The news that Microsoft has hired a senior Wal-Mart executive to spearhead a move into retail will not come as much of a shock. These days retailers run the world, and companies like Microsoft, which have typically supplied big retail, are now increasingly drawn to the idea of opening up for themsel...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Nokia Corp. (NOK), Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD), H and R Block (HRB), Kroger Co (KR), Costco Wholesale (COST), FedEx Corp (FDX), Procter and Gamble (PG), Eastman Kodak (EK), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Dow Chemical (DOW), Texas Instruments (TXN), CKE Restaurants (CKR) Here...

At these hard times it is absolutely fascinating watching the largest advertisers making their strategic decisions on how they will handle their marketing, especially now that we are all wondering if internet advertising will still remain healthier than other mediums and if it has any chances of gro...

Nothing, it seems, can stop Google — except the overweening hubris of its employees. Every time Googlers venture outside the Googleplex to demonstrate their charitable embrace of the digitally unfortunate, they end up just reinforcing their snobby superiority. So it went with the search giant'...

Either hell is bracing for a blizzard or mainstream companies are getting desperate. Looks like a major advertiser is actually trying to listen to black consumers about the way they're portrayed on TV. You gotta read this one. P&G solicits advice from consumers on pulling ads from MTV, BET By Linda ...

Have you ever been asked which is more powerful, the eye or the ear? Probably not, because the answer is obvious. I???ll bet that deep down inside, you believe the eye is more powerful. Call it "visual chauvinism," if you......

Filed under: Daytime, Brothers and Sisters, Emmys It was big news when As the World Turns , CBS and Procter & Gamble's 52-year-old daytime drama, presented a gay love story between two men. When Luke Snyder (Van Hansis) admitted to Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann) that he loved him, it was a major s...

Filed under: Products and services, Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp. (TGT), Procter and Gamble (PG) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) are in this one together, and we're not talking a battle for retail supremacy here. The two mega discount retailers face an ongoing patent la...