| 48 killed, hundreds injured in Argentinian train crash At least 48 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday in a commuter train crash at one of the three busiest stations in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, BBC reported, quoting the... | |
| Several killed in Argentinian train crash Several people were killed and about 550 injured Wednesday in a commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, BBC reported.
Local reporters said they saw 12 bodies removed... |
| Media General explores sale of newspapers RICHMOND, Va. -- Newspaper publisher and TV station owner Media General said Wednesday that it is exploring the sale of its newspaper operations, which produce nearly half its revenue.The company... |
| Murdoch behind bid for separate Scotland Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday appeared to throw his weight behind Scotland's independence bid, a move welcomed by Scottish First Minister and pro-independence campaigner Alex... |
| Cherie Blair sues Murdoch's company over phone hacking LONDON -; A lawyer says Tony Blair's wife Cherie is suing Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company over phone hacking. Graham Atkins said in an email Wednesday that Cherie Blair is... |
| Blair's wife sues Murdoch firm over phone hacking Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, alleges that her voicemails were unlawfully intercepted by one of Rupert Murdoch's UK... |
| Top Tory attacks PM for Murdoch 'cronyism' Mr Davis, the Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden, urged the Leveson Inquiry into press standards to look "as much at the behaviour of political leaders as at the behaviour of newspaper... |
| Tony Blair's wife sues Murdoch company over hacking Cherie Blair, wife of Tony (and herself a lawyer), decides she, too, must stand in line and sue News International over allegedly having her phone intercepted. And to think that the Blairs and the... |
| 5,000 Kindle titles shut down by Amazon in pricing dispute (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Hard ball by Amazon or simply part of the normal warp and woof of business? Probably a bit of both. The Independent Publishers Group says Amazon has decided not to renew... |
| New U.K. site maps muggings, street violence StreetViolence.org is a U.K. site on which people who have been mugged can help others avoid certain high-risk areas by mapping the location of the crimes. Does this remind some of Microsoft's... |
| Microsoft Office for the iPad: To be or not to be (Credit: Apple) Is Microsoft cooking up a version of Office for the iPad? News site The Daily says yes, Microsoft doesn't exactly say no but claims that The Daily's story is inaccurate.... |
| Verizon customers hit by another 4G LTE outage (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Verizon's 4G services continue to suffer growing pains with yet another outage being reported by users in several different states. A few... |
| iPad and Kindle Fire: The top 5 technical annoyances share some of the same technical issues but also face their own unique challenges, according to a study out yesterday from FixYa. Analyzing the array of problems seen by site users who own one of... |
| Microsoft targets Motorola Mobility, claims patent abuse The software giant says Motorola is attempting to use essential patents "to kill video on the Web." It also didn't miss the opportunity to take a swipe at... |
| SAG Slams Anti-Merger Lawsuit lawsuit filed Wednesday by opponents seeking to derail the SAG/AFTRA merger referendum, blasting the suit as "completely without merit (and a) preposterous . . . attempt at circumventing the... |
| Former Universal Publicity Head Reveals Arnold Schwarzenegger's Not-So-Charitable Past Wild Thyme in Northern California. "Unless I could show him why a premiere would help the picture, and ultimately his bank account, I was to blow off their request." Schwarzenegger... |
| Bill DeCinces, Who Spent a Lifetime at Universal Studios, Dies at 84 , who spent more than a half-century at Universal Studios, going from a ditch digger to head of the art department to running operations at the company’s famed backlot, died Feb. 10 in Tarzana,... |
| Elizabeth Warren Hits Up Hollywood to 'Recapture' Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat ’s U.S. Senate seat" for the Democrats. Brown, who was elected as a Tea Party favorite, now is being heavily supported by donations from Wall Street, the defense industry and GOP political... |
| Anti-Merger Lawsuit Filed Against SAG and Officers Opponents of SAG/AFTRA merger filed suit in federal court Wednesday against the union and its officers, in an effort to preemptively void the merger referendum set to begin next week and force an... |
| Oscars Will Drop References to Kodak Theatre The Academy Awards venue will be referred to as the Hollywood and Highland Center in promos and on the Oscar telecast in the wake of Kodak... |
| Cyndi Lauper Polishes 'Kinky Boots' Musical in Pre-Broadway Run Lauper joins forces with writer Harvey Fierstein and director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell for a test run of their stage adaptation of the 2005 Miramax... |
| 'Price Is Right' Producers Win Pregnancy Bias Lawsuit have accused producers of harassment and discrimination. On Tuesday, a California judge tentatively dismissed one of those lawsuits from a woman who claimed she was fired from the show as a result of... |
| Til Schweiger on The Risks And Rewards Of Making Emotional Action-Drama 'The Guardians' Warner Bros. To Produce Til Schweiger's Sequel to German Comedy Hit 'Kokowaah' Like most of his German films, Schweiger co-wrote, directs and stars... |
| 'John Carter' Author's Estate Sues Over 'Pornographic' Comic Book Knockoffs Two weeks weeks before Disney's 'John Carter' hits theaters, the estate of the original author looks to protect his work. But the case opens up questions about the public domain and... |
| SAG/AFTRA Merger Campaigns Go Multi-Modal postcard set to drop in the mail by the end of the week. Urging members to vote Yes on merger are the high-wattage visages of several dozen stars,... |
| YouTube Hires Bing Exec to Lead Marketing Register here for free. Register so that you can sign up for our free e-mails, participate in our polls, comment on stories, share stories and generally keep connected to the leading source of... |
| See Pereira & O'Dell Execs Dance in Brazil Carnival Parade Register here for free. Register so that you can sign up for our free e-mails, participate in our polls, comment on stories, share stories and generally keep connected to the leading source of... |
| The Weather Channel Taps BBH, New York, as Agency of Record We charge a bit more for that-mainly because some very smart and experienced data geeks put a lot of time and effort into quantifying the agency, media and marketing world. You'll find the... |
| Ikea's Leontyne Green Talks About Diversity and Marketing to African-Americans number of marketing and advertising executives for a Q&A. The second in the series is Leontyne Green, U.S. marketing manager of Ikea North America, who answered via... |
| Droga5 to Handle Marketing for Kraft's New Gum Brand Register here for free. Register so that you can sign up for our free e-mails, participate in our polls, comment on stories, share stories and generally keep connected to the leading source of... |
| ING Direct Consumers Take to Twitter to Bash Acquisition by Capital One Capital One Group completed its acquisition of ING Direct , the American online banking unit of ING Groep. This week, U.S. customers of ING -- who loved the online only bank for a lack of... |
| Aegis Buys U.S. Digital Agency Roundarch for $125 Million We charge a bit more for that-mainly because some very smart and experienced data geeks put a lot of time and effort into quantifying the agency, media and marketing world. You'll find the... |
| Five Ways To Get More Out of Your Digital Agency Wikipedia defines symbiosis as the "close and often long-term interaction between different biological species." That pretty much describes the relationship between brands and their... |
| Report: Facebook and Google Sprint Ahead in U.S. Online Display Sales I'm pretty sure I already registered for the site and activated my online subscription, but I can't remember for sure, and I certainly don't remember my username/password. Can you... |
| NBC Plays Musical Chairs With Winter Schedule NBC has set premiere dates for the last of its 2011-12 slate, carving out time for two new sitcoms and a hidden-camera series starring Betty White. The Amanda Peet... |
| Comcast Sets 4 New Digital Networks Comcast is making good on its promise to beef up minority involvement in its cable division, though it's doing so with digital networks instead of terrestrial cable channels. It's not quite... |
| Tony Blair's wife sues Murdoch co. over hacking Cherie Blair, wife of Former British prime minister Tony Blair, attends an annual ThisDay awards ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Feb. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Sunday... |
| EWTN explains lawsuit against HHS in New York Times essay The president of the world's largest religious media network has explained his reasons for suing the U.S. government, in a Feb. 21 New York Times editorial about the federal contraception... |
| Murdoch flies to UK as paper dies, scandal lives LONDON - Rupert Murdoch touched down in London on Sunday to take charge of his media empire's phone-hacking crisis as his best-selling Sunday tabloid, the News of the World, published its... |
| Rupert Murdoch arrives at UK tabloid offices /enpproperty--> LONDON -With the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid in hand, Rupert Murdoch arrived at the offices of his UK newspaper division Sunday to face the growing... |
| Sky News Arabia unveils first presenters WAM ABU DHABI: Sky News Arabia, the 24 hour Arabic language multi-platform breaking news service launching in spring 2012, today unveiled six of its presenters who are now on-board and immersed in... |
| Time Warner, ESPN work to resolve transmission issues Follow this company said it is working closely with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to make sure next Monday's Kansas-Oklahoma State game isn't disrupted. Time Warner apologized to... |
| iPad and Kindle Fire: the top technical problems share some of the same technical issues but also face their own unique challenges, according to a study out yesterday from FixYa. Analyzing the array of problems seen by site users who own one of... |
| Twitter restores popular features to its iPhone, Android apps reviving a few "high-demand" features that were jettisoned from the previous versions, as described yesterday in Twitter's official blog. Both apps have brought back the swipe... |
| Apple vs. Facebook: Why users are the losers commentary At first glance, it looks like Apple really loves Twitter. The reality, however, is that it hates Facebook. It sure seems that way, at least. Apple's distaste for Facebook became... |
| New Microsoft ad aims knife at Google's jugular New video attempts to accuse Google of Googlighting. Should you be unfamiliar with this term, it allegedly means an ad agency selling productivity software in its spare... |
| Exhibitor Cinemark Reports Lower Fourth-Quarter Earnings NEW YORK - Movie theater operator Cinemark Holdings on Wednesday reported lower fourth-quarter earnings that were cut in half amid mixed revenue trends affected by the lower U.S. box... |
| Disney to Release 'Centenarian Who Climbed Out The Window' in Nordic Territories producing. Walt Disney will bow the film in the Nordic territories and has an option for the international rights for the finished film. The deal was brokered at the European Film Market in Berlin... |
