An episode of the “Family Guy” animated comedy has been pulled from the Fox.com and Hulu websites by Fox after scenes which appeared to predict the Boston Marathon bombings were posted on YouTube.
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North America - 17/04/2013
The tide has turned for Yahoo 's sort-of-new boss Marissa Mayer and not in the best possible way. Forbes magazine indulges in gentle sarcasm in talking about some of the company's latest figures.
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United States - 17/04/2013
Fresh research conducted by Rakuten for the Internet Retailing Expo has found that one in four delegates expect High Street shops to morph into something more akin to showrooms over the next 12 months.
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Google has offered to make legally binding changes to its search results in a deal with European regulators.
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New research into social media behaviour has been unveiled, finding that Twitter and Facebook users fall into one, or more, of 12 distinct social media personality types.
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Blackberry is asking securities regulators to investigate a report that its new phones have high return rates.
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North America - 13/04/2013
This issue of The Drum explores the lack of women at top level positions and takes a look at the issue of copycat packaging design.
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Digital marketing continues to lead the way in terms of ad spend and was revised up to the fastest rate since Q4 2011 with a net balance of +8.9 per cent according to the latest IPA Bellwether survey for Q1 2013.
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It was one of the most embarrassing advertising splits of all. Now, almost a year after General Motors publicly dumped Facebook advertising on the eve of the social network's IPO, the car maker is back on board.
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United States - 10/04/2013
UK digital ad spend surged 12.5 per cent like-for-like to hit a record £5.42bn in 2012, with mobile accounting for 10 per cent of spend, according to the latest Digital Ad Spend report from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC.
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Ron Johnson, the Apple stores genius who took over as boss at venerable US stores chain JC Penney, is out after 17 months as CEO .
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United States - 09/04/2013
Nestle's U.S. division has awarded media-planning and -buying duties reportedly worth around $700 million to WPP's Group M. The business was previously with Zenith of the Publicis Groupe.
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United States - 08/04/2013
The full impact of Tesco's American adventure becomes clear today with a Telegraph report that getting out of its unprofitable Fresh & Easy business in the US will mean a £1 billion writedown. In a separate report by Bloomberg, Shore... Read more
International - 08/04/2013
A blast of unseasonal Arctic air has hit Britain’s ailing High Street’s according to new figures, which indicate that like-for-like retail sales in March were 0.9% down on a year ago.
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Barack Obama's victory at the polls last year was far more pronounced than initially expected, with predictions that the presidential race would go to the wire proving well wide of the mark as he handily swept aside Mitt Romney.
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United States - 05/04/2013
Consumers are paying over the odds for food labelled as organic thanks to a ‘health halo effect’, according to researchers.
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Facebook has been cited as playing a role in as many as a fifth of divorce cases as suspicious partners take to social media sites for evidence of extra-marital affairs, according to a law firm.
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Despite recent news that bed and mattresses store Dreams has been sold to private equity firm Sun European the store has been identified as one of the highest performing bed retailers online.
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