Volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica printed back in 1987, are shown on a desk on March 15.

Avocados from Mexico plans to open its spring marketing campaign with six weeks of broadcast ads starting March 19 in eight U.S. cities.

"It was announced that after 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print, instead focusing on its online The book-form of Encyclopaedia Britannica has been in print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768.

Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free online rival Wikipedia made an irony-free note of that fact.

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to an audience at a town hall meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012.

An upbeat Rick Santorum barreled into Puerto Rico on Wednesday in pursuit of another campaign-bending victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate is conceded.

It's not just startups that are trying to push what's possible with mobile advertising - the Gap recently completed an ad campaign combining traditional transit ads with geo-fencing technology.

"It's the latest step in our evolution from the print publisher we were, to the creator of digital learning products we are today." The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been primarily an online product for almost 20 years, will cease to be available in book form for the first time in 244 years when the current stock runs out.

The Chicago-based company announced Tuesday that the encyclopedia won't be available in book form for the first time in 244 years.

CHICAGO, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- ICAP Patent Brokerage, a division of ICAP plc and the world's largest intellectual property brokerage firm and organizer of ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions, is offering for sale a patented technology for a cloud-based solution for secure, threaded, and cost effective two-way SMS text messaging services ... (more)