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Manuel "Matty" Moroun enjoys a monopoly over one of the nation's busiest international trade routes between Detroit and Ontario. But now, as his Ambassador Bridge is starting to show its 81 years, Moroun has found himself frantically defending his claim to the lucrative trade business that takes place across the Detroit River each year.

Nike wanted to accelerate the public rehabilitation of Tiger Woods with a new ad featuring the voice of the golfer's deceased father. Instead, it has made its star endorser even more alien, mercenary and unsympathetic than before.

Using sex in advertising is a tried and true way to sell a product. But one company is betting that fear may be just as effective. Broadview Security (formerly branded as Brinks Home Security) has been airing ads that feature a series of scenarios that play on women's darkest fears.

NBC's Today is featuring real-life surgeries this week in its "Inside the O.R." series. Though questionable in taste and purpose, the timing couldn't have been better for the February sweeps period that starts tomorrow and runs to March 3.

It's well known that the Super Bowl isn't cheap, even with this year's price decline for a 30-second spot. But even at prices as low as $2.5 million -- compared with 2009's record $3 million price tag -- corporations have been debating whether the purchase pays off with higher sales and brand...

Got $200,000 lying around? If so, you could be among the first commercial space travelers. The U.S. space program may have stalled, but that hasn't stopped billionaire mogul Richard Branson from advancing his vision of commercial space flight. This week, at a glitzy event in the windswept Mojave...

Each year, it seems, the holiday season starts earlier. The decorations, the music, the Black Friday deals. So it makes sense that the finger pointing and accusations that retailers are anti-Christmas starts earlier too. That first shot was fired by the American Family Association, calling for "a...

Imagine you're a teenage boy whose parents are helping you move into your freshman dorm. Ooh, the excitement of starting college! You and Dad are hauling some cartons in, when suddenly you stumble across Mom having some kind of orgasmic têtê-à-têtê with your dorky new...

Peter Lowy, managing director of the world's largest owner of shopping centers, Westfield Group, told Bloomberg in a TV interview that property values in the U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand have bottomed out, and his company won't need to raise new capital by selling shares of stock. He said...

Everyone used to ask, "What would you do for a Klondike bar?" But with unemployment on the rise, the new question seems "What would you do for a job?" One group in Massachusetts has the answer: 30-second resume commercials. The venture, started by several unemployed people, wraps the video resumes...