News Briefs

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

CHUCK E. CHEESE: restaurants have voluntarily pulled the Manley disco ball toy from its shelves after an investigation into whether the toy may have sparked a fire that killed two Jacksonville, FL, children this week. Chuck E. Cheese has been ...

Whirlpool Cuts 4,500 Jobs

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Whirlpool Corp. will slash 4,500 Maytag jobs by the end of 2007 as the appliance maker begins to integrate the Maytag brand into its operations following its merger in March.

Valueclick / aQuantive

Last week, when the announcement of a merger between acquisition happy Think Partnership and iLeadMedia hit the wires, talks between two much larger companies considering a merger were breaking down. The potential merger...

Image Search

The use of search engines in locating information has become so central to our daily lives that it is hard to imagine a world where one cannot simply “google” driving directions just before heading out to the car. This availability of...

CPX Interactive Serves Over 25 Billion Impressions

NEW YORK, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- CPX Interactive, a subsidiary of Buds Inc., announces traffic results for the first quarter of 2006. CPX Interactive served more than 25 billion impressions on over 3,000 sites the first three months of 2006...

40% of Adults in U.S. Play Electronic Games

According to the findings of an AP-AOL Games poll, 40% of adults in the U.S. play electronic games on a computer or console. As expected, men, younger adults, and minorities are more likely to play video games than...