Publicis Ad Executive Sidelined by Gender Diversity Comments

One of the world’s biggest advertising companies has placed a top executive on leave over dismissive comments he made about gender diversity in the advertising industry.

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How Ad Slogans Work

How many times have you been in your car with your radio on, gotten out, and hours later, had some jingle playing in your head? This, my friends, is good advertising. That jingle was so catchy that hours after you had been exposed to it, it still lingered. The same can be said of ad slogans.

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Yahoo’s Sale to Verizon Leaves Shareholders With Little Say

Yahoo’s $4.8 billion sale to Verizon is a complicated beast, showing how different acquisition structures can affect how shareholders are treated. First, let’s say what the Yahoo sale is not. It is not a sale of the publicly traded company.

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HBO Gives ‘Game of Thrones’ an End Date, and Resurrects ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Vinyl” wasn’t worth it anymore, “Game of Thrones” will run for two more seasons, and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” will be back next year.

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Back-Stabbing and Threats of a ‘Suicide Parachute’ at Hershey

HERSHEY, Pa. — One toasty afternoon in mid-July, four 10-year-old boys gave a tour of their home at the Milton Hershey School, a boarding school for at-risk children and one of many gifts bequeathed by the chocolate magnate to the community that bears his name.

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Ripples Through a Dark Sky

Explanation: Sunlight ripples through a dark sky on this Swedish summer midnight as noctilucent or night shining clouds seem to imitate the river below. In fact, the seasonal clouds often appear at high latitudes in corresponding summer months.

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Nishidai Station (Tokyo)

Nishidai Station (西台駅, Nishidai-eki?) is a subway station on the Toei Mita Line in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Toei Subway.

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Yahoo and the Online Universe According to Verizon

Verizon Communications’ $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo has the technology cognoscenti scratching their heads. What does Verizon, the country’s biggest wireless company, see in an internet also-ran? And there are reasons to think history might repeat itself.

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Where a Suitcase Full of Cash Won’t Buy You Lunch

Patrons of Sweetgreen are very particular about their salads. When the company recently removed bacon and sriracha from the menu, customers took to social media to complain.

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A Power Broker Who Wants Labor at the Table, Not on the Menu

WASHINGTON — The person at the center of defusing arguably the most contentious issue facing Democrats on the eve of their convention in Philadelphia was not a Hillary Clinton adviser or even a party operative. It was Lee Saunders, president of the 1.

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