LONDON - Unsolicited emails or 'spam' is causing havoc in US businesses and will soon begin clogging up the email networks of UK businesses, according to a survey by email security company MessageLabs.
LONDON - Internet portal Lycos has appointed New York-based database marketing firm MKTG Services to handle the multimillion-pound task of managing and marketing its permission-based email and postal database worldwide.
LONDON - Marketing support services company Prolog has launched a dedicated call centre division called Prolog Connect.
NEW YORK - General Electric, Microsoft and Wal-Mart are the world's most valuable corporate brands, according to a new study of more than 1,000 brands.
LONDON - A satirical magazine called The Poke is being launched next month at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in an attempt to inject some life back into the UK comedy scene.
LONDON - Victoria Beckham is the latest celebrity to receive the not-so-flattering Schweppes satirical treatment in its series of ads featuring celebrity lookalikes.
LONDON - Atlantis Online, the online casino, is to launch its first advertising campaign as it seeks to reach gamblers who have not traditionally trusted online gaming.
WASHINGTON - Leo Burnett is to be investigated over so-called 'billing irregularities' for its work on the US Army's advertising account, just a week after Ogilvy & Mather looked certain to have lost its grip on the $152m (£96m) US anti-drug campaign.
LONDON - The Football League is poised to begin legal proceedings against the law firm that represented it when it signed its £315m three-year TV rights deal with ITV Digital, which had £178m still to pay when it collapsed earlier this year.
NEW YORK - US television networks are struggling to sell airtime for programmes planned for the anniversary of September 11 to mark the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
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