Outlook: Accountancy’s Big Four have the financial clout and the wherewithal to fight their regulator

Burberry’s sales boost due to men

The former Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter was named the next chief executive of the publisher and events group Informa yesterday as Peter Rigby announced he is stepping down in December after 25 years at the top.

Google's stranglehold over the smartphone market in Europe is tightening as the internet giant's Android operating system now has more than a 70 per cent share.

Outlook There was more evidence of the City's disconnect with the wider populace yesterday when institutional investors approved WPP's remuneration report for a year in which it paid chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell £17.6m.

Three-quarters of WPP shareholders believe he is worth every penny. It's how the ad giant can replace him that's worrying many

London's much-criticised natural resources sector came under fire again as nearly 80 per cent of voting investors threw out the remuneration report of the oil explorer Afren and tabled high votes against the re-election of several directors.

He may be an employee but the group is his creation

Nearly as many as one in four shareholders expected to reject £17.6m pay deal

Ivan Menezes celebrated his success landing the job as boss of the world's biggest drinks company, Diageo, with a glass of Johnnie Walker Blue Label whisky on the flight from London to New York. The promotion of the chief operating officer and company insider didn't scare the horses in the City as the shares barely twitched. But as he sipped the £130 liquor on the plane Mr Menezes might well have pondered the shoes he will have to fill when Paul Walsh, the FTSE 100's third longest-serving boss, departs.

The advertising giant WPP is hoping it can head off another investor revolt over its chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell's pay by cutting his base salary and potential bonus, even as it was revealed that his package soared by nearly half to £17.6m last year.

Outlook Is your glass half full or half empty? In the marketing, PR and advertising industries, it's not just half full. It's wow look at this marvellous, mega, super-duper drinky thing I've still got loads of. Half full? Half full? It's doubleplus half full, that's what it is. And don't get me started on how cool that dinky little cocktail brolly is!

2.5% growth short of expectations

Coal use hindering reduction of CO2