Google Aims to Protect YouTube UsersLawyers for Google asked Viacom for permission to better hide information that might help identify YouTube users before Google complies with a judge's demand that it hand over YouTube "user logs" to Viacom.
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Adidas is set to open its biggest store in the world in Beijing. The building reflects Adidas's ambition to use China as a battleground to overtake rival Nike.
In Italy, where film audiences shun subtitles, the death of leading dubber Claudio Capone has left many Hollywood stars speechless. Video
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Heineken Set to Keep ShopHeineken is borrowing a marketing technique from Disney, Apple and Nike to reach an elusive audience: young men. On Saturday it plans to open a shop in central Amsterdam selling Heineken-branded clothing, music, concert tickets and, of course, beer.
WPP Sweetens Offer for Researcher TNSWPP raised its bid for market-research firm TNS, which plans to merge with Germany's GfK, to $2.15 billion.
JWT Wins Microsoft AccountWPP Group's JWT ad firm has landed Microsoft's business-solutions advertising account, beating out McCann Erickson.
Yahoo Pursues Talks With Potential PartnersYahoo has picked up discussions with Time Warner over a combination involving AOL. News Corp. has also been hovering around Yahoo.
Clear Channel, Limbaugh Ink DealRush Limbaugh signed an eight-year contract for about $400 million, a big jump from his last Clear Channel deal.
Los Angeles Times to Cut StaffTribune's largest newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, plans to cut about 250 jobs, including about 17% of its news staff, as part of the newly private media company's mandate to slash costs.
Kekst & Co. Makes One Last SaleKekst & Co., a financial public-relations firm, has agreed to sell itself to France's Publicis Groupe in a bid to gain access to international markets.
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Atlantic City, N.J., is adding as many as 3,000 hotel rooms this year and planning new offerings including spas in a bid to remake itself as a destination that appeals to visitors looking to do more than gamble.
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Corporate deals used to be anathema to indie musicians who feared such tie-ins would diminish their street credibility. But these days, launching an independent artist requires more marketing effort.
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Jul 4,
7:14 am Each week in Jargon Tracker, we track the rise and fall of words and catchphrases echoing through culture. We rely on two measures: Factiva's database of major news and business publications, and Google's Blog Search. Numbers current as of July 3. (Click here for last week's edition.) In play this week: pregnancy pact, tetrodotoxin, strangelets, [...] Jul 3,
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Several thousand years after its inception, the art of origami is finally catching on in mainstream U.S. culture. Not only has there been an explosion in the number of themed books published, but paper folding has begun saturating the media, whether as the subject of art exhibits, the centerpiece of a magazine cover or advertising [...] Jul 3,
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Over at WSJ's China Journal blog, our colleagues Juliet Ye and Sky Canaves offer a guide to decoding the newest catchphrases sweeping through Internet culture in China.
Briefly: “doing push-ups” refers to a seemingly nonsensical explanation given by police after a teenage girl's death triggered the Weng'an riots. (A police building damaged in the riots is [...] Jul 3,
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Winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival (and also a favorite at subsequent film fests), writer/director Jonathan Levine's “The Wackness” makes its wide debut this Friday. A valentine to the year 1994, the dramedy stars former Nickelodeon teen star Josh Peck (of “Drake & Josh”) as Luke, a social misfit [...] |
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