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McD’s Employees Encouraged to Pen Burger Blogs

Same-store sales for McDonald’s rose 8.3 percent in February over last year, with worldwide sales up 11.7 percent.

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Fox, Acura Target Youth via Boost Mobile

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Acura are the first two advertisers to launch campaigns on Sprint Nextel’s Boost Mobile ad platform.

‘Newsday’ on the Block, News Corp. Interested

The Tribune Co. yesterday reported a loss of $78.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, compared with a profit of $239 million in the same period a year earlier. For the full year, it reported a profit of $86.9 million, down from $594 million.

‘Luxury SpaFinder’ Nixes Print Pub, Expands Online

SpaFinder Inc. is shutting down its bi-monthly print publication, Luxury SpaFinder with the July edition, and is moving the whole kit and kaboodle online.

Tensions Surround Clear Channel Deal

Tensions are escalating between the private equity companies purchasing Clear Channel and the banks financing the deal, to the point where it is unclear whether the deal will close.

Top 50 Web Rankings Issued; Love, Taxes, Politics, Economy on Visitors’ Minds

Yahoo Sites barely edged out Google Sites among U.S. web properties with 137 million visitors vs. nearly 136 million, as traffic to the tax, greetings/Valentine’s Day, politics, and news sites quickly increased, according to a monthly analysis by comScore’s Media Metrix service, MarketingCharts writes.

Question & Answer Site Visits Up 118%, Yahoo Answers Is Clear Leader

The market share of U.S. visits to Question and Answer websites for the week ended March 15 was 118 percent more than during the equivalent week in 2007 - and over the past two years U.S. visits to the category have increased 889 percent (Feb. ‘08 vs. Feb. ‘06), Hitwise said (via MarketingCharts).

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