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Between 2002 and 2011, companies spent a whopping $2.5 billion on Super Bowl advertising; this year, a 30-second commercial cost an average of $3.5 million. But what do you get for all that cash. In the case of these eight major advertisers, not as much as they'd hoped.

At 6pm today, a beer war of international scope will begin. That's because the participants in the Beer Summit -- President Barack H. Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, and Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Sargent James Crowley -- will each be drinking different beers. Those who thought...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Anheuser-Busch InBev (AHBIF) is considering selling Rolling Rock, a regionally popular beer brand whose sales have been falling for the past few years. This sale is the latest development in a long, sad demonstration of why A-B's fortunes were sinking prior to...

It's shaping up to be an interesting day. Shares of Express Scripts Inc. (ESRX) gained in pre-market trading after it agreed to buy WellPoint Inc.'s (WLP) pharmaceutical benefit management businesses for about $4.68 billion. As Bloomberg News notes, "Express Scripts lost a hostile takeover bid two...

Waterford Wedgwood's bankruptcy earlier this year was a crystal-clear sign that luxury products weren't immune from the ravages of worldwide recession. Now an investment firm with an appetite for troubled companies is buying the fine porcelain and glassware maker and plans to use the company to...