MySpace Music experiments with audio ads The State | LOS ANGELES -- Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online. | The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on artist profiles, album pages, playlists and pop-out pl...
Summary Box: US magazine sales fall 2.2 percent Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | MAGAZINE CIRCULATION DOWN: The Audit Bureau of Circulations says U.S. magazine circulation dropped 2.2 percent in the second half of 2009. Sales at newsstands and other retail sites fell 9 percent, while paid subscriptions fell 1.1 percent. | PAIN FOR PUBLISHERS: The steep f...
Girls learn sharp lesson about market forces The Times | The Royal Bank of Scotland has been dragged into a bitter row over the closure of an independent girls' day school in a leafy suburb of Sheffield. The bank refused further funding to Brantwood School and parents and old girls have organised a prote...
Ruinian off to robust start as it taps market for $1b Hong Kong Standard The international tranche of mainland health- food maker Ruinian International's IPO was fully covered when it opened its roadshow yesterday to tap the market for as much as HK$1.13 billion. | //--> Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | The international tran...
MySpace Music experiments with audio ads The Press Democrat | The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on artist profiles, album pages, playlists and pop-out players. They expand on a trial that began in December. | The ads are impossible to avoid, unlike the visual, banner ads t...
Google airs 'Parisian Love' ad on most-watched Super Bowl LA Daily News | By Frank Michael Russell | frussell@mercurynews.comUpdated: 02/08/2010 03:53:03 PM PST | Game? What game? | In past decades, many viewers watched the Super Bowl at least as much for the creative advertising (Apple's classic "1984" Macintosh sp...
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Wall Street Picks Its Way Through Latest Data The New York Times | Shares traded within a narrow range Wednesday on Wall Street even after a payroll company's report on job cuts in January came in lower than expected. Mixed earnings were a drag ...
Pepsi Invites the Public to Do Good The New York Times | DECADES ago, consumers were invited to "be sociable, have a Pepsi." Now the brand wants to invite consumers to help Pepsi support social causes - and will use social media like F...
Bankers Put Focus on 'Real Economy' The New York Times | DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - Jobs will be hard to find in both the developed and developing world as bankers, corporations and governments work to put the financial system and world econ...
MySpace Music experiments with audio ads The Miami Herald | LOS ANGELES -- Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online. | The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on arti...
Advice on Patenting Ideas, Marketing Jewelry and the Costs of a Family Restaurant Wall Street Journal | Q: My partner and I have a great multimedia-business idea that we want to put into action. I would love to tell you what it is, but am afraid if word gets out, we'll be too late. How do we get a patent, so we can lock down our concept before someon...
MySpace Music experiments with audio ads The State | LOS ANGELES -- Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online. | The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on arti...
Hainan fears real-estate bubbles - again Asia Times | By Stephen Wong | SHANGHAI - Money has flooded into the tropical Chinese island province of Hainan for property speculation in the few weeks since the central government unveiled a plan to turn it into an international tourist resort. | More than 100 developers, including publicly listed China Vanke, Agile Property and Poly, are believed to be in...
