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New York Times Co. newspapers’ online ad revenues, including those for the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Sarasota Herald-Tribune, surged in February - up 23 percent from a year ago - though overall ad revenue was all but flat, reports Mediapost (via MarketingVox). About.com’s February ad revenue also soared, to $5.4 million, up 75 percent compared with February 2005.
The company also reported more than 450,000 subscribers for TimesSelect, the paid service launched last September, providing subscriber access to some two-dozen op-ed and news columnists. Around 62 percent of users receive the service as an add-on to home delivery; 38 percent pay around $50 a year for the product.
Volvo will become the first automaker to offer HD Radio as standard equipment in all but one of its 2009 models. The running change becomes effective next month on the 2009 Volvo model lineup.
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Macy’s is hoping to drum up excitement about its famous annual Thanksgiving Day Parade by handing out flip books featuring familiar parade scenes, including Santa’s arrival at the parade during the grand finale.
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Project Runway is still deadlocked in legal tangles that could keep the show off the air indefinitely.
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Forbes is combining its print and web staffs and reorganizing its sales and marketing teams in a move that will better enable the magazine to “weather the current economic storm,” says chairman-CEO Steve Forbes
The switch will mean a 43-job reduction,…
An overwhelming majority of mothers in America (90%) saw the economy getting weaker even before the collapse on Wall Street, and more of them now (40%) feel stressed about their current family life than feel good about the way things…
