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Sorry, Doll: World's Biggest Barbie Store Closes
5:30PM 3/07/2011
In China, we know one blonde who isn't having more fun. Barbie, the quintessential American doll, packed her perfectly accessorized bags after her Shanghai flagship store closed. It was the world's second Barbie store, but it dwarfed the scale of the first, established in Buenos Aires.
The 35,000...
Fashion-Doll Fight Continues: MGA Sues Mattel Over Bratz Dolls
2:00AM 2/04/2011
MGA Entertainment, the maker of Bratz dolls has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Mattel, which makes rival Barbie dolls.
Video-game publisher THQ, who makes the popular uDraw tablet and fighting game UFC, has signed a deal with Mattel to bring Barbie, Hot Wheels and other brands to gaming consoles. Can it help give the gaming company -- whose stock has soared 47% in less than two months -- increase its revenue?
Blogwatch: The Housing Market Is Poised to Boom
11:20AM 10/27/2010
Among the day's top online stories for investors: Why the housing market is ready to boom, which sector significantly outperformed the S&P over the past year, and the scoop on Warren Buffett's successor Todd Combs.
A Barbie doll featuring a diamond necklace sold at a New York auction for a record $302,500.
The one-off Barbie is wearing a black strapless evening gown with a choker necklace featuring a one-carat square-cut pink diamond, BBC News said.
The price smashed the previous record for a Barbie sale,...
Bratz dolls are back after legal fight that isn't child's play
2:30PM 7/27/2010
This toy story began in court. Bratz dolls, the tarted-up line of Barbie rivals that became a billion-dollar enterprise, are returning with a new line after its maker, MGA, won back the trademark rights in an appeals court.
New Bratz dolls are expected to hit stores in late August, according to...
Mattel Second-Quarter Earnings Doubles as Operating Income Rises
7:08AM 7/16/2010
Toymaker Mattel said that its profit for the second quarter more than doubled from a year ago, helped by solid performance across its "portfolio of brands and countries, particularly Barbie and Hot Wheels."
It may not be the best $74.95 you'll ever spend, but Mattel's "Mad Men" dolls sure have a lot of possibilities for fun.
That's the suggested retail price for one of four "Mad Men" dolls to be sold by Mattel in specialty stores and at amctv.com and barbiecollector.com, although I couldn't find them...
Barbie Doll has a new job, and unlike many of the 14.8 million unemployed Americans, the new job found her -- she's a computer engineer.
In an online poll sure to put the Bush-Gore vote count to shame, voters gave Barbie two jobs in 2010. The popular vote winner from online voting was for computer...
Barbie is looking for a new job, and she's exploring several options: surgeon, architect, computer engineer, news anchor, and environmentalist. Barbie's latest career move will be decided by an online vote that ends Wednesday, Feb. 10, and will be unveiled Feb. 12 at the Toy Fair in New...
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