The latest Amazon Kindle e-reader Amazon unveiled two lighter, more advanced versions of the Kindle e-reader today, alongside a new UK ebook store that it claimed will send sales of the device soaring in Britain. Faced with growing competition in the e-reader market, Amazon has redesigned the device and has made it available directly from [...]

Imperial Tobacco’s Rizla rolling paper brand is co-sponsoring this weekend’s Lovebox festival in east London. An Imperial spokesman said: ‘It’s all part of creating brand awareness and it’s entirely legitimate.’ Photograph: Roger Tooth for the Guardian Tobacco companies are using increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques to circumvent the law and promote their brands to young people, [...]

Sony singer Shakira performing Waka Waka with South African band Freshlyground at the World Cup final. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer clearly enjoyed his World Cup experience, despite missing the Spain-Germany semi-final when his private jet, along with several others, was turned away from an overcrowded Durban airport. Stringer’s company had [...]