outdoor advertising

The Street View feature in Google Maps, actual photos taken by one of its vehicles equipped with nine cameras that take a series photos as it drives down a road that can be assembled into a panorama, is my candidate for the most useful tech innovation of the past few years. Like many innovations,...

When advertisers slash spending, ad-dependent newspaper companies cut costs by reducing the number of pages they print. Billboard owners aren't as lucky. They're stuck with the unsold ad space. During past recessions, that space would stand empty, aside from bleak black type declaring "Available."...