Apple posted revenue below analysts' expectations on Tuesday, as iPhone sales slowed during the run-up to a new model released last week. In the company's fourth fiscal quarter, it earned $28.27 billion and posted a profit of $6.62 billion ($7.05 per share). Revenue increased 39% from the fourth quarter last year, and profit was up 54%.

Major League Baseball had such a tremendous response to its Fan Cave in 2011 that it has decided to do it again in 2012. Supported by national marketing, MLB said that details would soon be forthcoming on how people can enter for an opportunity to apply for the 2012 MLB Fan Cave Dream Job, which entails watching every game during the season at a designated location, plus playing host to athletes, musicians, actresses and models.

Fourteen million dollars gets your brand a year on the exterior of every Spirit Airlines jet, while $196,000 gets you three months of ads on the overhead bins in Spirit's planes, $119,000 for ads on the tray tables or $18,500 for ads on air-sickness bags.

Heineken USA has appointed Olga Osminkina to the position of senior brand director, Heineken Lager. In her new role, Osminkina will report to Laurent Theodore, VP of marketing for Heineken, and will take charge of the overall strategy and sustained development of the flagship brand in the U.S. market.

The Pantry Inc. is unifying its 1,650-plus stores under Kangaroo Express, with one chainwide merchandising and marketing plans.

First, CMO Michael Francis left Target, then Steve Eastman, president Target.com, left the company.

A "bright flight" is bringing younger, educated Americans back to the city from the suburbs to urban areas. And marketers stand to benefit from it.

In an effort to attract the attention of Hispanic shoppers, Old Navy is backing a six-part online mini-novela in which fashion plays an integral part. Called "Stolen Styles" ("Estilos Robados"), the title hints at rivals' efforts to steal the spotlight from the fashionable but spoiled protagonist Isabella, who plays a novela star.

Virgin Galactic has cut the ribbon on its spaceport in New Mexico. Called "Spaceport America," Virgin Galactic's LEED-certified, airport-looking building is also equipped with geothermal heating and cooling, for what it's worth. The official name of the terminal is the "Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space," a moniker announced by Branson's two children while rappelling together from the roof the building. Apparently 150 people have already paid deposits on the $200,000 tickets into space and 430 hold reservations.

Atlantic City is looking for an ad agency. Now that the Alliance for Atlantic City has named former Aramark president Liza Cartmell as CEO, the Alliance is looking to "revitalize, rebrand, and reactivate" Atlantic City as a destination for tourists, per Richard Roth, of Roth Associates, the New York consultancy managing the search.