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It’s a brand new day for the man of steel. Continuing a recent trend of comic book characters coming out as LGBTQ, Superman is now confirmed to be bisexual and on the fight for global social issues, according to the DC team behind the character, who spoke to IGN. This news is not for the traditional iteration of Clark Kent, but instead his 17-year-old son, Jon, who has taken up his father’s mantle. “It is a pretty big deal doing it with Jon Kent as Superman … I hope this kind of thing will not be seen as a big...

New Coke was considered one of the biggest marketing blunders, but the soft drink company is now bringing back the item for a limited time as a partnership with the Netflix series “Stranger Things.” New Coke’s revival brought back memories of other product failures from major companies in the past. Here are some memorable blunders.

You would think that everything to be said about the new Gillette ad has already been said. But honestly, this commercial is truly a sign of the Times. Casting men as as a clear and toxic danger to women because of the bad behavior of a few is more propaganda than pitch, and seems an odd way to woo (male) customers. In fact I think there’s a word for that type of stereotyping, what is it again? Oh, yes, “profiling.” Isn’t that supposed to be a bad thing? I don’t think the “new Gillette” is going to have much staying...

IHOP is officially back to its original identity as the International House of Pancakes. On Monday, the chain announced on social media that its time as IHOb — the International House of Burgers — had come to an end. "We're giving away 60¢ short stacks on July 17 from 7a-7p for IHOP's 60th birthday. That's right, IHOP! We'd never turn our back on pancakes (except for that time we faked it to promote our new burgers)," the chain posted on Facebook.

International House of Pancakes has created a stir by saying that after being IHOP for 60 years, it is "flippin' our name to IHOb" — setting off speculation over what that mysterious b could signify. For now, the company isn't saying. IHOP promises to reveal the meaning on June 11.But the Internet isn't big on waiting. Hungry for answers, people responded to the cryptic tweets: Could it be breakfast? Biscuits? Brunch? The improbable bancakes? Simply, and minimally, bacon? The on-trend bitcoin? Those are a few of the more popular guesses on IHOP's Twitter feed, in a thread that's littered with...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Nearly 14 years after Bill Cosby drugged and molested a woman 30 years his junior, a jury found him guilty Thursday of all charges in his sex assault retrial......

Another day, another Facebook home page redesign. According to a blog post by Facebook engineering manager Mark Tonkelowitz, users this week were treated to a revamped news feed designed to make the user experience more like a newspaper — that is, Facebook will tell you which of your friends’ updates are worth reading. “When you pick up a newspaper after not reading it for a week, the front page quickly clues you into the most interesting stories. In the past, News Feed hasn’t worked like that,” Tonkelowitz writes. But now, “all your news will be in a single stream with...

A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits that claimed Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia conspired with paramilitary groups to kill, torture and intimidate people to eliminate labor union activity. The judge asserted he lacked jurisdiction because the complaints in the lawsuits were "vague." "Demonstrating indirect liability for human rights abuses on the part of corporate entities is an inherently difficult task," U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez wrote in his 54-page ruling dated Friday. The lawsuits, filed in 2001 by the Colombian union Sinaltrainal and several workers, accused Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. and four of its bottling affiliates in Colombia of hiring or...

It was a bittersweet pleasure to go on-air Friday for two hours with my friend Jerry Agar, WPTF afternoon drivetime, from Raleigh to most of North Carolina and parts of states north and south of there. This was our last sit-down, since Jerry is moving to KMBZ in Kansas City, a larger market that wants a quick, intelligent voice from the conservative side of the spectrum. We spent 45 minutes of our time talking about the Swift Boat controversy involving John Kerry. The phones lit up, and so did the computer screen with e-mails. Both the calls and the e-mails...

Coca Cola the U.S. soft drink company, is secretly working on plans to launch a vanilla-flavoured version of its flagship coke drink.If the project goes ahead, the new drink -probably named Vanilla Coke-will be the biggest launch of a new Coca Cola product since the disastrous inroduction of New Coke 16 years ago. Coca Cola would not confirm or deny it was considering the launch, saying only 'we've got a number of things in development.' But the latest edition of Beverage Digest, a respected industry newsletter, will reach subscribers this week quoting one U.S. bottler as saying: 'It's over 90...