Turner, ad firm to pay $2 mln for Boston scare
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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.
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Boston Scientific Corp. wants to get deeper under your skin. Lawrence C. Best, its chief financial officer, says the company will make more than $2 billion worth of deals over the next two years, many of them in technologies that play a much more invasive medical role, compared to Boston Scientific's traditional products.
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The federal government has agreed to pay an Oregon lawyer $2 million to settle part of a lawsuit he filed after the FBI misidentified a fingerprint and wrongly arrested him in the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings.
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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.
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Chemicals maker to repurchase $2B of its shares.
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A television network's marketing campaign went badly awry on Wednesday, causing a day-long security scare in Boston that closed bridges, shut major roads and put hundreds of police on alert.
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Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay the full cost -- around $1 million -- of a security alert in Boston triggered by battery-powered cartoon advertising signs for one of its shows, The Boston Globe reported on Friday.
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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.
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THE REGION The Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents newsroom, advertising, and other employees at The Boston Globe, approved a four-year contract that ties pay raises to revenue increases. The 364-194 vote comes nearly two months after union members rejected an offer that tied raises to revenue but excluded revenue of Boston.com, the paper's online affiliate. The new contract includes online ...
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If you're a Red Sox season ticket-holder hoping to witness the team's second World Series title in four years, brace yourself: It's going to cost you.
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Firm is in hot seat for selling subprime securities to a Massachusetts city.
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Clear Channel Communications said it had sued a unit of Providence Equity Partners to force a completion of a $1.2 billion purchase of 56 television stations.
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Alan Leventhal's Midas touch didn't work on one property in Boston. The Boston real estate executive and his firm Beacon Capital Partners LLC, which has made a bundle buying and selling big commercial properties such as the John Hancock Tower, unloaded a loser yesterday for $19 million less than it paid for it.
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As usual, it was the little guys, the wrong guys, in handcuffs yesterday. The bottom line, as the corporate types like to measure these things, is that the Turner Broadcasting guerrilla marketing assault on Boston was a fabulous success. Suddenly a no-name cartoon about a talking box of French fries is the talk of the town from coast to coast. ...
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The BBC's international website will carry advertisements to help plug a Â£2bn budget shortfall.
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Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners said on Sunday a lawsuit brought by radio operator Clear Channel Communications Inc. to force it to complete a $1.2 billion deal was "baseless."  Marking the latest deal to turn nasty amid the credit cru...
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Boston Scientific Corp. has reserved another $101 million to defend itself against lawsuits over defibrillators made by Guidant Corp., the heart-device maker it acquired for $27 billion last year. The Natick medical-device company has set aside $485 million to pay for legal costs related to Guidant, it said in a filing this week, up from $384 million in ...