Media

Action film "Chronicle," about three teenagers who gain superpowers, grossed $22 million at the weekend box office, putting it in the top position.

Disney and John Lasseter hope to boost the U.S. box-office punch of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese company behind 'Spirited Away' and other award-winning movies, with "The Secret World of Arrietty," based on "The Borrowers."

A deal with a German meteorology institute to sponsor a weather system backfired on auto maker BMW's Mini brand, after the "Cooper" cold front brought arctic temperatures, icy high winds and dozens of deaths to much of Europe.

As Facebook aims to go public with advertising as its main revenue driver, the task of showing that marketing on Facebook is different from everywhere else on the Internet falls to David Fischer.

Earning an estimated $1 million a year, a foul-mouthed comic shows the new rules of new media.

News Corp. named Lex Fenwick as the new chief executive of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Fenwick was recruited from Bloomberg, where he had been CEO.

New York Times Co. said weakness in print advertising at the flagship newspaper and poor results at About.com overshadowed growth in digital advertising and subscription revenues. Quarterly profit fell 12%.

Political headwinds are building against a marketing alliance between Verizon Wireless and Comcast, amid worries that cooperation between the two could blunt competition and lead to higher prices.

Mexico's antitrust commission scuttled an attempt by the country's two major broadcasters to join forces in a mobile-phone company and challenge telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim.

The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit online news publication that covers the San Francisco area, is in merger talks with a nearby nonprofit news organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting, said Bay Citizen staffers and other people familiar with the ...

AOL's quarterly earnings fell 66% amid higher costs and tax provisions, although advertising sales rose for a third straight period.

Eastman Kodak asked for bankruptcy-court permission to relinquish expensive naming rights to the Kodak Theatre, the home to the Academy Awards.