MEDIA & ADVERTISING TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 100 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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Good morning. Here are 10 (OK, perhaps slightly more than 10) media stories. Gannett had a good second quarter : Broadcast revenue was “almost 88 percent higher in the quarter compared to the second quarter last year.” Publis...
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When news recently broke of NSA spying on prominent Muslim Americans, most people were far from shocked. If anything, it was expected. After all, these individuals have Muslim names, either advocate on behalf of the Muslim community or s...
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Entrepreneurship goes beyond Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Garrett Camp , and it embodies something bigger than Twitter and WhatsApp. Entrepreneurship is a mindset, an attitude, and a lifestyle adopted by people who aren't satisfied wi...
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Berger’s biggest mainstream success was Little Big Man, published in 1964 and an ultra-wry tale of 111-year-old Jack Crabb
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A few weeks ago I wrote about my bout with writer’s block , and how I needed a good “slap” to get over it. That got me thinking: how do other writers get over those moments (or hours) when the blank screen is so imposin...
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* U.S. revenue rises 7.8 pct (Adds details, background)
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Xiaomi launched its flagship Mi 4 smartphone at a glitzy event in Beijing, where the Chinese budget handset maker's chief executive sought to challenge larger U.S. rival Apple Inc.
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Sky News' Colin Brazier recently sparked outrage when he went through luggage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and now he is speaking out about why he did it. In a piece for the Guardian on Tuesday, Brazier admitted that...
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By Julia Angwin via ProPublica A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com. First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeto...
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Seventeen major Hollywood movies may have included characters that identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) last year, but there's still work to be done in terms of representing the community fairly and equally, a new r...
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* CEO compares new phone to Apple's iPhone (Adds analyst comment)
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By William A. Blunden via Dissident Voice In the wake of Ed Snowden’s revelations there’s been a litany of calls for the widespread adoption of online anonymity tools. One such technology is Tor, which employs a network of Internet relay...
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Soham Chatterjee / Reuters : Comcast Q2 profit beats estimates with $16.8B revenue, loses 144K video subscribers, adds 203K internet customers — Comcast profit beats estimates on internet subscriber growth &mdash...
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Singer-songwriter unveils tracklisting and cover art for his latest LP.
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FX subscribers will be able to watch the complete series via FXX's new portal.
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Comcast, the largest cable operator in the United States, said second-quarter profit increased almost 15 percent despite a loss of 144,000 video customers.
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By Blake Bakkila, Annabel Edwards, Edward Ferguson and Alexa Santos via Medill Justice Project A man who has spent 35 years in solitary confinement—one of the longest stints in a U.S. prison—may soon be released into the general inmate p...
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Rusev's International Social Ambassador cut a controversial promo during the PPV.
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The company amended its corporate bylaws as part of a temporary move gives Time Warner more freedom to oppose a takeover offer from 21st Century Fox.
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Ronald Grover / Reuters : A Fox-Time Warner deal would give Murdoch new heft in China — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's plan to buy Time Warner would help the Twenty-First Century Fox chairman make larger inroads in China...
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July 22 (Reuters) - Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by strong growth in high-speed internet subscribers.
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By Said Hamideh via Medium The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that more than 469 residents in the Gaza Strip and 5 Israelis have been killed since the Israeli Military incursion, oddly dubbed “Protective Edge”, began on July 8th, 20...
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News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers agrees to pay substantial undisclosed damages and legal costs Actor Rhys Ifans and entertainer Michael Barrymore have settled their phone hacking damages claims. They both received substa...
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The actress - famous for playing Sansa Stark - performs at a US motor race.
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Loek Essers / Techworld : Dutch court rules ebook reseller Tom Kabinet can stay open, says reselling not akin to piracy — Dutch courts lets ebook reseller stay online … Dutch publishers have failed in their effo...
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Sandi Toksvig will return to host daytime quiz show, which will be filmed in Scotland.
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Saul Williams also says that the musical should have toured smaller theatres first.
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Tulisa Contostavlos is apparently set to expose all about the ‘Fake Sheikh’ drugs sting that landed her in court in a tell-all BBC Three programme.
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Watch a video preview of next Tuesday's Neighbours episode.
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American Customer Satisfaction Index Fox News’ website dropped 7 percent in American Customer Satisfaction Index’s annual survey of consumer satisfaction, while USA Today’s rose by 4 percent. It’s the first time i...
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Aamir Khan and Abhishek Bachchan were captains of the celebrity teams.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian : BBC Worldwide chief receives £231,000 bonus despite fall in profits — Tim Davie says commercial division's revenues were ‘broadly flat’ if factors such as Lonely Planet sale a...
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At a time when financial engineering is becoming nearly as important as the software kind to ad technology companies, Centro is bringing an ad tech vet with investment banking experience in as its new CFO. Michael Bruns, who has held ope...
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The Souvlaki shoegazers reformed earlier this year.
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Monty Python Live (Mostly) perform well at UK box office.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post : Washington Post Heightens Wonk Wars With Storyline — NEW YORK — The Washington Post escalated the wonk wars Tuesday with the latest addition to the growing field of polic...
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Al Jazeera English : Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network. — Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Isr...
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The comedian's sitcom Josh sees him star alongside Jack Dee and Elis James.
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Vicky Pattison says the cast have stayed together because they always apologise.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple, once a can't-miss stock, is finding it tough to persuade portfolio managers to come back into the fold.
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Broadcaster says he "got things wrong" when presenting a report from the crash site.
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Sponsored Post: Their 40-hour work week might look a little different than yours, but here is what ad sales executives are really doing — and how they’re proving a ROI from their business development efforts.
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Chinese manufacturer's latest flagship device boasts an impressive specs sheet.
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(Repeats, without changes, to widen readership) (Adds fund manager comment)
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The band release their first single since 2011.
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Local news sites in the UK are publicising the fact that links are being hidden from the search engine – and attracting thousands of page views to the original stories as a result
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Celebrity pair receive substantial damages from News Group Newspapers.
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O2 will stock the red version of the device exclusively for three months.
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Melanie C, Chris Moyles, Kian Egan and more will appear during the live dates.
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Bloomberg Media has appointed former DMG Media and BBC Magazines leader Matt Teeman as its commercial director in Europe, Media East and Africa.
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A software program that acts as a super spelling checker often stops on the word "got," and asks, in effect, "did you mean gotten "? Probably not. "Gotten" has, um, gotten lost as a verb form. There are times when it comes in handy, or s...
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LAUREL, Md., July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Laurel, MD – July 22, 2014: Cynthia Loving aka Lil' Mo has signed her first book deal with Next Level Publishing. The Godmother of R&B and Hip-hop is getting set to release the ...
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SAN FRANCISCO and SHANGHAI, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading mobile games publisher, Spellgun, is announcing today their partnership with Get Set Games to bring their new dungeon crawler game, Storm Casters, to the growing Chin...
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NEW YORK, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) today announced that its worldwide revenue in the second quarter of 2014 increased 6.4% to $3,870.9 million from $3,637.0 million in the second quarter of 2013. ...
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Up until now, Clear Channel stations have been simulcasting commercials from the traditional radio signal being broadcast across the app. That signal includes the local market commercials. Clear Channel has just announced it will be work...
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Splicky is a 100% transparent mobile demand-side-platform (DSP) that currently handles up to 5 billion global ad impressions per day. Features such as Location-based Targeting, Native Ads and Rich media allow Advertisers and Agencies to ...
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At the end of the day, advertising is a talent business. That's why Ad Age is seeking out the best places to work in several of the industries we cover: ad agencies, ad tech and media. We'll celebrate the top-ranked companies in each sec...
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TORONTO, July 22, 2014 /CNW/ - To prove that Montana's Best of BBQ Sampler event is irresistible, the Montana's team tried to shoot an entire ad campaign by bartering with BBQ ribs, sausages, chicken, brisket, and shrimp. And it wor...
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LAS VEGAS, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The saying "Happy Friday" took on a new meaning for one southern Nevada resident after his gaming experience on global gaming entertainment leader IGT's (NYSE: IGT) famed MegaJackpots® g...
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OTTAWA, July 22, 2014 /CNW/ - Espial® Group Inc. ("Espial" or the "Company"), (TSX: ESP), a leader in the delivery of on-demand TV software and services, today announced its second quarter financial results for the three and six mon...
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Ernst & Young selecciona al fundador de Curacao para otorgarle un prestigioso premio que reconoce la excelencia empresarial y el compromiso con el negocio y la comunidad LOS ANGELES, 22 de julio de 2014 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ ...
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Pandora has hired Lars Murray as Vice President of Industry Relations. Murray comes to Pandora with more than twenty years of experience in the music industry, most recently as VP of Digital Media at Columbia Records where he led a digit...
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BOCA RATON, Fla., July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group said it was retained by HappyWares™ to produce videos to help business owners become contestants on popular television shows like Shark Tank, just as it did for ...
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NEW YORK, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- What's the ideal mix of scheduled and free time for a developing mind? Is there one? And what sort of mix today's children experiencing? Well, with parents of K-12 students reporting their chi...
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Christa Dibiase will be responsible for overseeing Clark Howard's syndicated radio show, TV products, and all digital products, including ClarkHoward.com. In addition, she will continue to oversee the operation of The Consumer Action Cen...
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This year Gartner estimates mobile ad revenue will hit $18 Billion, a 37% increase over the $13.1 Billion spent in 2013. By 2017 Gartner estimates that number will reach $42 Billion. As a Manager with the responsibility of increasing rev...
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Samsung has created an outdoor campaign to coincide with the first birthday of the future monarch, Prince George, featuring pictures of another baby George.
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Suzuki is releasing a brand campaign for its Swift range of cars including a TV spot that breaks on Monday.
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Now the gold tickertape has settled after Super Mario scored big time and Lionel made a Messi of his golden chance, it's a good time to work out who won the battle of the brands in terms of digital customer engagement over the four weeks...
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The incumbent agency on the account was BBH..
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FCB Ulka's animation-heavy TVC for Sunfeast Marie Light Oats, a biscuit brand from ITC, attempts to re-launch the product in the market. Other efforts to this end include a packaging revamp as well as print, outdoor and point-of-sale ads..
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Nabanita Sircar will head Instinctif Partners' office in India..
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HAILEY, Idaho, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Marketron, the leading provider of business software solutions and services for the media industry, just announced the availability of a new location-based advertising solution that will enabl...
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PARIS, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Publicis Groupe publie ses résultats pour le 1er semestre 2014. Maurice Lévy, Président du Directoire de Publicis Groupe, commente la performance et les perspectives du Groupe. Visionne...
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PARIS, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Publicis Groupe, the world's third largest communications group, reports results for the first-half of 2014. Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Lévy comments on H1 and outlook for the rest of 2014. Watc...
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Ross (pictured right), now heard on WRMF, the station she started her career with over 30 years ago, is returning to SUNNY, the station she and former host Kevin Kitchens once dominated the market (Kitchens died of a heart attack in Ross...
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Kevin Rolston, Virginia Sinicki, and Jason Pennington are rumored to be returning to Digity's WRMF in West Palm Beach. The three canceled a press conference planned for 3 p.m. Monday and this was posted to their Facebook page: "The KVJ S...
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The Chicago Tribune reports Erich "Mancow" Muller, has filed a lawsuit against Rodney Rainey's Maverick Radio Partners claiming Rainey defrauded him out of $50,000 that Muller invested with him to purchase radio stations. Muller says the...
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WASHINGTON, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: CHILLING OUT Profile America — Tuesday, July 22nd. On these scorching hot summer days, with the...
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BEIJING, July 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for China increased 1.3 percent in June. The index stands at 294.0 (2004 = 100), following a 0.7 percent increase in May and a 1.1 percen...
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FRIANT, Calif., July 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Another Table Mountain Casino Club Member is the latest winner of the Massive Cash jackpot that randomly pays out up to $150,000! On Saturday, July 19, Bruce, from Clovis, a longtime fa...
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Earlier this month, we talked about how brands use color to establish their place in consumers' minds. But that's not the only way companies use subtle imagery to make connections with people. Sometimes simply choosing the right font can...
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Driscoll was the host of Minneapolis non-com KFAI's public affairs show TruthToTell. According to TwinCities.com Driscoll lived with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but in the last 10 months his health declined significantly. In S...
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Adams has been a content contributor with ESPN.com, Yahoo Sports, and other print and digital channels. The Adams Theory begins broadcasting weekday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. August 4 on the Clear Channel-owned Austin Sports talker (KV...
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Davis has been named operations manager for the Greenville and Asheville markets. He will also continue to serve as program director for 99.9 Kiss Country (WKSF) in Asheville. Davis has 30 years in the radio business, for the past 15 he'...
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Cumulus has promoted Blake Taylor to PD of KMJ- 580 AM and KMJ 105.9 FM in Fresno. Taylor has been morning man, morning drive news anchor, news director and APD at KMJ AM/FM since 2007. Taylor replaces Skip Essick who left last week afte...
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With the departure of Erin Madden, Cape Code Broadcasting has promoted veteran AE Judy Crocker to D.O.S. of the four-station cluster. Melinda Baker, who was the sales operations manager, is promoted to LSM. Crocker will take over sales r...
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Yahoo has lost its hold of the desktop display advertising market. Now the portal is trying to get a grip on mobile. Yahoo has agreed to acquire mobile ad-tech firm Flurry, the company said today, making a bid to boost its mobile ad reve...
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On Monday, AdLarge Media announced it signed a national advertising sales rep agreement with Commotion, which is a a Web and mobile communication portal that builds a social media community around the radio station and visually matches w...
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On Monday, Clip Interactive announced a new partnership with the seven-station Entercom Portland (Oregon) cluster to launch interactive mobile apps for all of their radio stations. The new apps will enable listeners to interact with all ...
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In a story we ran last Thursday about Philippe Bourciquot being accused of running a ponzi scheme in South Florida, we listed WSBR-AM as the station at which Bourciquot hosted a financial show. WSBR-AM's Bob Morency tells Radio Ink Bourc...
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Hoffman founded independent advertising agency Hoffman/Lewis and was chairman and CEO until he retired in 2013. Before starting his own agency, Hoffman was CEO of Mojo USA and president and creative director of Allen & Dorward. He's crea...
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SÃO PAULO, 21 de julio de 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- El FORO DE MUJERES LÍDERES realizado en Anguilla entre el 17 y 20 de julio por iniciativa del LIDE y del LIDE MULHER, reunió a 25 empresarias que comandan grandes empres...
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TORRANCE, California, 21 de julio de 2014 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Honda Stage y Live Nation presentarán tres conciertos en vivo en lugares icónicos de EE.UU. para apoyar el lanzamiento de nuevos vehículos de Honda...
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SAO PAULO, July 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The FORUM DE MULHERES LIDERES [Women Leaders' Forum], held at Anguilla from July 17th through 20th, an initiative of LIDE and LIDE MULHER [LIDE WOMEN], brought together 25 women executives who run...
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Integrated Whale Media Investments of Hong Kong is now the majority owner of Forbes Media, valuing the company at a whopping $475 million. What the buyers get is a dwindling print magazine, digital growth, and the Forbes brand, which has...
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As the number-one radio advertiser that is, according to Media Monitors. The big orange store aired over 52,000 commercials last week, 9,000 more than GEICO which came in second place for the second week in a row. Autozone moved up from ...
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Oskie Media has announced that “Tennessee Sports Radio” 1180 WVLZ Knoxville will cease operations at 5:00pm on Friday, August 29 as the company prepares to launch two new formats in the market. WVLZ is currently one of three ...
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BEIJING, July 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) today announced an agreement with Shanghai Film Corporation (SFC), Shanghai United Circuit Co. Ltd. (SUC) and Shanghai SFG-EPR Cinema Development & M...
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HOUSTON, July 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston Chronicle Media Group, publisher of the Houston Chronicle, La Voz, Chron.com and HoustonChronicle.com, announced today that it intends to begin the process to relocate its workforce to a...
