05 Nov 2008
| by Stephen Foster
LONDON - Stock markets around the world anticipated and then responded to Barack Obama's election as US president with something approaching euphoria.
28 Oct 2008
| by Raymond Snoddy
Senator Barack Obama, the highest-spending advertiser in US political history, is taking the ultimate risk with viewer patience on Wednesday by running 30-minute ads across the major networks, spending perhaps as much as $10m (£5.8m) in the process.
LONDON - The notoriously secretive Mars, Inc has fastidiously kept its executives out of the limelight until very recently, preferring to let its global food brands do the talking.
03 Oct 2008
| by Sarah Crawley-Boevey
LONDON - Gordon Brown's chief spokesman, Damien McBride, has become the latest casualty of the Government's communications team in today's Cabinet re-shuffle.
01 Sep 2008
| by Stephen Foster
LONDON - The Monetary Policy Committee is meeting to ponder rate cuts this week but will they bow to pressure. Stephen Foster reports on the on-going TNS saga and what Microsoft is up to.
28 Jul 2008
| by Stephen Foster
The biggest noise at Westminster this week was the sound of cabinet ministers rushing off on holiday before someone from the Today programme dragged them on the air to ask if they still supported Gordon Brown.
19 May 2008
| by Stephen Foster
Apparently David Muir, the WPP man brought in by Downing Street policy supremo Stephen Carter, has been amusing himself by conducting focus groups, asking the warm white wine and Twiglets brigade what David Cameron reminds them of.
16 May 2008
| by Staff
NEW YORK - Sportswear brand Reebok has been prompted to rethink its promotional drive at this summer's Beijing Olympics, after it hit a number of 'practical and logistical' hurdles involving the local authorities.
21 Apr 2008
| by Stephen Foster
Not a lot, on the surface of things, and events and the media are conspiring against him. The latest misfortune to hit poor old Gordon is the strike in his own Scottish backyard at the Grangemouth refinery.