Charming Shoppes Considers Offloading Non-Core Assets
Charming Shoppes is considering selling off its non-core catalogs in order to focus on Lane Bryant, Catherines and Fashion Bug, writes Multichannel Merchant.
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Charming Shoppes is considering selling off its non-core catalogs in order to focus on Lane Bryant, Catherines and Fashion Bug, writes Multichannel Merchant.
Clear Channel has filed comments with the FCC opposing the adoption of new localism regulation. Clear Channel says the proposed regulations would turn the broadcast industry upside down and bring the industry back to a regulatory regime “long ago rejected” as being fraught with First Amendment difficulties.
SMS (texting) and mobile email may well be overtaken by mobile instant messaging (MIM), according to a TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) survey of 17,000 consumers across 30 countries, MarketingCharts reports.
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Abu Dhabi is launching a new English-language newspaper that the editor, Martin Newland, promises will be comparable to the Wall Street Journal.
Publicis Groupe’s chairman-CEO Maurice Levy says that by the end of the year, 20 percent of the group’s revenues will come from digital operations.
Cox Enterprises has just purchased Adify for $300 million.
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'Intervention' Returns Following Oxygen network’s rebrand, A&E is also getting a new logo and theme line: Real Life. Drama. The campaign surrounding the new branding - which is meant to express more honest and “emotionally intense” TV - will launch on Memorial Day.
Preconceived notions about the Baby Boomer generation abound, but many are merely myth, according to the third Quarterly Boomer Report from AARP Services and Focalyst, titled “How Well Do You Know Boomers? Counting Down the Top 10 Boomer Myths,” writes MarketingCharts.
The WB, the television network that was dissolved nearly two years ago when it became part of the CW, is being reborn online.
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The latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed that daily newspapers have been busily engaged in business as usual: losing readers.
Emmis Communications, owner of 25 radio stations, has decided to help internet radio companies make it on the web.
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Downtown Manhattanites are being treated to an interactive look at the new BMW X6 crossover. No, they aren’t taking the actual car for a test spin. Rather, they are using touch screens to manipulate a holographic view of the interior and exterior of the vehicle.
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