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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...

Ken and Barbie are getting some rowdy new neighbors. This week, a set of action figures based on "real" characters of World Wrestling Entertainment will hit store shelves alongside Mattel's other doll franchises, including Barbie, Ken and Little Mommy Walk & Giggle. The new lineup of action...

Seasoned Black Friday shoppers know that the best way to save during this all-important shopping day is to plot out a course of action ahead of time. That means knowing what you want and where to get it -- at the lowest possible price, of course. Such planning entails scouring the Black Friday...

Forget Halloween. For retailers, the scariest thing lurking around the corner is the specter of a bad holiday shopping season. Perhaps that explains why Toys R' Us is releasing its annual "hot list" of toys before the leaves have even fallen from the trees. It wants parents to take the list, check...

Kids' shoe maker Buster Brown is recalling 1.4 million pairs of car-shaped water clogs because their decorative wheels can fall off and pose a choking hazard to young children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.The Chinese-made clogs were sold at major retailers nationwide from...

On Monday, The Washington Post reported on the opening of the flagship Barbie store in Shanghai, China. Targeted at adults as well as children, the six-story, 35,000 square foot store includes a spa and gourmet restaurant, and sells high-end chocolates and women's clothing. One irony lies in the...

On the eve of Barbie's 50th birthday, famed decorator Jonathan Adler has redesigned a 3,500-square-foot home Malibu home to look just like Barbie's home."Barbie was a dream client because she doesn't exist as a person," Adler told The Associated Press. "She exists as fantasy and is the perfect...