Next month, Southwest Airlines will shove into Atlanta, home to the world's busiest airport and hometown of Delta Air Lines. Southwest, which bought Air Tran last year, will try to play up the differences between itself and Delta.

Luxury sales in the West are recovering from the global recession, but at a fraction of the rate of China's sales. China is now the second-largest market in the world for luxury goods, behind Japan, and it could become the largest as early as the end of this year.

Cricket is huge in India. Huge. In fact, mid analysts, brand experts and sports marketing agencies there think the loss of the Indian cricket team in Australia will kill a fifth of its brand endorsement values.

A nugget for marketers in this piece is that in the coming years, a wave of immigration from Africa will create a young professional and working class in the U.S. Immigration policy may favor diversification away from Latin countries and increasing of quotas for non-Latin countries including Africa through such vehicles as the Visa Lottery and other policy instruments, per the story.

Orlando tops QSR's 2011 Growth 40 list, an annual rundown of the nation's top metro areas poised for quick-service growth. It's followed by Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Riverside, Calif.; Austin, Texas; and Las Vegas, and is the only metro among the top six sitting east

"Neuromarketers" are helping brands like Google, Facebook and ITV with medical technology that probes consumers' brains for genuine responses.

The kids of America do not want cars because freedom means being online. General Motors research finds more than half of those surveyed by the company said they would actually rather meet up with their friends in cyberspace than face to face.

Facebook wins the faceoff of the 10 most disliked companies. The list is based on 24/7 Wall Street's review of data from sources like Consumer Reports, JD Power, the MSN/Zogby Poll, ForeSee and the University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index. It also takes in its own analysis of media coverage and the Flame Index (which uses a proprietary algorithm to review more than 12,000 Web sites and ranks companies based on the frequency of negative words.) Also in the mix are views of taxpayers, and Congress.

The U.S. auto industry continues to be one of the drivers of the American job market - in this case, thanks to German manufacturers BMW and Daimler AG.

It's not just Chrysler, Ford and GM any more. Detroit has also become a major engineering center for foreign makers as diverse as Mercedes-Benz and India's Tata Motors. And now, three of the largest Asian makers are stepping up hiring as they expand their Motor City R&D centers.