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Chain Calls Gift Card Offer a Scam
Dunkin’ Donuts claims that an e-mail from a Florida firm promising a free $25 gift card in return for a completed survey is a scam. It also appears the
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Open for Business? Not Quite
I’m not greedy. I can live quite comfortably on a mere $5 million a year. So I would be very happy to have just 1% of the ad dollars that are largely wasted on ads like this one from American Express.
It makes one think that such corporations must have summer interns they don’t know what to do with. So they give them a job that requires no experience, training or common sense
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World Wildlife Fund’s Hard S(h)ell
ANIMAL LOVERS EXPECTING to find a panda under their Mother’s Day tree this year surely were disappointed: The World Wildlife Fund de-emphasized its traditional
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Pont Named 2006 List Leader
Stefanie Pont, founder and managing partner of Pont Media Direct, is the DMA’s List Leader of the Year. During her two-plus decades in the industry, Pont
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Ford, Kellogg Put Fusion Premiums in Cereal Boxes
Ford Motor Co. has taken Fusion beyond the dealership lot and into a cereal box.
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NBA Courts Europe with Basket Jam
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is taking its hoop action and marketing partners Champion, Nike, FootLocker, EA Sport, Spalding and Sprite to eight cities in four European countries in its first-ever NBA Basket Jam, a basketball festival that features interactive basketball games and entertainment activities.
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Loose Cannon: It’s Summertime! Let’s Ride the (You)Tube!
Readers who spend enough time on the beach this summer will probably see the following sentiment stretched across the front of a t-shirt: “Old age and treachery will overcome youth and idealism every time.” Today’s exercise in youth and idealism comes from Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the twenty-something founders of YouTube.com.
For the uninitiated, YouTube is an online video-file sharing service. Would-be Martin Scorseses can upload video clips of pretty much anything, ranging from elaborately produced fantasies to random clips captured on a mobile phone’s video card. These can then be viewed and rated by anyone logging onto the site.
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FTC Settles with Healthcare-Scam Telemarketers
Canadian telemarketers have settled charges by the Federal Trade Commission that they sold phony healthcare discount plans and bogus credit card loss protection to U.S. consumers.
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For Google and Lane’s Gifts, a Click-Fraud Settlement
An Arkansas judge on Friday approved the $90 million settlement proposed by Google in a click-fraud class-action lawsuit brought by search marketers claiming the major search engines knowingly charge for clicks that did not come from genuine customers.