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  • JetBlue Adds Mint Lip Balm and Self-Serve Snacks to Lure Travelers

    JetBlue Airways is offering pampering premiums and self-serve pantries hoping to fill seats on red-eye flights and distinguish itself in fiercely competitive transcontinental markets.

  • Eos Airlines Launches Money Back Guarantee Offer

    Eos Airlines is normally not in the business of betting, but it’s willing to make an exception with a new promotion to offer a money-back guarantee to select first-time flyers.

  • Auto Incentives Reach Lowest In Years

    For the first time in three years, domestic automakers’ average spending on incentives fell below $3,000 per vehicle in February, according to a report by online automobile resource Edmunds.com.

  • Three Times A Virgin

    Virgin Megastores returns to college campuses this month with a few old friends: sponsors Dentyne, Pontiac and Major League Baseball. Virgin College Mega

  • Goal Tending

    Whoever said rolling stones gather no moss should consider what Sprint pulled off with its Rolling Stones half-time show at Super Bowl XL in Detroit in

  • Flipping the Coin

    The fulfillment of marketing offers has become a two-sided coin in recent years, as traditional, order completion has been supplemented by virtual delivery

  • A Little Bit Louder Now

    U.S. marketers spent $19.35 billion on retail marketing in 2005, up 4.8% from 2004, per PROMO estimates. Retail marketing which includes P-O-P, retail

  • Personal touch

    We’ve spent a lot of ink in our recent print editions and a fair number of bytes for our electronic coverage on the latest technological innovations being

  • Google Wi-Fi Ads Patent in the Works

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application filed by three of Google’s employees back in September of 2004. Google engineers Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen, and Georges Harik are trying to get a patent on…

  • 212 Newsmaker Night with John Battelle: Author of The Search

    I’m looking at John Battelle’s words that I jotted onto my notepad: “ephemeral to the eternal”. He was describing the permanent trace we leave behind as Internet users – how our immediate needs or curious whims are logged..