| 48 killed, hundreds injured in Argentinian train crash At least 48 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday in a commuter train crash at one of the three busiest stations in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, BBC reported, quoting the... | |
| Several killed in Argentinian train crash Several people were killed and about 550 injured Wednesday in a commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, BBC reported.
Local reporters said they saw 12 bodies removed... |
| Time Warner, ESPN work to resolve transmission issues Follow this company said it is working closely with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to make sure next Monday's Kansas-Oklahoma State game isn't disrupted. Time Warner apologized to... |
| iPad and Kindle Fire: the top technical problems share some of the same technical issues but also face their own unique challenges, according to a study out yesterday from FixYa. Analyzing the array of problems seen by site users who own one of... |
| Twitter restores popular features to its iPhone, Android apps reviving a few "high-demand" features that were jettisoned from the previous versions, as described yesterday in Twitter's official blog. Both apps have brought back the swipe... |
| Apple vs. Facebook: Why users are the losers commentary At first glance, it looks like Apple really loves Twitter. The reality, however, is that it hates Facebook. It sure seems that way, at least. Apple's distaste for Facebook became... |
| New Microsoft ad aims knife at Google's jugular New video attempts to accuse Google of Googlighting. Should you be unfamiliar with this term, it allegedly means an ad agency selling productivity software in its spare... |
| Exhibitor Cinemark Reports Lower Fourth-Quarter Earnings NEW YORK - Movie theater operator Cinemark Holdings on Wednesday reported lower fourth-quarter earnings that were cut in half amid mixed revenue trends affected by the lower U.S. box... |
| Disney to Release 'Centenarian Who Climbed Out The Window' in Nordic Territories producing. Walt Disney will bow the film in the Nordic territories and has an option for the international rights for the finished film. The deal was brokered at the European Film Market in Berlin... |
| MY Tupelo Takes Ukrainian Mass Dancing Format 'Go Dance!' For U.S. , in which teams of hundreds of dancers from different cities compete to be named their country's dance capital. Ukrainian producers Studio Kvartal-95 and Russia's Star Media Group inked... |
| Sudan: Security Officers Confiscate Newspapers Khartoum - Sudanese security service officers on Sunday February 19, 2012 raided the printing sections of two Arabic dailies, Al-Tayar and Alyoum Altali, and confiscated all copies of the two... |
| msnbc.com on your phone Get all the best political cartoons as soon as the cartoonists draw them. Msnbc.com Cartoons offers cool features and is a real-time cartoon news feed from more than 900... |
| Murdoch job for Brookfield Construction giant Brookfield Multiplex has consolidated its position as a leading builder of hospitals in Western Australia after being picked by St John of God Health Care as managing contractor... |
| New York Times review: In Mob Museum, Las Vegas embraces its bad guys of old Members of the San Diego Police Museum Association arrive in a 1932 ';paddy wagon'; during the grand opening of The Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Tuesday February 14, 2012. The museum, in a... |
| FM Radio Spells Change, Success for Mideast Women RAMALLAH, Feb 22, 2012 (IPS) - Nisreen Awwad moves closer to the microphone as she signs off to her listeners, the words "Nisaa FM: music, change, success" displayed prominently over her... |
| Facebook readying new premium ads? (Credit: GigaOm) Facebook is expected to launch an upgrade next week to its premium ads program that will target the friends of advertisers' fans. The new ads, which will launch... |
| Flickr to get slicker in upcoming makeover (Credit: Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET) With Instagram, Google+, Picasa, and Facebook breathing down its neck, Flickr has had to play catch-up to stay in the photo game lately. Flickr's... |
| Google's HUD glasses expected to go on sale this year (Credit: Google) More rumblings about Google's Heads-Up Display Glasses materializing sometime in the near future were heard today. According... |
| Jon Friedman's Media Web: Jeremy Lin, ESPN and the racist media NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Jeremy Lin phenomenon reinforces a notion that the sports media can flop when they try to go beyond telling us the final... |
| Actors Equity Endorses SAG-AFTRA Merger The national Council of Actors Equity voted unanimously Tuesday night to endorse the planned merger of SAG and AFTRA. The vote by the nearly century-old union, which represents performers in live... |
| Magic Johnson plans a cable TV venture More than 20 years after he last played pro basketball, former Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson is ready for a whole new game: running his own TV network. The Hall of Famer-turned-businessman... |
| Shake Shack is Now a New York Times Starred Restaurant dining critic sits, being used to evaluate a fast food restaurant. Even if that fast food restaurant is one of New York City’s most ballyhooed and fiercely debated--if not, the most of... |
| Premature airing of political ads lands radio network in hot water The premature airing of campaign advertisements for Peter Dunne's United Future Party have seen The Radio Network become the latest broadcaster to be referred to police for alleged breaches of the... |
| Forbes Earnings Preview: Washington Post Company when the company reports its fourth quarter results on Friday, February 24, 2012. Although Washington Post reported profit of $9.42 a year ago, the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of... |
| Judge: Serve the miscreant via Facebook (Credit: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) The distance between the poke and pokey is narrowing all the time. No, I'm not referring to Gumby's horse, who would surely never transgress legally.... |
| New Yorker's cover might be most digital ever (Credit: Sree Sreenivasan/CNET) In almost nothing in life is the most venerable institution also the most forward thinking. But, in the world of magazines, "The New Yorker" comes pretty... |
| MegaUpload founder released on bail cars , and other possessions belonging to DotCom were seized. Since then, two judges in New Zealand had denied his previous requests for bail. The judge who heard DotCom's request today,... |
| No extradition showdown for MegaUpload this week (Credit: 3News.co.nz) All the build up to an extradition hearing in the MegaUpload case was supposed to culminate with a court fight today in New Zealand. But all we get is another bail hearing... |
| Comcast launches subscription movie service The cable TV provider's Xfinity Streampix is designed to give Web access to its films and TV shows, following HBO Go's lead in competing with Netflix. Comcast announced a new subscription... |
| Magic Johnson to launch TV network via Comcast The cable channel, Aspire, will focus on what Magic Johnson called positive, uplifting images of African Americans and will offer opportunities for black people in the entertainment... |
| Entertainment, Other Stocks End Flattish After Dow Briefly Exceeds Key Mark Milestone NEW YORK - U.S. stocks, including shares of entertainment conglomerates, finished Tuesday's trading day flattish after initial gains that pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average index above... |
| Italy's RAI Requests Extension of Television Fee to Computer Owners ROME – Troubled Italian state-owned broadcaster RAI on Tuesday asked the government to extend responsibility for paying the annual "canone" obligation television owners have to owners... |
| Paramount Sues to Stop New 'Godfather' Book From Mario Puzo Estate , the son and executor of his late father's estate, and is seeking an injunction precluding any further alleged copyright and trademark... |
| Italy Court Sides With News Corp. in Fight With Berlusconi's Mediaset ROME – A Milan court said Tuesday that it had ruled in favor of News Corp.’s Italian subsidiary Sky-Italia in an arbitration case related to soccer World Cup coverage against Italian... |
| Why Michael Jackson's Former Manager Is Fighting With the Estate 's life are the subject of dueling lawsuits filed Friday on the part of both the Michael Jackson estate and the late singer's former... |
| 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Sounds Completely Different at the Cosmopolitan Registering allows you to sign up for any of our free emails, participate in polls or comment on stories. If you are trying to get to subscriber-only content, or wish to receive weekly copies of Ad... |
| MOM? Malt-O-Meal Is Going Maternal Breakfast-food marketer Malt-o-Meal is renaming itself "MOM Brands" as part of a corporate rebranding effort aimed at bringing more exposure to its growing stable of breakfast offerings. ... |
| Kraft, General Mills Hold the Line on Marketing in Tough Environment Register here for free. Register so that you can sign up for our free e-mails, participate in our polls, comment on stories, share stories and generally keep connected to the leading source of... |
| Stop the Lin-sanity and Build Lasting Value for Your Brand Instead Apple ". Okay. Gotcha. Then, out of nowhere, a few years ago, quite a few clients started to, er, think different. "I want brand fame," they say now. Whenever I hear this, I'm... |
| Jimmy Smith on Mentors, Racism and the Future of Advertising caught up with a number of marketing and advertising executives for a Q&A . The first in the series is Jimmy Smith, chairman-CEO-chief creative officer of the relatively new Amusement Park... |
| Content Isn't Branding: Why Chrysler's 'Halftime in America' Needs a Second Act Registering allows you to sign up for any of our free emails, participate in polls or comment on stories. If you are trying to get to subscriber-only content, or wish to receive weekly copies of Ad... |
| Bart Simpson LOVES The Wall Street Journal and Other Reminders as 'The Simpsons' Hits Our Top 10 TV Check-In Chart Register here for free. Register so that you can sign up for our free e-mails, participate in our polls, comment on stories, share stories and generally keep connected to the leading source of... |
| Comcast Sets Four New Digital Networks Comcast is making good on its promise to beef up minority involvement in its cable division, though they're doing so with digital networks instead of terrestrial cable channels. It's not... |
| Yet Another Streaming Service: Comcast's Xfinity Streampix All right, it's more or less raining new streaming services at this point. Comcast is the latest company to unveil a new streaming VOD client, hot on the heels of competitor Verizon a scant two... |
| Magic Johnson starting TV network targeting blacks BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Earvin ';Magic'; Johnson is launching a basic cable television network targeting black viewers with positive, uplifting images of blacks.The... |
