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Cassandra Smith spends $800 a month renting designer handbags and leases a luxury condo in downtown Miami.

Put away your vacuum pump, heavy-duty auto booster cables and edible latex Brad Pitt face mask-and-abs combo.

Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers. The BBC reports.

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:57 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:57 p.m. Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard.

Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance received $5.9 million from insurance companies during the first half of 2009, the department has reported.

NEW YORK Internet advertising could look and feel a whole lot different in 2010.

Virginia is for Lovers, the official state tourism slogan for Virginia, was recently named one of the top 10 tourism marketing campaigns of all time.

Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.

In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.

Sports marketing executive Marc Williams has been named executive director of the Circle City Classic, the annual football game in Indianapolis between two historically black colleges.Williams, a native of Florham Park, N.J., was CEO of Williams Communications LLC, a company he began in 2006.

Foster Farms to reduce contracted growers in La. FARMERVILLE, La. A A A' A California-based poultry company that recently took over a closed Louisiana processing plant with assistance from the state says it will not extend contracts to all of the plant's former growers.

Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.

Kate Lee Butler, a business development director for sales and marketing at The Associated Press, has been promoted to vice president of newspaper markets.

HP has introduced the xw9400, the first workstation to adopt the AMD Opteron 2400 six-core "Istanbul" processor.

If shopping for household essentials like toilet paper and soap isn't your favorite activity, a new Web site might eliminate the task -- while saving you cash.

General Mills Inc. said Wednesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit almost doubled as consumers stuck with its well-known brands such as Cheerios cereal and Yoplait yogurt.

A Burger King ad running in Singapore is turning heads and even making some gag.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced plans Tuesday to expand its crisis consulting for arts organizations that are struggling to survive the recession, an effort championed by first lady Michelle Obama and congressional leaders.

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Hyundai will continue their successful value escalation strategy in the car sales wars, now offering to lock down a year of gas at $1.49 per gallon for a year for buyers of new vehicles purchased between now and August 31st.