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NBA Renews Major Ad Partnership Deals

For the NBA, after resolving its 149-day labor dispute last month, now comes the hard part: rounding up advertisers. On Monday, the league will announce it is renewing three of its major long-term partnership deals—with Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, PesicCo Inc.'s Gatorade and AutoTrader.com. Mark Tatum, the National Basketball Association's executive vice president…

New 'Adware' Apps Bug Facebook, Google

A new generation of controversial advertising software is wreaking havoc on the ad businesses of Web giants including Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., inserting a layer of ads on websites or covering up other paying ads. The software comes in the form of applications that allow people to customize their…

Military Veterans Prepare for a New Role

Former Navy Petty Officer Ronnie Reum knows how to safely jump out of a helicopter into the ocean but is having a hard time finding clients for his small commercial-cleaning company. The 36-year-old veteran, who has little business experience, is now being mentored in marketing with the help of an…

Green Bay's Hottest Stock

As stock investments go, the Green Bay Packers' latest $62.5 million offering isn't very good. It pays no dividends, can only be transferred to family and can't appreciate in value. But that hasn't stopped the rabid fans of the National Football League's only undefeated team from paying $250 a share…

Big Oil Heads Back Home

Big Oil is redrawing the energy map. For decades, its main stomping grounds were in the developing world—exotic locales like the Persian Gulf and the desert sands of North Africa, the Niger Delta and the Caspian Sea. But in recent years, that geographical focus has undergone a radical change. Western…

As Wages Rise, Tough Choices

Small businesses, already on a tight budget, are looking for new ways to cut costs as they brace for minimum wage increases in several U.S. states next month. Strategies range from cutting back workers' hours, to replacing waiters with an automated ordering system. Eight states including Arizona, Florida and Washington…

Samsung Gets a Win in Apple War

SYDNEY—Samsung Electronics Co. won a significant victory Wednesday in its global tablet war with Apple Inc., as a panel of judges lifted a temporary ban on sales of its devices in Australia. Apple, which argues that Samsung copied the design from the iPad, had already succeeded in persuading a court in…