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LONDON – The Royal Air Force is promoting its career opportunities with a nationwide roadshow throughout September through experiential agency BEcause.

LONDON – Channel 4 is to make approximately 150 staff redundant and scale back its programme budget as part of a cost-cutting drive aimed at saving up to £100m over the next two years.

NEW YORK – U2 frontman Bono will be lending his activism expertise to an exclusive blog for the Financial Times that will follow this week’s United Nations Millennium Development Goals event in New York.

(TrendHunter.com) Bound to be a conversation starter at your next party, this four-piece set of soft-backed, no-scuff coasters features a series of sexy exotic ladies framed to look like Polaroid photographs.

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. is selling its successful advergaming website Candystand.com to Funtank, the newly opened branded gaming and entertainment publisher said today.

Right now, reports are still all over the place regarding the shooting at a school in Kauhajoki, Finland. Some say the gunman has killed himself, some say that he’s been arrested – see the google news cluster.

TimesOnline

Finland’s second school massacre in under a year began at 0800GMT in the town of Kauhajoki, about 180 miles (300km) northwest of Helsinki, and lasted slightly over an hour.

Initial reports said that police had managed to arrest the killer, but the town mayor told Reuters that he had turned the gun on himself.

What is certain in this tragic incident, is that once again the automatic ad targeting software was way to diligent over at Aftonbladet.se. When the first reports came in, a banner declared: Silence I kill you! as seen in the screenshot taken by tomsun on his cellphone here. Ugh – whatever that banner is selling, I don’t want to buy it.

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LONDON – Clear Channel is to convert its backlit formats from fluorescent tubes to an LED lighting system as part of its commitment to energy efficiency.

LONDON – Five is refreshing its on-air look for the first time in six years and dramatically changing the way it runs promotions and idents around ad breaks and programmes.

LONDON – Sony Ericsson is launching a multimillion-pound global marketing campaign to promote its tie with the upcoming James Bond film Quantum of Solace.