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McManus: Lies, damned lies and advertising
Los Angeles Times
American taxpayers are paying to send their own jobs to foreign countries."
But the widely broadcast anti-Obama ad, paid for by a conservative group
called Americans for Prosperity, is highly misleading — a slick pastiche
of untruths, half-truths and ...
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Facebook Highlights: The beginning of paid social networking?
Digitaltrends.com
Last December Facebook began offering paid coupon news feed items, and
claims click-through rates for those items appearing in news feeds are five
to ten times higher than standard ads. The message is clear: Facebook users
pay more attention to their ...
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Would you pay to promote a Facebook post?
Washington Post
Opening the option of paid posts to the average user is certainly one way
to generate new revenue. On the other hand, I have a little bit of trouble
imagining what I, as a regular user, would want to pay to promote in ads to
my own friends.
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Brown pulls ad doctor from panel
Stockton Record
In a statement previously provided by the campaign, Porter said she had not
been paid to appear in the ad and got involved in the campaign as an unpaid
volunteer. "My views on Proposition 29 are no different than many others -
including those in the ...
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South Florida bloggers turn hobby into paying jobs
Sun-Sentinel
Although she only generates about 12000 page views per month, the blog is
an everyday job, and she has an average of five to seven sponsors who pay
for ad space every month. "A lot of fashion designers are starting to
notice the huge influence bloggers ...
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Boca Raton police charge investment company boss with mortgage fraud
Orlando Sentinel
By Marc Freeman, Sun Sentinel The ads on Haitian and Spanish radio stations
in 2010 and 2011 promised relief for desperate South Florida homeowners who
faced the loss of their properties to foreclosure. Nationwide Investment
Firm Corp., which operated ...
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Business lobby supporting Cuomo with TV ad campaigns files late data; hires
ex ...
The Republic
In addition, The Manhattan-based group also reported tax records that show
it paid $9.7 million to ASGK Public Strategies, a public relations firm
based in Chicago that was founded by David Axelrod and purchased in-state
ads.
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Bribery Charges Added In Sweetwater District Probe
KGTV San Diego
"If the ad is as described, I'm not happy hearing it because I do think
that it could potentially jeopardize the progress of the case," said Smyth.
"This is paid advertising directed against our clients in violation of the
rules of professional conduct ...
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Facebook tests pay to promote post feature as skepticism about its ipo grows
Northern Voices Online
The company has been making most of its revenues from advertisers, who
often post their ads on its page to easily grab the attention of users.
Facebook has recently announced another surprising move to bring cash into
its pocket.
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Facebook Tests User Option to 'Highlight' Status Updates
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Facebook is testing out a "promoted status update" feature
in New Zealand, where users could pay to highlight their own posts. "We're
constantly testing new features across the site," a Facebook spokeswoman
said in an email.
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Canadian doctors warn fee cuts, pay inequalities will spur exodus
National Post
Related Ontario doctors face wage cuts, clawbacks in government proposal
Analysis: Doctors costing more despite Ontario ads boasting of millions of
dollars 'saved' Canadian doctors still make dramatically less than US
counterparts: study From the ...
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I paid too much for my dental practice
Dental Economics
By Earl Douglas When a dentist buys a practice and things don't work out as
well as hoped, the person usually concludes that he or she paid too much
for the practice. But in analyzing nearly 1000 practices over the years, I
discovered that the real ...
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Political Insider: Developer's bid to jettison affordable units hits wall
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
Cambio co-owner Luis Ricardo Florez said the body massage ads do not
mention "performing sexual services." He said Munoz has a "vendetta"
against the newspaper and that despite his moral outrage, the freeholder
has placed paid political ads in the ...
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Soros Spurs Debate: Where To Spend It?
Wall Street Journal
Many Democratic donors remain reluctant to fund liberal super PACs and
their TV ads, partly because President Barack Obama opposed such groups
until recently. Mr. Soros has long avoided giving to groups that specialize
in paid campaign advertising.
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Sen. Brown Blames Negative Ads for Shrinking Lead
ABC6OnYourSide.com
The Brown campaign blames negative ads against the incumbent, paid for by
special interest groups, for the democrats shrinking lead. "When you get
hit with $6 million worth of [negative] ads...you don't just sit there and
let them hit you over and over ...
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Facebook testing whether you'll pay to ensure friends see your status
updates
VentureBeat
Facebook is testing a feature in which users can choose to pay money to
highlight their status updates for their friends. The feature is fairly
simple: add a status update just like you would ordinarily, then pay to
have it highlighted.
<http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/11/facebook-testing-pay-to-show-friends-status-updates/>
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Elk Grove Physician Kicked Off State Advisory Panel After TV Ad
CBS Local
In a statement previously provided by the campaign, however, Porter said
she had not been paid to appear in the latest industry-funded ad and was
volunteering for the campaign. "My views on Prop. 29 are no different
than many others — including those ...
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Chamber Continues to Mislead on Health Care Law
FactCheck.org
Ads attacking Sen. Bill Nelson and former Rep. Alan Grayson claim that the
health care law "could" cause 20 million people to lose employer-paid
health care coverage. The truth is that might happen under a very
pessimistic scenario, according to the ...
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Richland man sentenced for prostitution
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
He responded to escort service ads on a website and made arrangements to
meet young women at a Kennewick hotel and twice paid to have sex with three
girls. Prosecutors also say the organizer, Melissa Marie Salsbury,
recruited high school girls to earn ...
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The Blurry Lines Of Google's Paid Links Policy
WebProNews
The links I looked at do not include the nofollow attribute, which would
prevent them from passing PageRank: The links marked as "ads" at the
top of category pages do include the nofollow atribute. The category page
above has a PageRank of 5.
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How Some 21st Century Shows Are Better at 21st Century Tech
The Atlantic Wire
When The Atlantic Wire took a look at shows we thought portrayed 21st
Century tech in a very 21st Century manner, we explained the phenomenon in
terms of literary value and practicality, but there's another factor at
play here: Advertising.
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Balance The Pros And Cons Before Buying High-Yield Telefonica
Seeking Alpha
Fiscal year dividends are split between a November payment and the balance
paid in the following May. The €1.30 cash dividend divided into the
current €11.06 share price for a current yield of 11.7%. For the US
traded American Depository shares - ADS ...
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The new business model for bands
Isthmus
... ads — another one is for a hospital in Texas — and occasionally
landing a clip on a mainstream TV show. During the 2009 Rose Bowl, the
University of Southern California marching band covered a Youngblood song.
That paid $800 from the TV rights.
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Ontario Medical Association Ads Against Province's Cuts for Doctors
News Talk 1290
This weekend you might see ads on TV and in the newspaper from the Ontario
Medical Association in regards to recent labour negotiations with the
province, displaying their side of the dispute. Ontario's Health Minister
and London MPP Deb Matthews has ...
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Pro-GOP Chamber Of Commerce Ad Extols Bipartisanship, Implies Obama
Re-Election
ThinkProgress
By Josh Israel and Scott Keyes on May 11, 2012 at 5:23 pm The Chamber of
Commerce has released 21 new May 2012 "independent" political ads —
20 of which either attack Democrats or praise Republicans. But while most
of the ads take partisan swipes at ...
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