-GE commits to $345 million ad buy from NBCU. link
-Yahoo, Microsoft finalize search and ad deal. link
-Google launches real-time search. link
-Greenpeace predicts the wrong future in an ad campaign launched ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit. link
-eBay’s former CEO Meg Whitman to Craigslist: We could’ve owned you. link
-Kansas City-based firm Bernstein-Rein indulges their follicle fetish for the holidays. link
-Advertisers are eyeing female gamers. link
-Organic appointed former FutureBrand co-CEO Steve Beck to the position of SVP of strategy. link
-SoHo agency Barker/DZP launched a new campaign for IDB Bank. link
-GM’s new ad chief is taking a hands-off approach. link
-The U.K. could be out of the ad recession sooner than expected. link
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