Month: November 2008
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Agencies
M&F Worldwide Income Surges
M&F Worldwide Corp. posted net income of $20.1 million for the third quarter, a surge over net income of $10.1 million in the prior year.
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Mercury Names Anastas Digital Division President
Mercury Media Holdings has named Jonathan Anastas president of its digital division.
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Email
Stupid Translation Watch: Welsh Sign Carries E-mail Auto-Reply
When a government employee in Wales sent an e-mail to a translator with the English-wording of a sign to be translated into Welsh
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Email
Stupid Pinhead Watch: SpamZa Boy Defends Himself
The person behind SpamZa has apparently been trying to post comments on various blogs defending his failed, idiotic scheme to set up a Web site allowing people to input others’ e-mail addresses to be signed up for
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Email
Stupid PR Watch: Counting Obama’s Chickens
As editor of now defunct dot-com trade publication iMarketing News in the late nineties and into 2001, I was forever telling reporters not to write glowing prose about companies that could be a source of embarrassment if the firms were to go belly up.
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Email
AOL Sued for E-mail Ads
A California man has filed a class-action suit against AOL for allegedly including text e-mail ads in the footers of paid subscribers’ outgoing messages.
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Listline e-Newsletter 11/04
Macromark Inc. has been appointed manager of a list of 208,255 names from Instinct Magazine, including 96,051 active subscribers.
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Agencies
Starbucks, Krispy Kreme Give Freebies to Voters
Voting may be a privilege and a civic duty, but this year it can also be delicious.
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Tom Hansen Exits Wunderman for Rivet
Tom Hansen, the executive creative director at Wunderman, resigned last week and will assume the position of managing director at Rivet Chicago later this month.
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Pepsi To Invest $1 Billion in China
PepsiCo plans to invest $1 billion in China over the next four years, one of its fastest growing international markets. The funding marks the largest investment