The BBC has been likened to Google, Starbucks and Amazon by the chairman of the Commons public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge, for using a multimillion-pound tax break scheme to increase its income.

New Zealand Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy is leading a business delegation to Colombo this week to further strengthen trade ties between Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the lead-up to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Citizens Development Business Finance PLC (CDB) outperformed several high profile service brands, winning a coveted Bronze Award at the recently held SLIM Brand Excellence Awards 2014 at the BMICH.

The Commercial Bank Ceylon and Paycorp International (PYCI), a leading provider of enterprise payment processing solutions to banks, corporates and industry specific vertical markets, have formed a strategic alliance to launch ‘PAYCOM,’ Sri Lanka's first Multilingual Mobile POS solution.

Facebook’s advertising revenue has grown by 64 per cent during its third quarter with mobile ads making up 66 per cent of that at $1.95bn.

Brand agency Tayburn has appointed Nadine Pierce to the newly-created role of marketing manager.

A court has fined ad agency Havas Worldwide Kazahkstan 34 million tenge (£116,000) for designing a poster portraying two classical figures engaging in a gay kiss in a scene reminscent of the embrace between the heads of East Germany and the Soviet Union in 1979 (pictured).

Twitter and IBM have announced a new partnership which will see the firms combine their data collection capabilities to provide more insightful marketing information to businesses.

Bags two Golds, one Silver and one Bronze including the coveted Service Brand of the Year.

The Synergy chapter of Business Network International will be launched on Wednesday the 29th of October 2014, from 5 pm to 7 pm at the 4th level of Access Towers, 278, Union Place, Colombo 02.

DFCC Vardhana Bank (DVB), Sri Lanka’s fastest growing commercial bank announces the introduction of the ground-breaking Lanka Money Transfer (LMT) service which will be available within the month of November 2014. This new offering is a remittance service which allows customers, both the sender and receiver to transfer money with ease, using the banks that they trust.