Apple Music is even on Android now, so it's time for Apple's Beats Music to go. Emails going out to Sonos users, saying Apple Music support is coming soon, also says the Beats Music shutdown will happen Nov. 30. That's a little over a year after Apple completed its acquisition of the music company, and five months since its replacement first appeared on the scene.

For a lot of people, it's phones, not cars, that drive purchase passion. That's according to a survey of 1,199 people in China, Denmark, Germany, and the U.S. The survey, by strategy agency Frog, polled people across all ages in the four countries to examine whether there might be an "end of car culture" in the coming decades. The results find that 37% of car-owning individuals said they do not think their car is essential, and 29% also said they don't expect to own a car beyond the next 10 years.

Despite creeping up two cents per gallon as refinery maintenance reduced availability in some parts of the country, gasoline prices remain low by recent standards, which has helped feed a boom in sales of trucks and utility vehicles. Drivers continue to benefit from substantial discounts as prices drop to the lowest price for this same date since 2006, according to AAA.

Is Starbucks laughing all the way to the bank because of red cup-gate? Maybe, but it is certainly a testament to the strength of Starbucks as a brand that people actually care about their cups, analysts say. Says David Lemley of Seattle's Retail Voodoo, a brand-strategy and creative-marketing company, "I think Howard Schultz and his team are sitting back in their chairs and high-fiving each other, 'cause they're the good guys and buzz is buzz."

For the price of a Ferrari, you could get a sports car that flies well, and looks good, with a sports-car interior, to boot. Launched in 2006, Icon makes the A5, as it's called, and which recently got its certification of airworthiness from the FAA. Icon says it already has some 1,500 deposits for the plane, available next year, and that the price will eventually drop to $197,000 for a base model. The $197,000 plane is designed to be very easy to fly. And it handles land or water.

McDonald's France's creation of a multi-channel Internet site, "280.tv" to promote the return of the ever-popular (in France) Le 280 Burger, which refers to the 280-gram size. The 280.tv program, via DDB, is "280 TV channels dedicated to the 280." Visitors to the site can access a guide to all 280 channels-each with its own theme but with the same visual of a rotating 280 burger-or press up or down buttons to move sequentially through the channels. Each has a different musical theme.

DDB Worldwide has hired Coca-Cola's Wendy Clark to lead its North America operation. She is to start in January. Atlanta-based Clark, who is currently the president of sparkling brands and strategic marketing in North America at Coca-Cola, will relocate to New York to serve at DDB global headquarters. She replaces Mark O'Brien, who is taking a role at Omnicom as EVP.

Coke, Starbucks, Dove, and India (the nation) are using miniature digital stickers to reward consumers for tweeting out their brand hashtags. Coke, for example, was the first to pay for a custom emoji. When someone tweeted #ShareaCoke, Twitter served two clinking bottle emojis. See more examples at the jump.

Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, and PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi have joined forces, in a way, in a public service announcement supporting American Corporate Partners (ACP), a nonprofit that provides veterans with professional career guidance. In the spot, the two CEOs ask Americans to volunteer on ACP AdvisorNet. In the ad, the two aren't physically in the same place, but speaking in separate frames. At the end, each toasts with their respective brands.

Like many food and CPG manufacturers, Campbell is additives in an effort to make food more like kitchen-made. The company is changing the recipe of its iconic chicken noodle soup. The new version of its chicken noodle soup contains 20 ingredients, most of which can be found in the average home kitchen, compared with 30 of its old version. "We're closing the gap between the kitchen and our plants," said Denise M. Morrison, chief executive of Campbell.