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Playboy Enterprises, which founder and major shareholder Hugh Hefner wants to take private, reports that its second-quarter loss eased as gains in its licensing business offset declines in publishing.

Playboy Enterprises (PLA) launched a website it says will be safe to browse at work. The site, thesmokingjacket.com, contains none of the nudity of the iconic magazine. Instead, it will focus on humor – original content and funny moments harvested from sources as diverse as The Daily Show...

Hugh Hefner's offer to buy all of Playboy Enterprises and take it private may look like a slam-dunk because he already owns so much of it. Not so. Some big shareholders say it's a low-ball bid, and already FriendFinder has made a higher offer.

Think the Playboy brand is dead? Think again. The company, famous for its iconinc magazine and velvet-clad bunnies, is heading to the world's biggest casino playground this year: the Chinese gambling region of Macau.

In a bid to refresh its brand and return to profit, Playboy Enterprises announced this week that the June issue of Playboy magazine, set to hit newsstands Friday, will sport a 3-D centerfold of Playmate of the Year Hope Dworaczyk.

Hugh Hefner has got one of the world's best jobs. Scott Flanders, who will become the newest CEO of Playboy Enterprises (PLA), has among the worst. The 52-year-old, who was the head of closely held publisher Freedom Communications, takes the mantle of Hefner's empire at a critical time. Playboy is...

Hugh Hefner, America's favorite girl-chasing geezer, may sell the Playboy empire he built more than 50 years ago. According to the New York Post, Playboy Enterprises Inc. (PLA) is being "quietly" shopped around to private equity firms for about $300 million. That's roughly three times the market...

You were always more analytical than the average girl. When your pre-teen friends were giggling about horses and the latest boy bands, you were acing math and selling more Girl Scout Cookies than all of them combined. You went to a good college, got into a top ten business school, and for all your...