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Nokia said it would combine its Navteq mapping unit with its location-based services business as the struggling mobile-phone maker continues its strategy overhaul and looks to boost its mobile advertising revenue.

Budget fashion chain H&M said profits fell again in the second quarter of the year as both cotton prices and wages rose.

Nokia, seeking to regain lost ground in the highly competitive mobile-phone industry, unveiled models at the high and the low end in Singapore, including the N9 smartphone.

Microsoft says interactive ads during games and other media will use the Xbox Kinect console’s voice and motion control to keep users’ attention in a way TV ads cannot.

Apples flaggskeppskoncept Apple Store ska komma till Stockholm, erfar tidningen Market.

Volvo Personvagnar rullar på bra i Nordamerika.

Med ett manér lånat från 90-talsklassikern "Baywatch" vill Alecta visa att pengar – fortfarande – mår bra hos bolaget.

Carlsberg Sverige är den första officiella sponsorn till nationalarenan.

Ytterligare en storbank kan vara på väg bort från Stockholms city. SEB bekräftar planerna på att samlokalisera tre verksamheter, bland annat den i centrala Stockholm, och bygga ett nytt SEB-hus i Frihamnen. 

Sony apologized Sunday for a security breach at its online videogame service, and said it couldn't rule out the possibility that credit-card information from 10 million customers might have been compromised.

(TrendHunter.com) This student packaging design by Lama Khayyat for a men's body product is fashionable and slick, perfect for the rugged man. Lama Khayyat was asked to create a product line for men's skincare with a choice...

Köpet av Premier League tros ha kostat uppemot 600 miljoner kronor. Men trots megainvesteringen tappar Viasat nu betal-tv kunder.

Skattjakten Magnum Pleasure Hunt exploderade på webben på onsdagskvällen. ”Vi hann inte ens börja sprida den aktivt”, säger Petter Lublin, ad på Lowe Brindfors som har gjort kampanjen.

Inför Festis 50-års-jubileum introducerar Carlsberg nya slankare flaskor och döper om smakerna. Ett av de ny namnen – "Mr strawberry & Mrs yumberry who met online".

Samsung ska aktivera målgruppen inför lanseringen av flaggskeppsmodellen Samsung Galaxy S II, det är tanken bakom kampanjen Big Bang Galaxy.

Wal-Mart is actively on the hunt for acquisitions in Japan as it focuses on creating greater scale to further reduce its cost base.

Volvo Personvagnar fick på lördagen ett svar från Geely Holding Group om de åsikter som framförts till medier av Li Shufu, som äger Geely och därmed även Volvo PV.

Ford Motor Company CEO Alan Mulally is carefully sidestepping the question of whether Ford intends to design one or more unique vehicle platforms for its Lincoln luxury brand, to distinguish Lincolns from the middle-of-the market Fords.

Consumers in the U.S. gained confidence in November for the first time in three months, raising the odds that an improving job market and increasing wages and stock prices will lift spending.

Social network to invest $450m in a new data centre facility as it seeks to offer quicker download times than rivals and prepares to offer new services.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AdAge.com) -- Google search results are going to start looking more like a catalog, with images of products along with prices and other information on the search page.

Disney's fiscal fourth-quarter profit declined 6.7% as weaker results were reported in the television and theme-parks divisions amid one-time impacts.

MTG inleder ett nordiskt samarbete med elektronikjätten LG. Nu ska Viasat on demand byggas i deras tv-apprater.

Den danska bryggerikoncernen Carlsberg redovisar en oväntat stor vinstökning för tredje kvartalet och höjer prognosen för helåret.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Much of the honored brand work in the seven biggest award shows this year reflected a more expansive definition of "creative," and an industry starting to move beyond the bounds of advertising and toward more meaningful brand ideas.

Oil from the BP spill never came close to most of Florida’s beaches, but tourists seemed to be scared off anyway. Businesses and want restitution for lost revenue.

Absolut vill att fler dricker vodka. I en ny limiterad upplaga kryddad med kaffe och mandel satsar man hårt på designen.

Facebook, Amazon and Zynga invest in a fund to help entrepreneurs develop applications and services for a new era of the social web.

Det tog tre år. Nu är Apple större än Sony Ericsson på mobilmarknaden.Samtidigt närmar sig vd Steve Jobs skapelse branschettan Nokia.

Den finländska mobiltelefonjätten Nokia redovisar en vinst före skatt på 321 miljoner euro för tredje kvartalet. Vinsten var betydligt högre än analytiker räknat med och Nokia tror på en starkare...

Tre svenskar ska sälja in Georgien i Europa - som vinland. I december räknar de med att listas hos Systembolaget.

SVT:s premiär av "Dansbandskampen" krossade TV4:s final av "Dansfeber" på lördagskvällen.

Skådespelaren Mikael Persbrandt tar över stafettpinnen från Carolina Gynning i Onoffs webb-tv-satsning.

Rates for commercial spots during Major League Baseball’s postseason on Fox are up 8 percent from last year, with about 90 percent of the ads sold before the first pitch.

Louis Vuitton, one of the finest if not the ultimate luxurious fashion house, has now dedicated a store entirely to fine jewelry. As the brand has an exquisite French taste in elegance and style, it no…

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Nokia's N8, the manufacturer's ploy to crack the U.S. smartphone market, is seeing early signs that it can grab some attention from Apple, Google and RIM's Blackberry. Well, on YouTube at least.

John Sweeney, who teach courses in both advertising and sports marketing at UNC, shares a few notes on the next steps for the clearly troubled Tiger Woods brand.

Kraftigt lyft för bilförsäljningen. Volvo tog tillbaka förstaplatsen från VW – men tappar marknadsandelar.

Öhman Fondkommission höjer rekommendationen för Nokia till outperform från tidigare underperform. Det framgår av en analys daterad den 1 oktober.

Japan's core consumer price index fell 1% from a year earlier in August, another sign that the country's economy remains mired in deflation.

Gillette's newest shaving system has just one blade, a light plastic handle and a sharply lower price. And it isn't available in the U.S. The Gillette Guard instead will begin hitting stores in India next week.

The Square device snaps into an iPhone and allows you to become a credit card authorizing entrepreneur. No setup fees, no two-year contract — you’re in business.

Procter & Gambles vd Robert McDonald spår att bolaget kommer att prestera ett starkare andra halvår jämfört med det första halvåret i det brutna räkenskapsåret juli-juni 2010/2011.

Apple stämmer Nokia i Storbritannien för patentintrång gällande teknologi för smartphones. Det rapporterar Bloomberg News.

Den brittiska centralbanken, Bank of England, försöker få tillbaka den brittiska ekonomin till en "rimlig" aktivitetsnivå för att sedan kunna höja räntorna igen.Det sade Bank of Englands vicechef Charles Bean i en tv-intervju på måndagen, rapporterar Bloomberg News.

Premiären av SVT:s "Starke man" drog storpublik.

Personal spending in the US is diverging into two distinct categories as strong growth at high-end stores contrasts with continuing difficulties for mass-market, low-price retailers

Google’s YouTube video site is in negotiations with Hollywood’s leading movie studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010, putting it head-to-head with Apple in the race to dominate the digital distribution of film and television content

Finansinspektionen svarar här själv på frågor om HQ Bank och likvidiseringsprocessen. Svaren är publicerade på Finansinspektionens webbplats.

With a Justice Department review finished, the airlines expect to complete their $3 billion merger within weeks.

Carlsberg kartlägger svenskarnas partybeteende i fyra kortfilmer i TV6 under hösten. Great Works har producerat.

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG’s Mini, known for its retro-chic appeal, is targeting an unhip crowd with the Countryman crossover: families. The not-so-mini Mini will have four doors and be the brand’s biggest ever model.

Geely is considering partly repurposing a nearly completed plant in southwestern China to make Volvo cars—part of a turnaround strategy for the Swedish brand.

Swedbank Markets höjer rekommendationen för lastvagnskoncernen Volvo till starkt köp från tidigare köp efter de överraskande starka lastbilsleveranserna i juli.

Fashion retailer Zara, the flagship brand of Spain's Inditex, opens its first collection online next week—years behind its rivals.

Mikael Solberg lämnar sin post som vd och koncernchef för RNB, Retail and Brands, som äger JC, Polarn o Pyret samt Brothers/Sisters.

With the $7.68 billion acquisition Intel becomes a major player in the security software and services market.

Jeans giant Levi Strauss & Co. launched a new brand of denim today aimed at conquering the fast-growing Asian consumer market.

Luxist: Hello Kitty never does anything in a plain or boring way and bottled water is no exception. Fillico is offering Hello Kitty branded water bottles that in addition to the iconic kitty face and prominent cartoon bow also feature Swarovski crystal accents and crown-shaped toppers. There are five colors available, each representing something different: [...]

A possible initial public offering of Internet TV service Hulu would be a significant test for the success of the online streaming video business.

Lars Bonander, marknadschef på Clas Ohlson i Sverige, blir vd för Lagerhaus.

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Paco Underhill knows more about women than most men do. As the founder, CEO and president of Envirosell, he has spent decades methodically studying the habits of consumer behavior. In a world of almost no female CEOs in retail and finance, Mr. Underhill spoke to Ad Age about how designing products and campaigns for women is changing.

Works in progress at Weyerhaeuser, Best Buy and Citigroup show how new products and services can address wider market needs.

Stefan Jacoby har utsetts till ny vd för Volvo Personvagnar, han var tidigare vd för Volkswagen Nordamerika.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Procter & Gamble Co.'s purchase this month of Natura Pet Products took a lot of people by surprise -- some analysts had actually expected that P&G might be closer to divesting its own pet brands rather than acquiring new ones. But it also caught unawares many independent pet-supply retailers who are expressing a dim view of the deal on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

Web users have knocked Facebook's willingness to use their information to sell ads. But the company's practices resemble more accepted forms of database marketing

For bearish investors, one of the biggest puzzles of the last few months has been the strength of consumer spending. In an era when the unemployment rate approaches 10%, where is the money coming from? Some even offered the theory that consumer spending was being juiced by foreclosures. The idea is ...

Telemundo, in an expansion of the product placement concept, is striking deals with manufacturers to integrate original products, like jewelry, in its programming.

Millions of Twitter users will see advertisements for the first time after the Californian company took the first big step towards commercialising its service. The move, the most fundamental change in the site’s four-year history, has excited advertisers but irked many of its 50m users

Confidence among U.S. small businesses fell in March to the lowest level since July 2009 as executives grew more concerned about earnings and sales, a private survey found.

Apple is tightening its already firm grip on software for the iPhone and its other devices, as shown by its recent changes to the rules that outside programmers must follow.

Twitter plans to announce a new advertising service called Promoted Tweets, the four-year-old company's first significant attempt at turning its microblogging into a profitable business.

Now that Chinese automaker Geely has agreed to purchase Volvo from Ford, will Palm be the next downtrodden Western brand to be swooped up by a Chinese buyer? That’s a possibility now that the creator of the Pre smartphone is, according to this Bloomberg News story and other news reports, seeking ...

(TrendHunter.com) For the week of March 1st, these are the Top 50 trends, which include Optical Illusion Body Painting, Digital Hairtography and Jellyfied Office Pranks. The rankings are based on hundreds of thousands of…

Virgin Money says it will charge customers a fee for current accounts when the firm launches banking services later this year.

For George Clooney, Sandra Bullock and others vying for Academy Awards, success in Sunday's ceremony may well represent the peak of their careers. But if they miss out...

Several signs suggest that, contrary to the views of some economists, we may not be heading for another tumble into the recessionary basement.

Google is acquiring DocVerse, a technology start-up that allows people to collaborate on Microsoft Office files online, for about $25 million.

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Unilever has appointed longtime general manager Keith Weed as its chief marketing officer effective April 1, succeeding the outgoing Simon Clift, who announced his departure last month.

Volvo wants to know how you'd like to see the S60 misbehave in a commercial. So do we, so tell us.

The presence of two media brands -- the BBC and BET -- on this week's Top 10 Most Tweeted Brands chart raises some interesting questions about why people tend to tweet about brands.

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Kraft has moved its iconic Macaroni & Cheese brand to Crispin, Porter & Bogusky from DraftFCB Chicago following a review. This is Crispin's first Kraft account. The business had been with FCB since 1998.

Instead of simply appropriating everything that we know about branding for digital media, it may be time to focus on how digital media change what we know about branding.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) --Despite becoming the most-watched event in TV history, this year's Super Bowl did not deliver positive buzz for every marketer that advertised during the game. The Colts lost in an upset, but brands such as Ford, Budweiser, kgb, Electronic Arts and Volkswagen also took a beating.

Drug makers are pursuing a consumer base in markets like Asia and Latin America, where many pay out of pocket for medicines but often cannot afford expensive brand-name drugs.

Handset maker Nokia and chip maker Intel said they are launching a mobile operating system which can run on a number of electronic devices including smart phones, laptops and TV sets.

The possible salvation of the Swedish company is due to arrive in an unlikely guise in coming weeks if, as expected, Chinese carmaker Geely buys it from Ford for just under $2bn

A look at what can be done when your brand marketing becomes more about reflecting the reality of your consumers and less about your brand's aspirational identity.

København skal have et nyt brand for at få en bid af kagen, når virksomheder og turister skal vælge, hvor hovedkvarteret eller næste års ferie skal lægges. Og hvis vi skal kunne måle os med Stockholm, skal der satses på andre områder end Den lille Havfrue.

De seneste uger i takt med finanskrisens optrapning har Carlsberg-aktien fået store tæsk. Ifølge AktieUgebrevet er bryggeret med samlet børsværdi på omkring 52 milliarder kroner nu ekstremt undervurderet.

Carlsberg kan se frem til vækst i Rusland, der overgår konkurrenten Inbev, skriver Bloomberg News.

Det var kærlighed ved første hik, da analytikerkorpset i Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. kastede øjnene på Carlsberg. Børshuset har ifølge Bloomberg News indledt dækning af bryggeriet med anbefalingen 'outperform' og et kursmål på 585 kr. Det indikerer et positivt potentiale på 30 pct.