Turner, ad firm to pay $2 mln for Boston scare
368653
Turner Broadcasting and a New York marketing firm agreed on Monday to pay $2 million in compensation for a "guerrilla" advertising campaign that sparked fears of terrorism in the Boston area last week.
373318
Another interesting piece about the low-life world of ticket reselling surrounding professional sports in Boston -- particularly the Red Sox ( "StubHub site offers Green Monster seats before Sox do," Feb. 9 ). StubHub seems like an especially crummy bunch. So crummy, in fact, that The Boston Globe will probably stop accepting their advertising business. Right?
148991
Malicious-toolbar distributor pays more than $2 million in federal settlement.
525426
Authorities charged two men on Thursday with planting battery-powered signs promoting an animated cartoon that were mistaken for bombs and caused Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11 attacks.
89580
The loud lefty known for his unabashed love of Yankees history agreed Saturday to an $8 million, two-year contract with Boston that could be worth up to $18 million over two years.
321623
BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- British drug conglomerate GlaxoSmithKline may be angling to enter the US flu-shot market. Free! Sign up here to receive our After the Bell Report e-Newsletter!
367994
Pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. said Wednesday that it will pay the government $2 million to settle a lawsuit related to its purchase of shares of IBP Inc.
326421
Turner Broadcasting System apologized for an outdoor marketing campaign that sparked a day-long security scare in Boston on Wednesday and shut down the city's Charles River while paralyzing traffic.
12754
A deal could be struck by Monday for Turner Broadcasting System Inc. to compensate state and local governments for a panic caused by a marketing stunt, Massachusetts' attorney general said Friday.
710867
The company that made the Bushmaster  rifle used in the 2002 Washington-area sniper killing spree and  a gun shop agreed to pay $2.5 million in damages to the victims  in what lawyers said on Thursday was an unprecedented move by a  gunmaker.
648619
Google Inc. has agreed to acquire in-game advertising company Adscape Media Inc. for $23 million, according to technology site Red Herring, which cited sources familiar with the matter in a report late on Thursday.
84991
The company behind the Dallas Morning News agreed on Monday to hand back $23m (£12.5m) to advertisers after admitting circulation figures for the daily and Sunday editions had been inflated.
383020
utchison Whampoa Ltd., the Hong Kong conglomerate controlled by the billionaire Li Ka-shing, filed with regulators in the United States yesterday to raise as much as $2 billion in an initial
683216
The Jefferies Group, the brokerage firm, has agreed to pay about $9.7 million to settle charges that it gave $2 million worth of gifts, travel and entertainment to equity traders employed by Fidelity Investments to win business, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday.
95790
Lennar Corp. and LNR Property Corp. made big news in Boston last week when they agreed to buy Fan Pier for an estimated $125 million, but the purchase would not be the biggest deal for the Florida team.
492531
Internet search leader Google Inc.  GOOG.O is worth $200, Prudential Equity Group told investors  on Friday, the day after the company published quarterly  results that the broker labeled a "blowout."
547639
The New York Times Co. and Internet job search firm Monster Worldwide Inc. formed an alliance to sell help-wanted advertising, hoping to combine Monster's national brand with the local market penetration of Times Co. newspapers, including The Boston Globe.