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Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook have joined forces to unveil a Data Transfer Project, an open source initiative to develop tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another. The…

Twitter has suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June to combat fake news according to the Washington Post. The data was provided to the Washington Post by a person with access to one of Twitter’s “Firehose” products,…

Ford Motor Co. plans to stop selling all sedans in North America and has nearly doubled its cost-cutting target by 2022 from the plan it laid out only six months ago. The automaker said it will either fix or eliminate…

Publicis Groupe has begun 2018 on the front foot after posting a ‘satisfying’ set of results that saw its net revenue rise organically by 1.6% over the first quarter. The glad tidings were drawn from across North…

A much wider awareness and understanding of the range, threat and cost of fraud in business has driven reported economic crime to its highest level recorded in PwC’s bi-annual survey of business crime. The Global Economic Crime and Fraud…

  Two years after being named to run North America at Omnicom Group's DDB Worldwide, Wendy Clark has been promoted to global president and CEO of the agency. Clark succeeds Chuck Brymer, who becomes chairman of DDB add takes on some…