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Advertising
Publicis Strengthens Its Digital Offerings With New Acquisition
Lately, it seems Paris-based holding company PublicisGroupe is loathe to let a month go by without acquiring at least one new company. The company gobbled up China's EmporioAsia in June, ...
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Media
Online Video Ad Growth at Hulu and YouTube
With so many trends and counter-trends sweeping the media industry it can be difficult to recognize which ones to watch. One "keeper," though, is the growth of online video. We ...
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Food
Grocers Increase Offerings of Prepared Foods
Last week as I was getting on the elevator on my way out of Whole Foods (I know, I know, I'm crazy to shop there), three other people got on ...
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Retail
What Keeps Retailers from Facing Facebook?
With 49 million North American users and a $240 million investment from Microsoft, Facebook is the hot social medium. But interactive agency Rosetta found in May that only 30 percent ...
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Energy
Calm Seas for Transocean's Rigging Markets
The Company: Transocean, the world's largest offshore drilling contractor. The Filing: Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 6, 2008. The Finding: Demand for offshore drilling units continues to ...
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Pharma
Shire's Big Gamble on ADHD Drug Vyvanse
One of the recent unheralded successes of the drug world was Shire Pharmaceuticals' launch of Vyvanse, a new, long-acting treatment for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. The fact that so ...
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Travel
Travel Industry Lobbyists Descend on RNC
As the Washington Times reports today, the Travel Industry Association hosted a reception Wednesday evening in a St. Paul airport hangar. The theme? "Celebrating America's Skyline: A Toast to Travel, ...
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Travel
Midwest Receives $60 Million to Restructure
Looks like Midwest has finally put together its latest restructuring package, and it appears to me that the airline has decided to move toward a regional model. With $60 million ...
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Technology
Time for Tech Companies to Stop Hiding from Security Problems
MythBusters, the television story that experimentally examines urban myths, old wives' tales, and other popular wisdom, apparently backed down from examining RFID security when pressed by legal representatives from Texas ...
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Advertising
Embattled NebuAd Sees Its CEO Step Down
Stick a fork in NebuAd -- it's done. Chief executive Bob Dykes, who has led the behavoiral tracking firm since 2007, announced his intention to step down from his post ...
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Technology
Privacy Policies are Great -- for PhDs
Major Internet companies say that they inform their customers about privacy issues through specially written policies. What they don't say is that more often than not consumers would need college ...
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Food
Coke's China Play Expensive, Carries Risks
The lure of the fast-growing Chinese consumer market is strong. So strong that Coca Cola is willing to bet billions of dollars and years of having its earnings dragged down ...
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Technology
Google Chrome Reminds -- There Is No One OS
Sometimes stories emerge because journalists get bored and long for some excitement, and one of the prime times for that is at the end of the summer. Given that anything ...
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Media
Why Newspaper Magazines Fail, But "WSJ." Will Succeed
If Rupert Murdoch thinks print publications aren't a good business, he's doing a pretty good job of misleading the rest of us. After all, his Wall Street Journal has just ...
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Pharma
Pfizer Courting More Controversy with Viagra 'Advergaming'
First it was a pill. Then it was a cultural phenomenon. Now Viagra is a video game. Pfizer is currently advertising its blockbuster erectile dysfunction drug with an online game ...
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Retail
The Five Secrets of Publix Supermarkets' Success
In the crowded, complicated, low-margin world of supermarket retail, $23 billion Publix Supermarkets Inc. stands out. Warren Thayer takes a look at "Why Publix Is So Darn Good" in the ...
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Energy
Full Steam Ahead at Patriot Coal
The Company: Patriot Coal, the third largest producer of coal in the eastern United States. The Filing: Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 12, 2008. The Finding: Despite ...
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Travel
The Problem with the $150 Change Fee
As you may have heard, the big airlines are now charging a massive $150 fee for all changes to non-refundable tickets. While this may look like a great revenue generator ...
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Health Care
Selling Physician-Assisted Suicide For Big Savings
Somehow I managed to miss the fuss back in July when the Oregon Health Plan -- the state's medical-coverage plan for low-income residents -- told cancer patient Barbara Wagner that ...
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