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LONDON – Swedish blog search engine Twingly has launched a microblog search service that scours keywords in websites such as Twitter and Jaiku.

LONDON – Specsavers is turning to radio during the credit crunch to promote its contact lens sale.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — "There has never been a time in the history of the United States when we've seen a destruction of credit on the magnitude we've had in the last 12 months," said Carl Steidtmann. The chief economist for consumer business at Deloitte Research was speaking at the National Retail Federation Convention last week. His message about the "de-leveraged consumer" and the future of marketing was not an upbeat one.

LONDON – Heston Blumenthal’s ‘Big Chef Takes On Little Chef’, the first programme in Channel 4’s much-trailed Great British Food Fight season, pulled in 3.2m viewers last night, according to unofficial overnight figures.

LONDON – Tennis stars Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Andy Murray are Titans playing among the stars in the latest ATP World Tour marketing campaign, created by content marketing agency The Big Shot.

LONDON – DDB London has created a newspaper ad for Philips, which celebrates the inauguration of Barack Obama by poking fun at the outgoing president, George Bush.

LONDON – The Government has lent its support to a £2m scheme to create a national radio station to run in Her Majesty’s prisons.

LONDON – Model and presenter Kelly Brook has been dropped as a judge on ITV’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ after just six days in the job after producers felt she didn’t fit the show’s format.

LONDON – Low ratings have forced ITV to cancel ‘Britannia High’, the homegrown rival to Disney’s money spinning ‘High School Musical’ that it hoped to turn into a live events and a lucrative merchandising franchise.

LONDON – Mindshare has hired the commercial head of Scottish Premier League club Glasgow Rangers, Stuart Cain, as partner in its newly formed Invention group.