russian-owned firm that says it has been done wrong by Silicon Valley. Moscow-developed software was supposedly acquired in a $670 million U.S. acquisition last year. Lawsuits are flying in California. […]