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Apple, Google, and Amazon are the three most valuable brands in Interbrand’s 2018 Best Global Brands report. Now in its 19th year, the report’s 2018 theme is “Activating Brave.” The top three includes two of the world’s first $1trillion companies, ...

Google and Facebook have profited mightily by being the first companies to achieve direct marketing at scale but life may be about to become more difficult. Despite the various scandals afflicting Facebook in particular and pressure from regulators both companies ...

Amazon passed $2bn in net revenue (profit) for the first time in the second quarter of 2018, boosted by its rapidly growing high margin cloud computing business (is there anything Amazon doesn’t do?) Buried in the numbers is its ad ...

Has Wall Street fallen out of love with Facebook? The social media behemoth’s shares fell 20 per cent yesterday, not so much because it narrowly missed its quarterly earnings target of $13.3bn (posting $13.2bn) or that user numbers slipped back ...

Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes by Strickland Gillilan (1904) Adam Had ‘em It can be said, with relative certainty I suspect, that this is the first time an article around six-second creativity for online video has leaned on twentieth-century ...

We all make our pact with Google, whether we want to or not, and here’s old Big Data trying to seduce corporate big shots into the Google Cloud (and away from Amazon’s) – by predicting their future. It’s an interesting ...

New Yorker writer and author Ken Auletta’s chat to departed WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell at Cannes should be interesting. Even even if he doesn’t delve into the reasons for Sorrell’s shock departure he has an interesting thesis, described here, ...

Here are some supposed highlights from Faceboook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of testimony before the US Congress following the Cambridge Analytica data mis-use revelations (87m users had their information hacked). Not much new here from a contrite Zuckerberg although ...

The Times reckons that internal candidates to succeed Sir Martin Sorrell as CEO of WPP are being interviewed by the board, a board which some reckon contains one or more directors who want rid of the WPP founder. Sorrell (below) ...