Although he oversaw the merger of Fiat and Chrysler and also managed their huge turnarounds, Sergio Marchionne made about as much as your dentist. His $307,989 in compensation was about 1% of what Alan Mulally, the CEO of rival Ford Motor Co., took home in stock alone. Marchionne actually earned less than four other executives at Chrysler. Mary Barra, General Motors' new CEO, is expected to earn $14.4 million for 2014.

It was not a big surprise when Floyd Mayweather confirmed that he would stage his scheduled May 3 fight against Marcos Maidana in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where he has had 11 previous fights, but what remains to be seen is whether the title-unification bout will break the box office, Showtime PPV, marketing and overall financial marks that 'Money' set in his previous fight against Canelo Alvarez, which for Mayweather has topped $100M (and still counting).

Samsung is looking for creative people for its "Launching People" UK campaign. The company is calling for two-minute videos: who are you and what do you do? The winner gets to use Samsung's top technology and hang out with a celebrated mentor. Plus there's the chance to take part in a Sky 1 HD series about their big launch.

Graham cracker company Honey Maid is the latest marketer to add diversity to its ad mix. A new ad shows a same-sex couple bottle-feeding their son. The ad also features a Hispanic mother and an African-American father with their three mixed-race children. The people in it are not actors, but real families.

An ad by a group calling itself "Americans for Prosperity" that denounces the Affordable Care Act may have backfired. The Michigan spot features a cancer patient who deems her new health care coverage "unaffordable." The "Detroit News" did some research and found she will actually save more than $1,200 this year with her new plan, whose name she acknowledged.

Staples is shutting 225 stores and moving business to the web. The company said it will have closed the stores by the end of 2015. The company's CEO, Ron Sargent, said that nearly half of its sales are done online anyway. For the fourth quarter ended Feb. 1, total company sales fell 10.6% to $5.9 billion a year ago.

Kentucky-based distillery giant Brown-Forman has tapped design shop Cue to redesign the bottle for El Jimador Tequila, the top-selling tequila in Mexico, to position against the U.S. market; Fallon, meanwhile, is doing work on Tequila Herradura, the holding company's high-end brand.

A lot of "original pricing" Overstock.com lists are not. That was the substance of a California judge's ruling against the online retailer. The other highlights, thanks to Truth in Advertising, which combed through the ruling, are at the jump. Including that it's not really overstock.

McDonald's is launching a premium-price burger called the Bacon Clubhouse that comes with beef or chicken. it's an attempt to right the pricing ship after an overindulgence on Dollar Menus and other budget-priced, brand-equity killers. The company tried something like this in 2011 with the English Pub Burger.

Aereo, which brings broadcast TV via a tiny antenna, is in 13 cities and launched its Austin service at South By Southwest. The timing was either good or bad (PR wise, probably good): the Supreme Court has just decided to take up a dispute between the startup and big broadcasters, who say Aereo is basically charging users $8 a month for stolen content (i.e., without paying license fees.)