When people think of Black Friday shopping, they usually think of things like flat screen TVs, toys and sweaters. Now you can add cars, trucks and SUVs.
Cars are such a deal right now that you might feel you are stealing when you buy one. Dealers have no customers, regardless of the price point, brand, style or size. Americans are afraid to buy because of the scary headlines and the times we are in right now.
Hurdler Liu Xiang's surprise departure from the Olympics was a blow to advertisers including Coca Cola and Nike that made the 25-year-old hurdler a star of campaigns aimed at Chinese consumers
The CEO of Mattel Inc. insisted Tuesday that his company has "rigorous standards" and apologized as the company was forced to recall millions of toys for the second time in two weeks.
The company that syndicates Rush Limbaugh's radio program defended the talk-show host Wednesday over his controversial "phony soldiers" remark, saying it's "unfair" to assume the comment was directed at combat troops opposing the Iraq war.
When people think of Black Friday shopping, they usually think of things like flat screen TVs, toys and sweaters. Now you can add cars, trucks and SUVs.
Cars are such a deal right now that you might feel you are stealing when you buy one. Dealers have no customers, regardless of the price point, brand, style or size. Americans are afraid to buy because of the scary headlines and the times we are in right now.
Hurdler Liu Xiang's surprise departure from the Olympics was a blow to advertisers including Coca Cola and Nike that made the 25-year-old hurdler a star of campaigns aimed at Chinese consumers
The CEO of Mattel Inc. insisted Tuesday that his company has "rigorous standards" and apologized as the company was forced to recall millions of toys for the second time in two weeks.
The company that syndicates Rush Limbaugh's radio program defended the talk-show host Wednesday over his controversial "phony soldiers" remark, saying it's "unfair" to assume the comment was directed at combat troops opposing the Iraq war.
The top Democrat in the Senate slammed Rush Limbaugh Monday over his recent controversial "phony soldiers" remark, despite the conservative talk-radio host's protests that his words have been taken out of context.
Google Inc. said it is expanding its Print Ads program to allow online advertisers nationwide to place print advertisements in 225 newspapers, serving half of U.S. newspaper readers.
Dow Jones & Co. Inc. said Wednesday its board will take over negotiations related to a $5 billion takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., a move that could bring a quicker resolution to the talks.
Readers of the The Wall Street Journal on April 27 may have noticed something unusual about the full-page ad on the back of the Marketplace section: a blacked-out sentence right in the middle of a block of text. Journal readers were left wondering: Was the hastily Magic Marker-ed out line part of the ad's creative message? Or was it covering up something truly offensive?
A deal could be struck by Monday for Turner Broadcasting System Inc. to compensate state and local governments for a panic caused by a marketing stunt, Massachusetts' attorney general said Friday.
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Former Apple CEO John Sculley, Nextel and AT&T Wireless founder Craig McCaw, VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver, and telecom banker Michael Price are backing a startup, Tello, which plans to merge instant messaging, VOIP, and cellphones.
Hurricane Katrina displaced one-quarter of the teachers in the New Orleans area and several districts will have to rebuild, Louisiana's education chief said.
From the moment consumer-products companies started placing ads in mid-19th-century newspapers, mass-media advertising has been about making connections. But while the modern world knits itself eve...
It's 9 a.m. in the spacious loft headquarters of Nina Designs, a rather bohemian Bay Area business that designs, manufactures, and distributes sterling-silver beads and other jewelry parts. The wor...
A group that has funneled millions of dollars into Republican policy battles is now taking on one of the nation's most powerful lobbying groups -- the AARP -- in the battle to overhaul Social Security, a news report said Monday.
In 1999, when Elizabeth Dole launched her improbable campaign for president, political satirist Mark Russell used a reference to former Sen. Bob Dole's work as a TV pitchman for a new sexual performance prescription drug to explain what made Elizabeth run.
As part of an intensified effort to capture terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, the State Department is considering doubling the bounty on his head to $50 million, State Department officials said Monday.
AT&T Wireless has outraged Asian-American civil rights organizations with a full page ad appearing Wednesday in newspapers across the country, prompting an apology from the cell phone carrier.
AT&T Wireless has outraged at least two Asian-American civil rights organizations with a full page ad that appeared in newspapers across the United States Wednesday, prompting an apology from the cell phone carrier.
Jerrie Norris is negotiating an ad with a salesman from Yellow Book USA. Along with her husband, Bobby, Norris owns an appliance business called Norris Repair Service in Manassas, Va. Today the sal...
"I feel kind of blue," wrote the 24-year-old Will Keith Kellogg in his diary in 1884. "Am afraid that I will always be a poor man the way things look now." W.K.'s feelings were understandable in li...
A solution to the 20-year-long asbestos mess may finally be in the works. As FORTUNE explained last March (see "The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice" on fortune.com), trial lawyers have pitted p...
Every spring, a few weeks before the Kentucky Derby, the newspaper industry stages its own high-stakes run for the roses: the Pulitzer Prizes. Though the mudslinging in this 85-year-old competition...
Looking for a few good employees? Look in your parking lot. Believe it or not, that's where some job candidates are going these days to dig up clues on your corporate culture. For example: Is the b...
Since its launch last August, Talk magazine has gone through an odd cycle in the media world. First, everyone was talking about it, then nobody was talking about it, then everyone was talking about...
Dustin Grosse is sitting on the edge of his seat in a conference room at the ad agency Young & Rubicam in San Francisco. Grosse is the brand manager for Covad, a Silicon Valley company that sells h...
A lot of strange press stunts have come my way at FORTUNE (last month a company delivered a cold pepperoni pizza to my office to promote its name change). But the most trippy was an all-red fashion...
This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for bi...
When you need a gallon of milk, a circular saw, a TV set, or even a new car, the plan of action is pretty straightforward: Find the appropriate store and buy it. Purchasing a computer is another ma...
All those pundits who've been saying print advertising is dead should probably read more. Okay, so we're tooting our own industry's horn here, but magazines in particular posted spectacular gains l...
Smoke has been getting in the eyes of tobacco companies lately. Whistle blowers like Jeffrey Wigand are saying cigarette makers knew all along their product was addictive. And the Liggett Group, le...
IT WAS JUST before noon in Laconia, New Hampshire, when Steve Forbes walked into the small, nearly empty, wood-paneled dining room at the Margate Resort, where the Laconia Rotary Club was holding i...
FOR AN APOCALYPTIC view of the future of the ad business, listen to Steven J. Heyer, Booz-Allen & Hamilton's expert consultant on marketing: ''Advertising agencies are in a very tenuous position. I...
THROUGH much of the magazine's history, FORTUNE's advertisements vividly reflected the way members of a powerful and discriminating class viewed the world -- or how they wished it could be. Even th...
FOR BETTER or for worse, the Senate Judiciary Committee's stunning rejection of Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee, Federal Judge Robert Bork, was partly a Norman Lear production. Conservatives ...
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