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British newspapers unite in bid to save Jaguar Land Rover


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Britain's biggest workers' union and key regional newspapers have launched a massive campaign to save beleaguered Indian-owned marques Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) from collapsing in the credit...


Give Pakistan space to act against terrorism, says Pakistani media
A day after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the Mumbai attack had the support of Pakistani 'official agencies', several leading newspapers Wednesday responded with anger. India should give Pakistan 'space' to act against terrorism, one editorial said while another contended that New Delhi seemed interested more in 'maligning Pakistan...


Obama picks Sanjay Gupta as US surgeon general
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general of the United States to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, an Indian American neurosurgeon and health affairs correspondent for CNN and CBS, media reports...


NPR Photographer Gets Close-Up Of Conflict
Gilkey's lens is seen here after being pierced with what he assumes to have been a rubber bullet — though he says it's hard to know for sure — while he was covering the Gaza conflict from...


Need a digital TV coupon Get thee to a wait list
Anybody else sort of see this one coming? It's a matter of weeks before the U.S. cuts out analog television signals entirely, switching to an all-digital market, but the fund established by the...


Police use GPS, Google Maps to locate missing girl
Massachusetts police used cell phone tracing via GPS and Google Maps to track down a 9-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped by her grandmother,...


U.S. Chamber seeks climate solutions from tech sector, not EPA
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Wednesday it is optimistic about the stimulus package currently in the works yet warned that the group may butt heads with Democratic leaders over issues like...


More Long John Silver
-By Steve McClellan NEW YORK Long John Sliver's has consolidated its media account at Cincinnati-based independent shop Empower MediaMarketing without a review, the client has confirmed. The...


Older Consumers Are Tech-Savvy Too
Photo Credit: AP Fifty-, 60- and 70-somethings use many technologies at rates comparable to those among younger consumers, according to a study by the Consumer Electronics Association and TNS...


Obama, Trans World, NIN
- President-elect Barack Obama selects a lawyer who formerly represented the Recording Industry Association of America in file sharing cases to be the third in command at the Justice Department....


Arbitron Agrees to Settle Lawsuits
-By Steve McClellan NEW YORK Arbitron said today that it has signed consent agreements to resolve lawsuits brought by the states of New York and New Jersey in October that alleged the rating...


Quick Action Seen In Congress For Digital TV Coupons
-(Dow Jones)- Congress is expected to act quickly to allow the Commerce Department to begin distributing coupons for digital television converter boxes after the agency was forced to create a...


Fiesta Bowl Outscores ABC
January 07, 2009 MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- It was brawn over beauty in Monday's Nielsen ratings race, as Fox's Fiesta Bowl scored a first place 5.5/13 rating and share in the ad-centric adult 18-49...


Investment group teeing up Yahoo deal
Such an arrangement would call for the investment group to pay a premium of approximately 20 percent to Yahoo's current share price, which closed Wednesday at $13 a share, for the entire company. ...


Lottery officials meet with owner of misprinted ticket
Thomas Noftall, a 27-year-old from Brampton, thought he had won the lottery -- until being told of a "printing error." (Sun Media/Dave...


Ignited Picks Up NBCU TV
-By Becky Ebenkamp, Brandweek LOS ANGELES El Segundo, Calif., agency Ignited has won digital media planning and buying duties for the NBC Universal Television Group, an account that includes all...


Warner Set To Go DRM-Free In France
A day after the announcement of iTunes abandoning DRM with all the majors, Warner Music France unveiled its DRM-free offering with download stores FnacMusic and...


B.C. polygamist leader arrested
Winston Blackmore the religious leader of the polygamous community of Bountiful located near Creston, B.C. shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some of his grand children, April 21, 2008 near...


Beware of fake pollsters, StatsCan warns
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is warning the public to beware of callers claiming to work for the federal agency and asking for social insurance numbers, credit card numbers or bank account information....


Protesters removed from Israeli Consulate in TO
TORONTO - A group of Jewish women staging a protest at the Israeli Consulate in Toronto have been removed from the building by police. The protesters include writer and professor Judy Rebick and...


Scion Takes Road Less Traveled
"United by individuality" initiative. Crafted by San Francisco-based Attik, the new "Samples" push offers a candy-colored, kinetic look at Scion's five-door xB subcompact wagon and the tC, a...


Better browsing on the Wii
Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES . While in a broad sense, the SDK will be available to...


Epsilon Names Andrew Frawley President-Digital, John Colasanti Leaving Carmichael Lynch
as president-digital services. Mr. Frawley spent time at Epsilon early in his career and was most recently CEO of ClickTactics, later named ClickSquared. In the 1990s, he founded and led Exchange...


ABC, BBC in deal for Iraq coverage
U.S. soldiers stand near damage at BBC headquarters in Baghdad after a rocket attack on May 9, 2008. (Getty Images photo) NEW YORK -- ABC News and the BBC will expand their news partnership in...


Scatter Pricing Stays Even With Upfront
January 07, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves boldly predicted his company's flagship network would be able to eke out increases in the cost of ad time sold during this...


Beatles Music Podcast Pulled
Norwegian national broadcaster NRK has pulled a series of 212 podcasts each featuring a different song by the Beatles, citing a breach of its rights agreement. It would have meant the entire Beatles...


Time Warner to Suffer Net Operating Loss for
TW CEO Jeff Bewkes NEW YORK Time Warner on Wednesday said it would post a net operating loss for 2008 after certain fourth-quarter reversals caused the company to write down the value of its...


U.K. Christmas Sales Up At Amazon, Play
Internet retailers Amazon.co.uk and Play.com have both reported strong Christmas trading, led by home entertainment products, particularly sales of DVDs. Both Play.com and Amazon.co.uk reported that...


Cisco Unveils Social Web Platform
Cisco unveiled a Web development software platform called Eos, a set of hosted online tools designed, among other things, to allow media and entertainment companies build social networking functions...


HBO Lands Obama Inaugural Rights
NEW YORK HBO will kick off coverage of Inauguration Week with an exclusive Sunday, Jan. 18, telecast of the star-studded opening ceremony, two days before the saturation coverage of President...


EW Loses Its Top Editor
EW Loses Its Top Editor The New York Post reports that Time Inc. moved Entertainment Weekly's current managing editor Rick Tetzeli upstairs to work on special projects while moving People Executive...


SanDisk Introduces slotRadio Device
The new device comes bundled with 1,000 songs selected from various Billboard charts and arranged into genre-based playlists stored on a removable memory cards. These bundled songs can't be removed...


Arbitron, New York Attorney General Settle Minority-Listeners Dispute
legal battle surrounding Arbitron's much-contested electronic radio measurement system in New York reached a truce today, as the company reached an agreement with the attorney general's...


Mobile Marketing Moves From Ads to Apps
January 07, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- In lieu of banner ads, advertisers increasingly are building mobile applications that provide contained brand experiences along with a usefulness that...


Former Lowe Exec Launches PI&C
Domenico Vitale NEW YORK Domenico Vitale, former chief strategy officer at Lowe in New York, is launching a collective of strategic and creative talent known as People Ideas & Culture. The...


Retailers Pull Back Holiday Search Spend
-By Brian Morrissey NEW YORK Retailers put the brakes on search ad spending as the holidays neared, according to a new study. SearchIgnite, a provider of search marketing management tools to ...


Disgraced boxer faces new sexual assault charges
LAVAL, Que. - Disgraced former boxing champion Dave Hilton Jr. is facing new sex-related charges. Police say Hilton, 45, is being charged today with sexual assault, assault, and assault causing...


Rogers picks up wireless subscribers
TORONTO -- Bucking a recessionary slump, Canada's Rogers Communications managed to add wireless phone subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2008, thanks to Apple's iPhone. Toronto-based...


Videogame Placements Set The Stage For Bang Camaro
Boston, 2006: Bang Camaro, a band made up of people in other bands, plays its first hometown gig. Would the group's arena rock-filed in iTunes under "hair metal"-go over well in a basement party full...


New year, 150 million Facebook users
on the Facebook company blog by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Should Facebook sustain this rate of growth, the 5-year-old site could hit 200 million users before Zuckerberg reaches his 25th...


U.S. Army deserter ordered to leave Canada
TORONTO - The first woman soldier to flee the U.S. military to avoid the Iraq war has been ordered deported along with her husband and their young children. Kimberly Rivera says her risk...


New trial in Nina Courtepatte slaying
Trandis Arsenault, sister of slain teen Nina Courtepatte, was devastated to learn that Joseph Laboucan has successfully appealed his murder conviction in the case. Arsenault likened the court's...


Two Canadians plead guilty in U.S. Ecstasy case
BILLINGS, Mont. - Two Canadians arrested in eastern Montana last year have pleaded guilty to trying to bring an estimated US$5.5 million worth of Ecstasy pills into the United States. The...


Search Not Recession-Proof, says eMarketer
NEW YORK Despite a degree of hyperbole from some marketers, search is not recession-proof. The economic turmoil is tempering all ad-spending growth, and that includes search, according...


Chinese Net Companies Apologize For Lewd Content
Three Chinese Internet operators have apologised for failing to purge "vulgar" content following a government pledge this week to expose and shut down offending Web...


$30M fix for sewer crisis
Hundreds of millions of litres of raw sewage could start spewing into the Don River at any moment because a massive 50-year-old sewer pipe in the Don Valley is "cracked, shattered," and at risk of...


921 use veto on adoption records
As the province prepares for a new era of openness, more than 900 people have formally requested that their personal adoption records remain sealed. Beginning June 1, most adopted adults and birth...


Scratch ticket winner playing hardball
Do you think it's right that a winning scratch-and-win lottery ticket can be dismissed as a 'misprint'? Yes No The holder should win something No...


Hundreds flee condo blaze
Parvez Rahman thought the fire alarm in his Richmond Hill condo complex was a false alarm and then he detected smoke. "Once I could smell the smoke, I collected what I could for my (two-week-old)...


Korean deportee can stay
Toronto mom Young Sil Cho has reason to celebrate the new year after being allowed to stay in Canada with her husband and young daughters. Cho, 39, was among the first set of deportees being...