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Apple cements most valuable brand status as UK's giants slide

Daniel Farey-Jones — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:46:00 GMT

Apple has extended its lead at the top of Millward Brown's annual ranking of the top 100 most valuable global brands, while UK brands including Tesco and O2 have slipped down the table.

Q&A: Tony Wang, general manager Twitter UK

Sarah Shearman — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Tony Wang, who came to the UK a year ago to set up a European sales house to enable Twitter to roll out the long-awaited advertising opportunities on the platform, discusses how brands have responded.

BT's profits boosted by hitting 10m super-fast broadband mark

John Reynolds — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:17:00 GMT

BT has reported a 16% lift in pre-tax profits to £2.42bn in the full year, helped by a 23% year-on-year increase in its pay-TV service numbers and growth in its super-fast broadband offering.

O2 takes aim at PayPal with mobile payments service

Sarah Shearman — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:18:00 GMT

O2, the network provider, has launched its long-anticipated mobile wallet service, which enables users to make simple payments and shop using their mobile device, putting itself in competition with Barclays, Orange and PayPal.

Orange RockCorps gigs suspension hints at demise of mobile brand

Matthew Chapman — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:30:00 GMT

Orange has put its sponsorship of the RockCorps gigs on hold, in a decision that will add to speculation that the mobile brand will be dropped by parent company Everything Everywhere.

Vodafone to buy Cable & Wireless for £1bn

Matthew Chapman — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:55:00 GMT

Vodafone has agreed to buy troubled telecoms company Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) in a deal valued at £1.04bn.

The Revolution Awards 2012 - winners in full

Kim Benjamin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:45:00 GMT

Heineken, Xbox, TBG Digital and Adam & Eve triumphed at the Revolution Awards 2012, held on 20 April at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane.

The truth about youth: Do you know Generation Z?

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Brands targeting young people should avoid the 'cool' trap and focus on trust

HomeServe fined £750,000 by Ofcom for silent calls

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:50:00 GMT

HomeServe, the home insurance and repairs company, has been fined £750,000 by Ofcom for making excessive silent and abandoned calls to UK consumers.

Sony Mobile chief Pierre Perron on reviving the brand

Matthew Chapman — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:30:00 GMT

Sony Mobile's president, North Western Europe, Pierre Perron, is putting speed and focus at the heart of the reborn brand's development following its buyout from Ericsson.