Chris Brown

    By Maura Johnston

    | 6:30PM 12/15/2009
    Last weekend, pop singer Chris Brown spent a lot of time re-Tweeting stories from fans who were claiming that his new album Graffiti, released on Dec. 8 by Sony (SNE) subsidiary Jive, was being held back from store shelves. Brown's domestic-violence incident last February with then-girlfriend...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 10:00AM 7/19/2009
    Whenever the issue of crisis public relations comes up, the name Tylenol immediately comes to mind. In 1982, seven Tylenol users in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. Within a week of the first death, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) --...

    By Barbara Bartlein

    | 12:00PM 2/20/2009
    There continues to be fallout from the altercation between high profile Chris Brown and Rhianna. Reportedly Brown hit Rhianna while arguing in Hancock Park, an upscale neighborhood in Los Angeles. A day after his arrest, the makers at Doublemint gum shelved ads featuring Brown singing a new jingle....