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When the world's batsmen dazzle crowds at this month's cricket World Cup, many will use bats hand-made in India. But lucrative global branding that masks the bats' true makers threatens the country's craftsmen.

Fox Sports has rejected a proposed Super Bowl ad featuring a Christian bible verse.

The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event of the year, and while plenty of people watch for the game, there are just as many who watch for the commercials.

Ahead of the Sunday spectacle, curiosity over new Super Bowl commercials has taken over. Here is a list of most awaited Super Bowl Commercials 2011

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: JDS Uniphase, Silicon Image, Orexigen Therapeutics, China MediaExpress Holdings and Entropic Communications. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Power-One, Coinstar, Toreador Resources, YRC Worldwide and GT Solar International.

A Washington, DC-based nonprofit watchdog has urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to halt deceptive advertising and labeling of vitaminwater by a Coca-Cola Co unit.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: JDS Uniphase, Opnext, Aviat Networks, Silicon Image and China MediaExpress Holdings. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Power-One, Biodel, Coinstar, pSivida and MedQuist.

With Valentine’s Day coming up in a few weeks, we may witness more battles in the endless and epic battle between Western values and Eastern resistance

The iPad-only digital newspaper from News Corp., The Daily, touted to usher in the age of subscription-based revenue model on the web space, has been launched by Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President of Internet Services Eddy Cue at a press event at New York's Guggenheim Museum.

The A|X Armani Exchange Spring 2011 advertising campaign, Style Festival is regarded as an adventure of sound and style, evoking the independence and free-spirited world of music that speaks directly to the A|X Generation.

Internet company AOL, Inc. (AOL) reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results on the top-line, with in-line earnings. Management believes that 2011 is the come back year for AOL. Jefferies & Co. reduced its price target on shares of AOL to $26 from $27, while maintaining its hold rating.

Time Warner Inc posted a rise in fourth quarter revenue and profit thanks to a 21 percent jump in advertising sales at its cable networks division.

ThinkEquity has outlined its top technology stock picks for 2011. The stocks include AMD, Spansion, Entropic, Micron Technology, Nvidia, Aruba Networks, Mellanox, Stec, Google and Priceline.

Girls playing games with parents are better behaved and more grounded than boys

Unidentified people torched the Sri Lankan office of a British-based website that regularly criticises the Sri Lankan government, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa immediately ordered an investigation into the arson.

Google would hire several software developers to create new applications (apps) for its Android operating system, according to a report from Wall Street Journal.

Veteran rocker Ozzy Osbourne and teen sensation Justin Bieber come together for Best Buy ad

A Harris Interactive survey found that nearly half of mobile app users said they were more likely to accidentally click an ad than do so intentionally.

As Google experiments with Gmail display ads for a select subset of users, analysts weigh in on whether this could be the company's next great source of revenue.

Today the most common problem found with people who use the computer to browse the internet is that they unknowingly invite Spyware, Adware, Trojan and Virus into their device.

Taco Bell is introducing an advertising campaign to defend itself against accusations of a lawsuit which alleges that the fast-food chain doesn’t fill its tacos with real beef.