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Front man Yannis Philippakis named his Oxford, England, band Foals because his surname means “little lover of horses” in Greek. How cute is that? Foals’ music is anything but cutesy, however. It moves at a healthy gait, with a fine balance of dance and rock and a healthy splash of saxophone. 

I haven’t owned a TV in over five years and for that reason, I’m apparently television networks’ worst nightmare. Not because I don’t watch TV, though, because I do—it’s just that I watch it on the internet.

Iron Man, the super-hero comic book adaptation starring Robert Downey Jr., debuted at #1 at the box office this past weekend and has hauled in over $104 million since Thursday, CNN reports. And with it, Mr. Downey Jr. himself makes a sort of comeback, providing evidence once again for America’s long-standing (and lucrative) love affair with stars who come clean.

In what (I assume) can only be an attempt to emulate Onion-style humor, CNN has begun selling T-shirts with its “Latest Headlines” printed on them.

A while back, I wrote about this spot for Orangina and what a grody orgy it was. Little did I know that another campaign would come along that would make that musical salute to bodily functions look like the episode of “Little House on the Prairie” where Tinker Jones, the kindhearted mute, helps the kids of Walnut Grove forge a new bell for Reverend Alden’s church.

On the eve of Earth Day, the world’s largest toy and baby retail company is producing eco-friendly children’s items that encourage consumers to “Recycle, Reuse, Renew and RE-THINK.”

I still remember trying to connect my new Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop in my dorm room the first week of college (all the way back in ‘99 - yikes) and having the nerdy dude on my floor help me figure out how to connect the Ethernet cable to the dongle to the computer.

To study Snapple is to study the very history of modern consumer branding.

Amid all the initiatives in which Internet companies are supposed to make friends with each other, the recent announcement by MySpace may well be the most useful and important for ordinary people.

Marketer and celeb photographer deny reports of retouched images for campaign.

So how does it work? The key is the coming together of internet-connected mobile phones and location or proximity technology.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism also said it was surprised at how much the Comedy Central late-night program resembles The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball and other cable news shows in content.

In the latest sign that Hollywood studios are gun shy about the art-house movie market they once coveted, Warner Bros. said it is shutting down its two specialty film labels.

Coolspotters, now in beta, has pages for products, celebrities, brands, TV shows and movies and connects them to actors, athletes, business icons, musicians and politicians.

WPP-owned research company Millward Brown puts Google at number one in its annual top 100 global brand power list for the second year in a row with a 30% year-on-year increase in its value.