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Heaven knows what Google is worried about but the sudden decision to boot CEO Eric Schmidt upstairs to executive chairman and replace him with founder Larry Page (pictured) does not suggest a company at ease with itself or its prospects. ...

It’s been a quiet 12 months or so for AMV BBDO, the UK’s biggest agency, on the new business front but it’s broken that rather depressing pattern with Research in Motion’s $200m global BlackBerry account. Interestingly it’s sharing creative duties ...

Which is a great idea, the company has clearly realised that the world is sceptical, to put it mildly, about its ever more ornate razors and even more ornate prices. Gillette products these days are so expensive that supermarkets have ...

The IPA has just produced a report on diversity in UK ad agencies and, surprise, surprise, there isn’t much. Age-wise just 5.3 per cent of those working in the ad industry are aged 50 or over and 13.5 per cent ...

Yahoo may have lost the search battle resoundingly to Google but it’s still amazingly popular, particularly in the US, with a decent mixture of entertainment and information. This is its new campaign for Yahoo Mail in the US by production ...

Troubles over money that is as a new lower fees regime in the relationship between Interpublic’s Initiative Media and giant US retailer Home Depot seems to have led to the abrupt switch of its media account to currently all-conquering Carat. ...

The business/political world is still fretting about the banking system and sovereign debt in Europe (don’t worry, China will buy it all) but across the business spectrum miners, oil and telecoms companies are doing deals all over the place. Apple ...

It’s tempting to see this as part of a trend at WPP following the early exit so far this year of Paul Taaffe from Hill & Knowlton and Doug Checkeris from Mediacom USA but Kinetic chairman Eric Newnham’s decision to ...

And Nigella and Delia, but at least the gals stick to cooking on their programmes. Sales of ‘sustainable’ fish are going through the roof at Sainsbury’s and other supermarkets following Channel 4’s Fish Fight series fronted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, my ...