The WPP Group has outlined plans to dominate the growing global search engine marketing sector with the launch of a new network with 47 offices across the world.

A host of new business and technology-related magazines are hitting the market, thumbing their nose at conventional wisdom that the Internet will stifle print publications.

As much as he would like to recover from the blows his reputation has suffered recently, Dan Rather may not have a chance to work very long on the program that he expected would be his next professional address.

The launch of MTV Networks' Logo has been moved back to June 30 from its original premiere date of Feb. 14, it was announced Thursday by Brian Graden, president of Logo and president of entertainment for MTV, VH1 and CMT.

Just weeks after it won the $270 million Kia Motors of America account, Los Angeles ad agency David & Goliath said its president and chief operating officer, Skip Sullivan, is leaving the company.

By coincidence, two big marketers, Wal-Mart Stores and Eli Lilly & Company, went on the offensive against their critics yesterday with full-page ads in newspapers across the country.

TiVo chief executive Michael Ramsay, perhaps the man most responsible for introducing commercial-zapping digital video recording to television audiences worldwide, will relinquish his CEO title at the company he co-founded eight years ago.

General Motors Corp., which created a stir with the giveaway of 276 Pontiac cars on the Oprah show last year, hopes for a similar buzz in February when the television show "Live with Regis and Kelly" will hand out at least 20 Pontiac minivans.

Young & Rubicam today laid off staffers "across all different departments and levels" in its New York headquarters, a representative of the WPP Group agency confirmed.

A media company owned by billionaire investor Philip Anschutz said Wednesday it will launch a free, six-day-a-week newspaper in the Washington, D.C., area on Feb. 1. The Washington Examiner, a tabloid, will replace three suburban newspapers that Anschutz's Clarity Media Group, bought from Journal Newspapers Inc. last year for an undisclosed sum.