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Note to Magazine Industry: Your iPad Apps Are Too Expensive
Four months after the launch of Apple's iPad, one thing is painfully clear about whether or not it can be the magazine industry's savior. Consumers will pay for content, but not that much.
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Troubled A&P Will Put Assets on the Block -- Maybe Even Food Emporium
The turnaround guy is out at A&P (GAP) and the turn-over guy is in, suggesting that investor/advisor Ron Burkle isn’t going to wait for a rebound in the company’s performance to make some...
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How Southwest Made Hay With "Bags Fly Free"
The conventional wisdom in the airline industry is that product differentiation doesn't work when it comes to coach flying. Many airlines have used half-hearted efforts to promote their...
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Circumcision Joke Sent Via Twitter Lands Writer a $70K Ad Agency Job
Saatchi & Saatchi has given a $70,000-a-year writing job to someone who sent the ad agency a penis joke on Twitter. It's a sign of how social media has come to dominate the creative scene in...
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Drug Company as Masochist: Bristol-Myers Takes Needless Whipping for HIV Drug Prices
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) is again needlessly taking a beating over the price of its AIDS drugs. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation criticized BMS for not agreeing to supply cut-price HIV drugs to...
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Is the Old Spice Guy "Post-Racial" or Just Another "Mandingo"?
Everyone loves the Old Spice Guy who asks, "So ladies, should your man smell like an Old Spice man?" But there was a time when, if you used a sexualized, shirtless black man to sell a cleaning...
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How the FDA's New Plan for Wireless Medical Implants Will Delight and Horrify the Conspiracy Theorists
When PositiveID (PSID) announced earlier this month that it had stopped marketing its VeriMed microchip implant, a whole set of conspiracy theories about how the government wants all Americans...
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Mad Men as Rorschach Test: Media Execs See Only Themselves in AMC's Hit Show
Season Four of Mad Men debuted last night and the universal reaction of those in the ad biz was: It was all about me! We learned that Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is losing clients and can't win...
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Mobile May Give eBay a Second Chance with Skeptical Shoppers
[Editor's note: As part of a major BNET redesign, Mike is moving to the new Last Store Standing blog on the site. As of Thursday, you'll be able to find him here:...
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A No-Brainer for Car Sharing Fleets: Plug-In EVs
Car sharing companies, including lChicago's
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