Companies that have historically spent significant amounts on advertising, such as car manufacturers and telecommunications outfits, are stepping up their commitment to the Internet, according to a report released by Nielsen// NetRatings.
State officials in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Missouri noted that the Oklahoma ruling involved a legal challenge by telemarketing groups to the
During the height of the anthrax scare two years ago, Cipro was widely seen as a silver bullet against the fatal illness, and Bayer Pharmaceutical vowed to keep the nation armed. Now a class action lawsuit against Bayer claims the antibiotic left many users with a variety of debilitating ailments, including severe joint pain, tendinitis and muscle ache, severe anxiety and panic attacks, insomnia and depression. Although those claims are open to dispute, Patrick Rucker reports that the decision to widely use Cipro against the anthrax attacks “now seems to have been hasty and made without a full appreciation of the consequences.”
Viacom Inc. told investors Wednesday that its revenue and profit for the full year would come in below earlier forecasts because the market for local advertising has not recovered as strongly as the company had expected
Facing growing losses, electronic ad-submission service provider AdStar Inc. announced Tuesday it risks possible delisting from Nasdaq after its shareholder equity fell below the minimum listing requirement of $2.5 million. AdStar's shareholder equity stood at $2.08 million as of June 30.
Dan Savage (in photo) and Tim Keck haven't fully participated in the electoral process lately, and their cross-town rivals are calling them on it. Seattle Weekly's Mark Fefer culled county voting records and determined that Editor Savage missed several recent elections and Publisher Keck isn't registered to vote. Fefer contrasts their actions with The Stranger's brash encouragement to its readers to join the political process.
On September 5, the FDA approved Barr Laboratories' Seasonale, a form of birth control that will allow women to have just four periods a year. The first reaction of many women upon hearing this news is that it sounds too much like messing with Mother Nature. But women who take the pill are already interfering with their bodies' natural rhythm -- just without the benefit of not bleeding. Giving birth is the primary biological goal of the female body and without modern contraceptives women would be having a lot more babies and a lot less bleeding. Audrey Van Buskirk talks to researchers and women in their childbearing years and encounters some pretty intense weirdness when it comes to discussing Aunt Flo.
Newspapers in the Phoenix-based alt-weekly chain picked up seven of the 11 awards handed out last month in the under 150,000 circulation category of the National Association of Black Journalists' annual contest. Dallas Observer's Jim Schutze and Julie Lyons, Cleveland Scene's Thomas Francis and Riverfront Times' Jeannette Batz all were named first-place winners.
