It's a familiar story of too many cooks ... In 2000, European mobile phone companies bid for the then next-generation 3G licences.

In the 1920s, the Radio Corporation of America invented the broadcast network, a mass communications medium as broad in scope and reach as the contiguous United States.

Marie arrives home from work. She checks her email on her laptop. She has 12 offers for sexual potency pills, three from music download companies and 58 offers from online casinos. 'Spam' thinks Marie.

When I started my career in marketing with Ogilvy & Mather in the early 1980s, life was slower. Email hadn't yet been developed, so the arrival of the morning's post set the agenda for the day.

Experienced marketers know that there are often tensions in companies between those in the factories who produce, and those in the marketplace who sell.

In November 2005, Jerry Chen bought a minivan.