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Analysis: Amazon's advertising push gains steam

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Amazon.com Inc is known as the world's largest online retailer, but the company is aggressively expanding in online advertising, putting it on course for a clash with Google Inc, the leader in the space.
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Blind French eatery seeks to conquer New York

A French restaurant where diners cannot see what they are eating, often spill their wine and must conduct conversations while staring into pitch darkness has proved such a success in Europe that it is making a foray into the Americas.
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Metallica and Lou Reed’s ‘Lulu:’ Record Store Takes Counterintuitive Ad Approach

So it's not exactly on the ballot for the 2012 Grammy Awards, but Lou Reed and Metallica's album collaboration Lulu isn't that bad. Or is it? A record store took a rather counterintuitive approach to advertising its music, when it hung a sign nearby the album which read, Lou Reed talking over Metallica playing boring jams. Probably the worst thing ever.
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Time Inc. Names Laura Lang as CEO

Digitas CEO Laura Lang will become the new head of Time Inc. beginning in January and nearly a year after the previous leader of the publishing company was shown the door.
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Perform looks to Facebook to increase ad rates

British digital sports rights media firm Perform expects to be able to increase its advertising rates around video by employing more scientific data, such as that provided by Facebook, to target marketing at viewers.
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Warren Buffett buys his hometown newspaper

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett buys newspapers every day, the hometown daily included, but on Wednesday he dispensed with the single-issue price and bought the whole company instead.
One in five U.S. adult infected with HIV do not know it.

Few in US with HIV Have Virus Under Control

Only 28 percent of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV have the infection under control, increasing the risk that they will spread the disease to others, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
Teenager Beaten for Suspected Smoking

Obama Administration Appeals Cigarette Warning Ruling

The Obama administration on Tuesday appealed a U.S. judge's ruling and injunction that blocked tobacco companies from having to display graphic images on cigarette packs and advertising, such as a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat.
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Men Don’t Always Think About Sex: Study

Contradicting the popular belief that men are obsessed with thoughts of sex, it has been found by a new study that men really think about sex only 19 times per day.
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Lions Gate Sued by Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg brought more attention to the movie Camp Hell than its makers might have wished when he filed a lawsuit against Lions Gate Entertainment and Grindstone Entertainment.

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