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November Auto Sales Highest Since Recession
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 12:31pm | 556Read More...November vehicle sales in the U.S. were the best in more than six years, according to The Wall Street Journal. An improving economic picture is clearly partly responsible. General Motors (NYSE: GM) Vice President Kurt McNeil told The Wall Street Journal, "We feel good about the direction of the...
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Have Super Bowl Ads Become Too Costly For Advertisers?
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 3:11pm | 667Read More...Quick: think of a televised event that nearly everyone you know watches at the same time. Chances are good you probably thought of the Super Bowl. Outside of critical breaking news, the NFL football championship is one of the few remaining instances where U.S. broadcasters and advertisers can...
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Facebook May Sell TV Style Ads (FB)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 4:12pm | 158Read More...Shares of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) spiked on the rumor that the social media giant will sell TV style commercials, according to Bloomberg. The advertisements would run for 15 seconds and could bring in up to $2.5 million of revenue a day. These advertisements are similar to those that Google (...
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Facebook, Click Fraud, and Digital Advertising Deception
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 11:22am | 2003Read More...Click fraud and its perpetrators hit national headlines this month after Long Island startup Limited Run decided to discontinue its Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) advertising on suspicions of bot ad clicks. The underlying difficulty of advertising on the Internet, however, is nothing new. John M. Simpson...
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Dish Loses Bid to Dismiss Ad-Skipping Case
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 2:57pm | 479Read More...Satellite TV provider Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) is the subject of a lawsuit from broadcast networks over a new feature that allows consumers to skip advertisements. According to the Christian Science Monitor on July 3, the CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC and Fox networks are suing Dish over the new AutoHop...
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Are Facebook's Ads a Trend Or a Fad?
Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 8:56pm | 640Read More...In Louis Bedigian’s Are Facebook Ads Selling Deception? the question was asked and answered whether the consumer is being abused by finding advertising in their news feeds. Of course the answer is a resounding yes. Move over to Google + was a suggested remedy. And although that remedy was...
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Invest in China's inland empire
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 3:48am | 628Read More...As stated in the last paragraph on my article (Plenty of Hiring - Just not in America), China's manufacturing base is gradually shifting away from coastal and southern tier 1 cities to more inland tier 2 cities. While it is still being debated how fast this transition can be, and whether the...
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Investorideas.com Reports on the Pulse of Investor Relations; Is there a Pulse?
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 4:06pm | 647Read More...September 8, 2010 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Investor Ideas, an investment research portal specialized in sector research, has recently reported on the pulse of the economy from the perspective of a small business owner in the financial markets. Investorideas.com specializes in sector research...
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The Benchmark Company Lowers the Harte-Hanks (HHS) Bar
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 11:45am | 119Read More...The Benchmark Company has updated its analytical coverage of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS), In a new report posted this morning, the research firm notes that the fourth quarter’s (2009) results were mixed, and that challenges remain despite the improved company outlook. The report states “In view...
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Super Bowl Ad Rates Down
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 4:33pm | 201Read More...The lingering effects of the financial crisis and recession have claimed another victim: Super Bowl ad rates. For only the second time in Super Bowl history, prices for the coveted Super Bowl ad spots have gone down. TNS Media Intelligence reports that 30 second ads to be aired on CBS (NYSE: CBS)...
