Warner Pulls Music from Last.fm
A reported dispute over compensation has ended the relationship between CBS-owned Last.fm and Warner Music Group.
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A reported dispute over compensation has ended the relationship between CBS-owned Last.fm and Warner Music Group.
Initial quality in the automotive industry has improved significantly in 2008, with substantial gains demonstrated by nearly three-fourths of the 36 ranked nameplates, according to the JD Power and Associates 2008 Initial Quality Study (IQS), writes MarketingCharts.
CBS will nail down about $2.5 billion in upfront business, according to a source, up slightly from the $2.45 billion it secured in last season’s upfront.
Vinyl wrapped shuttle buses flaunt advertiser messages in front of the Hampton’s crowd this summer. The program, from Titan Worldwide, completely wraps 16-seat taxis that shuttle passengers to beaches and to clubs and restaurants.
Penton Media has let go 42 employees due to “economic pressures.”
People over age 40 participate heavily in word-of-mouth and value personal recommendations and expert opinions, but they have not embraced social networking or blogs despite being heavy users of other online services, according to a ThirdAge/JWT Boom study, writes MarketingCharts.
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Some 55 percent of sales and marketing professionals surveyed say their companies have not implemented, or are just in the planning stage to implement, formal efforts to integrate or align the sales and marketing functions, according to a global study by the CMO Council, writes MarketingCharts.
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U.S. News & World Report, effectively ceding to competitors Newsweek and Time, has announced that it will drop back and publish only every two weeks.
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BusinessWeek has canned its first city focused publication, as well as its plans to publish other city specific editions. Due to slow ad sales, the June issue of BW Chicago will be the publication’s last.
Meredith Corp. is hacking away at its workforce, cutting 60 jobs from editorial, sales, production, digital imaging and other areas.
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Amazon.com, the largest e-commerce site in the country, went down for 90 minutes on Friday afternoon. The site blames the outage on its complex systems. “…On rare occasions, despite our best efforts, they may experience problems. We work to minimize any disruption and to get the site back as quickly as possible,” the company said in a statement.
CBS has inked a deal with Hallmark that will give the company access to CBS’s entire television library.
'You shall beIf a recently deceased loved-one had a penchant for Precious Moments statuettes, you now can indulge her taste by burying her in a casket decorated with the fawn-eyed children.
Some 16 percent of the global information workforce is “Hyperconnected” - and the 36 percent who are “Increasingly Connected” will likely be joining them soon - according to a recent study that examined device and application use and used cluster analysis to identify various groupings, MarketingCharts reports.
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