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NBC's new musical drama Smash could hardly have a stronger pedigree: Idea by Steven Spielberg, songs by award-winning Broadway producers, stars including Anjelica Huston and Debra Messing, and screen icon Marilyn Monroe holding the whole show-within-a show together.

YouTube's Your Film Festival opened up for submissions Feb. 2. The prize: $50 million, a showing at the Venice Film Festival, and mentorship from Ridley Scott.

Trinity Mirror, newspaper publisher of the popular British tabloids Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, will chop nearly a fifth of its editorial staff, even as its CEO earned over a million pounds in 2011, according to reports.

The New York Times Co, which is grappling with sinking advertising revenue and a recent change in the top management, said it continued to add subscribers for its digital products in the fourth quarter.

Scarlett Johansson has been linked to a string of men since finalizing her divorce with Ryan Reynolds last June. But new photographs of the actress have revealed her new man; an advertising art director called Nate Naylor.

Spirit Airlines added a $2 unintended consequences fee to all tickets this week in response to the Department of Transportation's (DOT) new set of passenger protections.

Scarlett Johansson is seeing advertising executive Nate Naylor

Investors jumped on Facebook's regulatory filings on Wednesday for a glimpse into the company's inner workings ahead of one of the hottest initial public offerings in recent history. But there are also potential downsides.

As Facebook hurtles toward one of the largest initial public offerings in U.S. history, its honeymoon with investors may already be over.

Facebook filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, for the first time doing a public financial strip tease.

Facebook's 27-year-old founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared some insights into his philosophy and approach to business in an open letter to the company's potential shareholders.

Now that the Facebook filing is available, it's pretty clear that before he turns 28, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be a billionaire. Maybe, if the IPO is as successful as hoped, he'll be worth about $28 billion.

Football fans looking for a sneak peek at The Dark Knight Rises or The Amazing Spider-Man on Sunday are in for a disappointment.

It may be time for Madison Avenue to reconsider all those car and beer ads run during the Super Bowl.

Shares of AOL, the seventh most-visited Website, leaped as much as 16.5 percent Wednesday after reporting improved financial results bolstered by a rise in display advertising.

ScarJo has reportedly been dating the handsome art director for six months

Apple Inc has hired Dixons Chief Executive John Browett, who revived the British electronics retailer by emphasizing customer service, to lead the iPad maker's global retail expansion.

AOL Inc. posted a drop in fourth-quarter profit, but beat Wall Street forecasts as a rise in display advertising offset an ongoing decline at its Internet dial-up business.

Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz's L'Oreal advertisement has been banned on the grounds of the ad being Misleadingly exaggerated.

Mitt Romney cruises to victory in Florida with 47 percent of the votes to Gingrich's 32 percent in largest Republican presidential nominating contest.

Mitt Romney cruised to a blowout victory in Florida's Republican U.S. presidential primary on Tuesday that put him back in front in the fight for his party's nomination to face President Barack Obama and left chief rival Newt Gingrich reeling but vowing to fight on.