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A local newspaper in northwest Pennsylvania apologized for running a classified advertisement that called implicitly for the assassination of President Obama.

Even if you are an unreconstructed book lover, the future might not be as hard to get used to as you imagined.

A highly publicized corruption investigation has weakened Japan?s opposition party, but many worry about the failure of the news media to press the prosecutors for answers.

Monitoring important directory levels of a domain should become an immediate strategy consideration for all large companies performing SEO, not to mention anyone with a site that has the structure and authority to merit sitelinks at the root domain. ...

Why are local listings important? It's all about consumer usage. With so many consumers seeking local listing information, it's vital that advertisers with local entities proactively manage and improve their listings' accuracy to help gain favorable positions. ...

Microsoft hopes Bing, the name of its new search service, eventually becomes a verb, like Xerox and, well, Google.

The commercials and print ads represent attempts to address today?s anxieties by taking an optimistic look back at the Depression era.

The move comes eight years after the companies merged in a multibillion-dollar deal that came to symbolize an entire era in American business.

Authors, publishers and booksellers gathered for their annual convention amid news that sales had fallen 1.5 percent to just over 3 billion copies last year.

The advocacy arm of the American Medical Association unveiled a campaign intended to publicly shame movie studios for depicting images of smoking.

Given the number of people who are profiting from the suddenly family-unfriendly TLC show ?Jon & Kate Plus 8,? a more fitting title would be ?Jon & Kate Plus 80.?

Broadway musicals and plays had total gross receipts of about $943.3 million this season, a slight increase from the previous season and a record for total grosses, according to a new report.

The companies said that free text-messaging services offered to fans of the eventual winner did not influence the outcome.

One step beyond the Kindle, the new, smaller Cool-er book reader has a removable battery, and one charge is good for 8,000 page turns. What could be wrong?

Time Warner will finally end its ill-fated marriage with AOL.

A novel advertising agency linked to a magazine is introducing its largest campaign, a multimedia effort for the Alliance of Action Sports.

You've followed everyone's advice and started a blog. Now it's time to gain exposure and readership. ...

The National Organization for Marriage has bought advertising time on New York City and Albany stations in an attempt to stop the approval of a gay-marriage bill.

The changes stem from an unavoidable reality facing the music business: the economics of offering music free on the Web do not work.

Representatives provided free text-messaging services at parties organized by fans of Kris Allen after the final performance episode of ?American Idol? last week.

An Austrian entrepreneur and a group of Dutch scientists hope to resurrect a retro form of photography.

Each product or service category only has room for a tiny number of established leaders, and they capture disproportionate value in their respective market categories. Although other products or services may be objectively just as good, they require additional attention to evaluate, and require additional steps to lead visitors to action. ...

In 20 company-owned stores, mannequins display White Knot ribbons, part of a campaign created by a California digital media consultant.

Digital Sky Technologies invested $200 million in the social networking company in return for a 1.96 percent stake.

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Most appeals to donate blood treat the subject as if it was a matter of life and death. But a new campaign is taking a different tack.

Q & A with Stuart Elliott.

Three months into his role as host of NBC?s ?Late Night,? Jimmy Fallon has seemingly got the late-night comedy job figured out.

Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News host thriving in Washington, is called a liberal but has ties to the Palins.

The networks are betting viewers want to feel better, so they?re prescribing sitcoms and in one case -- the new Jay Leno show -- a risky treatment.

The Washington Post helped shape the history of the U.S. with its reporting on the Watergate break-in. Now, a memoir says The New York Times had the story earlier but let it slip away.

Many small business owners think that building a Web site is an end to itself, and that it will simply market itself. They soon find out there's more to it, and that's when the questions begin. ...

Presstime, the monthly magazine of the Newspaper Association of America will no longer be printed.

At the upfront media sales, network television peddles its annual shows as its audience dwindles. But here?s the thing: network television still has a bigger audience than its media competitors.

Cashing in on Susan Boyle?s popularity has been tricky for the companies behind ?Britain?s Got Talent.?

Mimi Beardsley Alford, who had an affair with John F. Kennedy while she was an intern in the White House, will tell her story in a memoir to be published by Random House.

Social media tools can play an integral role in promotion of your content and generating links. While you can't always make a direct correlation between going viral on Twitter and the acquisition of links, it's clear that promotion of high quality content can and will lead to natural link generation. ...

In the world of social media, it's about what the community and its members think, not about what your company thinks. Trying to get some traditional marketers and public relations practitioners to understand that is no easy task. ...

Airlines that are installing Wi-Fi systems aboard their aircraft may eventually use the equipment to provide passengers with programming to be viewed on laptops or smartphones.

?Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian? topped the Memorial Day box office fight with $70 million in ticket sales.

Beer Lao is wildly popular in Laos, but its maker and fans want it to become much more well-known elsewhere.

A company that sells much of the advertising on New York buses and trains and in stations has fallen behind on mandatory payments to the agency.

Are the Jonas Brothers fizzling as a full-blown Walt Disney Company franchise?

Those who think ?American Idol? is losing its grip on the top of the ratings are probably fooling themselves, at least according to Fox.

The art editor for the magazine said the cover ?doesn?t feel like something that was done digitally; quite the opposite.?

As high-end magazines struggle, Guitar Aficionado?s publisher said the quarterly schedule will help with ads.

The Internet has set up an international clash over free speech, as when a Saudi businessman sued an American author in British court.

Fewer journalists are pursuing investigations of wrongful accusations, death penalty opponents say.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Center for Democracy are united in their distaste for British libel laws, which they say suppress free speech.

Jim Collins is exploring big questions like why some companies succeed and, in his latest book, how successful companies implode.