March 2009

Restaurants on wheels have already come a long way, as upscale pizza, ice-cream and dessert trucks have joined the ranks of the Good Humor man and the hot-dog stand. Now the taco truck — a longstanding institution on the streets of LA — is getting a whole new spin thanks to Twitter and the infusion of some Korean spice.

Launched last fall,

LONDON - Mars has forced the digital agency Poke to shut down an unauthorised website that encouraged users to create their own logo for the chocolate bar Snickers.

Consumers could type whatever slogan they wanted on to the site, at www.snckrz.com, and the words would appear on the logo on the front of a...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Companies and celebrities ranging from Arsenal football club to actress Scarlett Johansson filed a record number of "cybersquatting" cases in 2008 to stop others from profiting from their famous names, brands and events, a United Nations agency said on Sunday.

Web sites in dispute in 2008 included references to Madrid's 2016 Olympics...

Outdoor media such as large billboards and transit ads is the second most effective way for financial institutions to re-build consumer confidence, behind television campaigns, according to new research by APN Outdoor.

Almost half of the respondents in the national study, which was conducted by Edentify and commissioned by APN Outdoor, said they had lost...