Advertising

  • Judge throws out LA deal for digitizing billboards
    AP (November 05, 2009)
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge overturned a settlement allowing major outdoor advertising companies to convert more than 800 billboards in Los Angeles into digital displays, but declined to revoke permits already granted for about 100 conversions.
     
  • Judge won't bar new federal tobacco marketing regs
    AP (November 05, 2009)
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal judge ruled Thursday that tobacco companies hoping to block new restrictions on their marketing have little chance of succeeding.
     
  • AT&T sues Verizon over 'map for that' ads
    AP (November 03, 2009)
    ATLANTA (AP) - AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials.
     
  • NY court upholds couple's split, aired on YouTube
    AP (October 20, 2009)
    NEW YORK (AP) - An appeals court has sided with a Broadway mogul in a messy New York divorce that played out on YouTube.
     
  • 'Big Brother 9' champ accused of selling oxycodone
    AP (October 20, 2009)
    BOSTON (AP) - The ninth-season winner of the reality TV show "Big Brother" told a federal agent that he used his $500,000 prize to buy thousands of oxycodone pills and resell them, authorities said.