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    1. What earnings reports have revealed about ads

      Explore Boston.com (Feb 16 2012)

      Here are highlights of recent quarterly earnings reports from selected Internet and media companies and what they say about the state of spending on advertising: (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ABC   Yahoo   NBC

    2. Runners-up to Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year

      Explore Boston.com (Dec 20 2010)

      The runners-up to Merriam-Webster's 2010 Word of the Year -- austerity -- with definitions from the publisher's collegiate dictionary and, when applicable, the news event or story that generated the interest in the word: -- Pragmatic (adj.): relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters; practical as opposed to idealistic. U.S. elected officials began to talk about more "pragmatic" solutions to the nation's problems after the Nov. mid (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Barack Obama   CNN   ABC

    3. Dead-on savvy

      Explore Boston.com (Jul 29 2010)

      Just as the Dead collapsed musical boundaries almost from its start in the 1960s, the group shattered many prevailing notions about doing business in the music industry. For the Dead, album sales were secondary to touring revenue. The band cultivated a following by giving things away, allowing fans to create and trade bootleg recordings of live shows. The group bypassed its record label’s promotions department to build its own mailing list. And the Dead encouraged entrepreneurs to co-opt the ban (Read Full Article)