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Michael Bloomberg is up from four per cent to 19 per cent among Democratic voters and, despite getting a pasting from his rival candidates the other night, looks set to face off against Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Presidential nomination. ...

People talk about a brain drain from advertising and a new one is Andrew Benett, former CEO of Havas Creative Group and before that Arnold, who’s joining Bloomberg Media. Benett (below) will fill the newly created role of global chief ...

It’s been, in his own words, an “annus horribilis” for Maurice Levy and Publicis Groupe in 2014 – the collapse of the merger with Omnicom, poor trading and a sceptical market reaction to his latest wheeze, paying $3.7bn for digital ...

Bloomberg has launched something called Bloomberg Sports and it’s secured quite a PR coup by using ts hyper-clever computers to predict the outcome of the new Premier League season. Here are its top ten with points tallies for top three ...

Here’s a poser for Apple’s agency TBWA. A British judge has ordered the company to take out ads in several UK national papers, including the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Financial Times, saying that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet computers didn’t ...

Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy told his company’s AGM that he was confident that Publicis Groupe would continue to outperform the market in the second half of 2012 despite the financial carnage in the Eurozone (with Spain now heading for ...

Burkina Faso? No, wait, it’s on the tip of my tongue – know that name, it’s been in the news hasn’t it? – Tunisian singer or something … Wrong. It’s a small, landlocked country, dirt-poor, situated in the Upper Volta ...

Bloomberg and its magazine acquisition Business Week have produced their list of America’s most popular brands, based on commercial growth or a surge in popularity (or both) over the past year. • Actress: Sandra Bullock • Athlete (Female): Serena Williams ...

And so does FriendFinder Network, owner of Penthouse which actually offered slightly more than Hugh Hefner’s $207m for the listed publisher. But Hefner, who is 84 and founded the magazine in December 1953, owned a blocking stake in the company. ...