Karl Greenberg, Jan 21, 2011, 9:45 AM
  • Google Q4 Earnings Benefit From E-commerce New York Times

    Google is getting a lift from e-commerce (the fourth quarter last year was its best online shopping season since 2006) and its mobile platform Android and apps.

    Larry Page, who co-founded the company, will replace Eric Schmidt as CEO in April. Page returns after having stepped down from that spot in 2001. Schmidt will be executive chairman. Read the whole story...

  • Anheuser-Busch Puts Stella Artois In Super Bowl Lineup Advertising Age

    For the first time the company will promote an import beer. And A-B will only air five ads this year, not nine ads as it did last year. The spot for Stella is a 60-second ad, while the other ads will be in the usual format: Clydesdales and Bud Light spots. Read the whole story...

  • NFL Nixes Toyota Ad Showing Football Players Ramming Helmets Reuters

    The NFL censored an ad from Toyota that touts the automaker's safety technology by showing two football players slamming their helmeted heads together.

    The league has gotten a lot of attention because of incidences of concussion among players. The automaker changed the ad after the league complained last fall. "The NFL saw it on 'Monday Night Football' and the next morning we got the call," said Tim Morrison, corporate marketing communications manager for the automaker's U.S. operations. "They weren't happy." Read the whole story...

  • European Luxury Auto Brands Expand Factories As Demand Builds Bloomberg

    Audi, BMW and Daimler AG, the world's leading luxury car brands, will expand factories this year because of record demand from China and the U.S. Audi seeks to beat out BMW as the world's leading luxury automaker. The company plans to bow 13 new models and upgraded vehicles this year. Read the whole story...

  • Vegan Diets More Mainstream Chicago Sun-Times

    In a 2009 survey, advocates at the not-for-profit Vegetarian Resource Group reported about 1% of Americans are vegan. That amounts to one-third of people who report being vegetarians. Vegans, for the uninitiated, are vegetarians who eschew any kind of animal product, be it butter, cheese, milk or ham hocks. The same group found a similar breakdown for Americans aged 8 to 18.

    Kraft Foods reports that it shipped out more Boca Original Vegan Burger Patties and Boca Ground Crumbles last year; the increase was 1%. Read the whole story...

  • EBay's Fashion Chief Moves To Europe Women's Wear Daily

    Miriam LaHage, eBay's top fashion executive, will be general manager of fashion, based in London. Read the whole story...