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Mobile advertising edges closer to breakthrough

After years of hype and hot air, advertising on mobile phones finally appears to be making some headway, boosted by the popularity of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone and the content found on them. Executives gathered at the mobile industry's annual event in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress, said the biggest boost to advertising was the introduction of smartphones.
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Recruiting Kids to Sell the Brand

A new book highlights the effects on consumerism on children and raises questions and objections to research firms which recruit kids to test products, and to sell them in return for incentives.
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Merck to Pay $58 Mil to Settle Vioxx Advertising Case

Merck & Co. said on Tuesday it agreed to pay $58 million to settle allegations that its ads for the once-popular painkiller Vioxx deceptively played down the health risks in 29 states, including the District of Columbia.
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Former AOL Executives Sued Over Inflated Revenue

The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday that it had sued eight former executives of AOL Time Warner, alleging they had fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising revenues by more than $1 billion between 2000 and 2002.
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Amazon Sues New York Over New Tax Law

Amzazon.com sued the state of New York, challenging it for the new statute that requires Internet retailers based outside New York to collect New York sales taxes.
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Easyjet rapped over misleading ads

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said that budget airline easyJet broke advertising rules by increasing its fares after advertising a 25 per cent discount on its routes.
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Google Expand TV Ad Service on Dish Network

Google revealed its intentions to diversify its ad business by reducing its dependence on advertising tied to Internet search results and expanding its television ad service with Dish Network Corp.
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Yahoo, Google in Web Ad Talks: Report

Yahoo Inc. may be near an announcement that it will carry search web search advertising from Google Inc., according to a report released Wednesday.
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Ryainar Under Fire for Misleading Ads

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said that it has asked the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to consider taking action against budget airline Ryanair for misleading consumers in its adverts and for unwillingness to comply with ASA rulings
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News Corp. Acquires UK's Utarget

Fox International Channels, News Corp.'s pay television unit outside the U.S., acquired a 56 percent stake in European online video advertising network Utarget in an effort to increase its international ad revenue.
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EU Regulators OK Google-DoubleClick Bid

European Union regulators approved Google's $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick, an online ad tracker on Wednesday, saying the deal will affect online advertising competition. The Commission, the EU's top competition watchdog, said it found no proof that a merger between Google and DoubleClick would cause competitors to go out of business, according to Associate Press.
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Microsoft Prepares Employees For Yahoo Takeover: Full Text

Kevin Johnson, Microsoft executive, sent workers an upbeat email outlining a vision of how the company expects to combine Yahoo's resources and cultures following a successful takeover. The full-text of his internal memo is below:
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Finding a mentor via online social communities

Lavenderblu was a young girl when she got her first taste of domestic violence. After suffering at the hands of her father and witnessing repeated attacks on her mother, she ended up in a violent relationship of her own before finally managing to leave and find refuge with a women's support group.
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Microsoft to test new measure of Web ads

Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would test a new way to measure the effectiveness of Internet advertising in a challenge to an industry standard that has helped the likes of Web search leader Google Inc. Microsoft's Engagement Mapping is due to begin in beta form on March 1 and departs from a standard that ties sales, leads and traffic to the last ad that a user clicked on online. Instead, it attempts to take into account all the Internet interactions that lead a consumer to buy a pro...
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FCC Relaxes Digital Transition Ad Requirements

The Federal Communications Commission will back off from plans to force TV stations to air more advertisements about the upcoming transition to digital TV next year, according to several news reports.
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Yahoo's Jerry Yang's Letter to Employees

Yahoo rejected the unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover offer from Microsoft on Monday, saying the bid undervalued the company, putting pressure on the world's largest software company to sweeten the bid.The following is the email that Jerry Yang, Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo issued to employees:
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Super Bowl Time-Shifted in 07: Starcom Analysis

Almost two-thirds of TiVo users time-shifted throughout the Super Bowl live game last year which was broadcasted on CBS, according to media agency Starcom, dismissing notions that live sports are TiVo-proof.

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