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 to Boston-area authorities for a "guerrilla" advertising campaign that sparked a terrorism scare 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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Eight months after Boston Scientific Corp. won a bidding war for heart-device maker Guidant Corp. , loser Johnson &amp; Johnson hit it with a $5.5 billion lawsuit that alleges the Natick company improperly induced Guidant to violate the terms of its acquisition deal with Johnson &amp; Johnson.
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A prominent Boston-based real estate company has agreed to test for and remove any hazardous lead paint from nearly 10,400 apartments nationwide, including more than 7,000 in Massachusetts, under a consent agreement that federal and state officials plan to announce today.
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Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert.
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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."
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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.
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By Tom Spoth, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 11--In February 2004, a company in Burlington received a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Army.
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Two gun firms agree to pay more than $2m to the families of victims of the US sniper shootings in 2002.
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An American media corporation apologises for sparking a security alert in Boston with a marketing campaign.
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The Boston investment firm Adams, Harkness Inc. will pay $575,000 to settle charges that it failed to disclose it was paid by investment banks to write research reports on the banks' underwriting clients, regulators said yesterday. Adams, Harkness also failed to preserve copies of internal e-mails as required by law, they said.
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Britain's WPP Group Plc has offered to  pay more than $1.25 billion for advertising firm Gray Global  Group, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing an  unidentified person familiar with the matter.
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Online-advertising revenue was a record $2.37 billion in the second quarter as the industry continued to push past the levels reached during the dot-com boom, according to a trade group.
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A group of Boston businessmen including former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch, advertising executive Jack Connors, and concessionaire Joe O'Donnell may make a bid for The Boston Globe next year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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A state judge has ordered the Boston law firm of Rubin and Rudman to pay $7.2 million plus as much as $2.1 million more in attorneys fees to settle charges that it negligently misrepresented the status of legal proceedings against its client, West Lynn Creamery, during negotiations to sell the dairy in 1998.
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BOSTON -- Turner Broadcasting Systems and Interference Inc. have agreed to pay $2 million for a Cartoon Network advertising campaign that caused a widespread bomb scare, the attorney general said Monday.