Dreams, Inc., a leader in licensed sports products, has reported a web syndication deal with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, one of the nation’s highest circulation newspapers. The new agreement will provide Dreams another outlet for licensed sports products and provide their new media partner with an additional stream of income. Dreams has previously obtained other major media/newspaper clients including USA Today, the Baltimore Sun and the Boston Globe.

In the new agreement Dreams will provide the design, development, marketing, customer service and fulfillment of an online Fan Shop for their new media partner. The merchandise offered includes a selection of more than 120,000 team products in a variety of categories including apparel, novelties, collectibles, home and office. Dreams will also provide the media outlet with sophisticated Search Engine Optimization (SEO), targeted database marketing, customer service and same day turnaround for shipping products.

Kevin Bates, Dreams’ Retail President and FansEdge Founder, commented on the

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An interesting opinion piece today by Vladimir Ryzhkov in the Moscow Times sees one of the last bastions of media freedom - Ren TV - looking like it may have to fight for its independence.  The increasingly popular station, the only one in Russia to offer a critical interpretation of the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam disaster and cover the Dissenter's Marches in Moscow and St Petersburg, may be fettered by management 'restructuring'.Controlled by National Media Group, owned by Putin ally Yury Kovalchukm, Ren will have a new Director General and will find new lodgings alonside state-controlled RIA-Novosti and the tow-the-line RT.  Ryzhkov recollects Gazprom's Media's overhaul of NTV which followed similar lines: could this be another nail in ...

Kenneth D. Lewis There are many ways to view Kenneth Lewis’ eight-year reign as Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) chief executive, but two seem to hold the most landscape.

On one hand, the $130 billion he spent on acquisitions – FleetBoston Financial Corp., MBNA Corp., LaSalle Bank Corp., Countrywide Financial Corp., Charles Schwab Corp.’s (Nasdaq: SCHW) U.S. Trust private banking unit and Merrill Lynch – that more than tripled the size of Bank of America, making it the largest U.S. lender both by assets and deposits.

On the other, his open-wallet policy and the example it set forth almost perfectly encapsulates the boom, bust and nascent rebound of the U.S. housing and banking crisis – which later became the financial plague that devastated markets all over the world.

In the second half of 2007, the extent of the U.S. housing crisis began to crystallize when Countrywide’s freewheeling

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Axial Vector Energy Corp. today reminded investors that that its revolutionary Axial Vector Engine will be featured on the Global News Group Program “Special Edition TV” on Sunday, September 27th at 11:00 am EST. Designed to provide a platform for companies and organizations to talk about and present their solutions, the program provides international exposure via customized news reports reaching industry leaders and people through various news and media outlets.

Earlier this year, Host and Managing Editor of “Special Edition TV,” Ileana Bravo interviewed representatives from AVEC at their first United States based live demonstration of the “axial flux” and GENSET technology power generating system. The footage from these interviews, demonstrations, and other sources was compiled to deliver Axial’s story.

Ms. Bravo commented, “The fact that this engine runs on bio-based oil as fuel is significant in several ways. Palm oils that are

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Wrapping up its Emmy Awards activities on Sunday, Muscle Flex Inc. today provided investors with an overview of the many events the company was a part of.

The two-day GBK Productions Emmy Awards Gifting Lounge was held on Friday and Saturday from 11 am – 6 pm. Muscle Flex met and showcased its Muscle Flex VATA Brasil(TM) Sports and Active Wear Line to a number of individuals from the press and media outlets, including three television / online interviews as well as magazines and online columns. Additionally, Danny Alex spent time with and showcased the Muscle Flex VATA Brasil Collection to a number of high profile celebrities such as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Morgan Fairchild, Randy Jackson and Neal McDonough, to name a few.

According to the press release, a total of 39 various television celebrities visited the Muscle Flex suite and

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There are a number of media outlets reporting on the most recent NATO-Russia foxtrot, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's call for an "open-minded and unprecedented dialogue" with Russia. Personally, I'd first rather just go straight to the source:

Listening carefully to Rasmussen's remarks here, aside from his emphasis on common interests between NATO and Russia - namely, preventing terrorist attacks, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and establishing a stable Afghanistan - the idea that Rasmussen clearly wants us to take away here, repeating it no fewer than three times is, "We can do more."

That may very well be the case, but the Secretary-General would be well-advised to consider Ariel Cohen's

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Axial Vector Energy Corp. (”AVEC”) announced this morning that the news segment for the upcoming Fox Business TV show has been completed and is now available to investors on the AVEC YouTube business page. To view the video, click the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCqDmmMzWvI

Spanning over approximately nine minutes, the video provides a complete overview of the company and its immediate future plans to commercialize its breakthrough engines and generators. In July, Host and Managing Editor of “Special Edition TV,” Ileana Bravo, interviewed AVEC representatives at their first United States-based live demonstration of the “axial flux” and GENSET technology power generating system. Footage from these interviews, demonstrations, and other sources was used to help deliver this story of advanced green technology.

Sanjai Chhaunker, President and CEO of AVEC, stated, “We have been informed that when the story airs on Sunday, September 27, 11

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Roland Oliphant at Russia Profile has tracked down Chris Anderson to talk about the controversial GQ censorship.  I am here in Brussels with Karinna Moskalenko, whom will probably have some commentary for me to publish tomorrow.

Anderson described that as a cop-out. "This seems to be the party line that is being adopted by those defending the Russia government," he said. "Certainly, these accusations or suspicions about the '99 bombings have been floating around out there for a long time, but what is new is that, for the first time, a major international news magazine has decided to look at this issue in depth." He also rejected Uskov's assumption that the stories were already in the public domain. "I also strongly doubt that most of the issues I raise in the article are common knowledge to the average Russian person, since very few Russian media outlets have ever

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China is Investing Billions in Renewable Energy One firm has already built China’s largest wind turbine manufacturing factory. And it’s working with the Chinese Science Academy to develop new wind, solar, and geothermal technologies… for which it will own 70% of the rights. But this company’s business reaches far beyond the Chinese border, with operations in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe. It’s first quarter net income increased by 294% over a year ago. Click here for the full report.

A $15 billion deal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) involving Australia, China and global-oil heavyweight Exxon-Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) has prompted many investors to worry that China may be using its global-markets muscle to “paper over” cracks in the global economy.

In reality, however, this mega-deal is a harbinger of what’s to come, and highlights the road that global investors must travel in their journey …

The Top 10 Reasons Why the China Sell Off Will Continue

by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist

How much are you willing to pay for good advice? And by “good,” I mean profitable.

A couple of hundred bucks? A couple of thousand?

Before you answer, consider this: Two weeks ago, I alerted members of The Oxford Club to the precarious position of Chinese equities. As I put it, “China could be on a crash course with a correction.”

A contrarian stance, no doubt. But vindication came quickly.

The following Monday, Chinese stocks (represented by the Shanghai Composite Index) suffered a 5.8% drop – the worst single-day decline of the year. Two days later, they got dented by another 4.3%.

Unabashed China bulls will point out that the Shanghai index promptly recovered. But then this week hit…

Rally Rebuffed: Chinese Stocks Take Another Tumble

On Monday, the

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