fast food

Digital Grilled Cheese D9 Poll Results Are In: “The Kara” Edges Out “The Walt”

Kara Swisher in D9 on June 8, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT

Personally, I preferred “The Walt” over “The Kara.” But the attendees of the ninth D: All Things Digital conference seemed to like the grilled cheese sandwich made of “sharp” cheddar over more “experienced” gruyere, courtesy of a new start-up demo called Melt.

News Corp.: Conan’s Not Coming to Fox Just Yet; Amazon’s Ready to Bend on E-Book Pricing

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2010 at 2:41 pm PT

Amazon caved to Macmillan’s demands on e-book pricing, and now the online retailer is set to give News Corp.’s HarperCollins a new deal too, says Rupert Murdoch. Meanwhile, don’t hold your breath waiting for Conan O’Brien on Fox.

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Only in China: McDonald's Goes Online to Sell Consumer Goods

Juliet Ye, Reporter, China Journal, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 28, 2009 at 12:35 pm PT

In February, McDonald’s launched an online shop on Alibaba’s Taobao, China’s top online auction site, to promote its Super Value meal. The fast-food giant wasn’t selling burgers. Instead, for two months it sold popular and fashionable products such as mobile phones, digital cameras and MP3 players on its virtual store, along with the more-predictable gift vouchers.