The airline industry has been challenging the Transportation Department's rule that airlines have to advertise the total cost of a ticket in fare ads. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the industry's challenge once again, in refusing to hear the case. The industry was trying yet again to overturn the federal requirement that airlines must clear up consumer confusion by simply stating what a ticket will cost after all fees and taxes are applied in any advertisements.

Ebay is rebranding its Shopping.com affiliate network as the eBay Commerce Network as it looks to leverage the parent brand and distance the site from its roots as a price comparison site. It will be the only network that allows merchants to advertise products through exclusively available ad sites on eBay's marketplace as well as other publisher sites on the network.

The 550-horsepower Camaro has been drawing deep crowds to the Javits Center's somewhat-isolated North Hall since the show opened its doors to the public last week. But it's not alone. And Ford has a 1,200-horsepower version of the Mustang specially tuned by Las Vegas-based Shelby American. Ford is counting down to April 2014, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the original American pony car.

Blogger Vani Hari has been trying to get consumers in Chicago to sample the U.K. version of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. But it's a stunt. That's because the U.S. version of the product uses artificial dyes. The Monday "taste test" was to prove that the two versions taste the same by handing out tiny cups of the U.K version. Only about 10 people tried; most agreed. But she got the right kind of attention: earned media.

General Motors has confirmed that it's shopping for more globally orientated creative ideas for its luxury Cadillac brand. Fallon is defending, but GM is also looking at Interpublic's Campbell Ewald, which was Chevrolet's agency for a long time. The GM division is also looking at Omnicom Group and Fallon's Publicis Groupe siblings. The brand spends nearly $250 million in media annually.

Does Google have egg on its face? The company used an image of labor activist Cesar Chavez on its logo on Easter Sunday. People got really angry thinking the only famous activist with that name is deceased Venezuelan chief Hugo. Or they wonder why Julio Cesar Chavez is there and what does Easter have to do with boxing.

With 120% annual growth for the last 10 years, China has become the world's second-largest e-tail market, estimated to be worth some $210 billion in revenues. McKinsey, in its "China's e-tail Revolution: Online Shopping as a Catalyst for Growth" report, said around 90% of Chinese e-retail happens on virtual marketplaces involving online storefronts on eBay and Amazon-type sites like PaiPai, Taobao and Tmall.

Mad Ave is back. After having lost its cachet as an ad town to CP&B, Fallon, Goodby Silverstein and Partners, Wieden + Kennedy, and many others, New York is back, thanks to expertise in digital and social marketing. "For agencies our size, the whole area of digital, social and content creation is exploding," said Steve Laughlin, chief executive at Laughlin Constable, an agency based in Chicago and Milwaukee that expanded to New York in 2009 through a merger with Partners & Jeary.

Spire Capital Partners is trying to sell its 60% stake in Just Marketing Inc. (JMI) Is this related to Just Marketing founder Zac Brown's dalliance with IndyCar? Spire purchased 60% of Zionsville, Ind.-based JMI in 2008. Brown, the founder and CEO, and still owns 20%, as does advertising agency WPP. He is a candidate to replace Randy Bernard as CEO of the open-wheeled auto racing series.

Singapore writer Chris Reed explodes over Burger King's new nuclear ad. The new burger ad is definitely bad timing, but probably is also just in poor taste. Bad timing because of the tension in Korea and threats of nuclear war. In any case the new ad touts BK's burger by suggesting its taste is thermonuclear (there's a nuke detonation backdrop).