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Google’s attempt to break into another business – gaming – has not met with unalloyed praise on either side of the Atlantic: its Stadia ‘cloud gaming platform’ is, so fans say, what everyone wants – you don’t need a console ...

Interbrand has revealed its Best Global Brands for the 20th year with (somewhat depressingly) Apple ($234bn, below), Google and Amazon occupying their customary top three places. Others in the top ten are Microsoft at 4, Coca-Cola 5, Samsung 6, Toyota ...

Facebook is running a nice ‘Privacy is Personal’ campaign by Possible, good because it’s clear, understated and human. Privacy issues continue to dog Facebook – and rivals like Twitter and Google – and will no doubt continue to do so ...

Whatever you say about Google – and a lot’s been said recently, not always to its advantage – it’s inescapably useful. So now the tech giant, under fire from all sides seemingly, is going back to basics with its first ...

Ad Age has confirmed what we all suspected, that the so-called FANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Neflix and Google) are increasingly driving advertising, in the US in this case but the same is true around the world surely. Much of the ...

Christophe Guilluy’s recently published English-language version of “Twilight of the Elites” focuses on nascent tensions between France’s metropolitan ruling class and the disenfranchised people who live in the countryside outside of France’s “citadels” of power and economic influence. Originally published ...

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 ...