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Ralph Anspach: Economist Spent Decades Fighting Monopoly Game's Corporate Owner

Wall Street Journal | MARY PILON | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home


Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign den...

The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Tom Engelhardt

Hollywood's products still rule the globe. Yet, in that international arena, American-style war, as in Iraq or Afghanistan, is a complete turn-off and real-world all-American triumph just doesn't fly anymore.

Disney Inks Deal with Hulu: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer May 1, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media


Shelly Palmer

Disney has officially become an equity-owning partner in NBCU-Fox venture Hulu.

Discovery Kids To Be Renamed, Branded With Hasbro

Los Angeles Times | Joe Flint | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media


In a deal that will surely make activist groups froth and may have rivals looking over their shoulders, Discovery Communications Inc. and Hasbro Inc. ...

Great Games for Christmas: The Economy Edition!

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 01.23.2009 | Style


Jilly Gagnon

Great game for Christmas? Clue. I know who did it! It was Pastor Warren, in the chapel, with the lead pipe! Oh....OH, oh my god. Kids, turn away! That is NOT a marriage!

So Long, Scrabulous! Hasbro/Scrabble Wins

CNET, ReadWriteWeb, Facebook | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business


What's a nine-letter word for copyright? Well, er: C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T. The popular Facebook application Scrabulous, a word-making board game that qu...

What Businesses Can Learn From Scrabulous

Technology Evangelist | Ed Kohler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Scrabulous, as the New York Times reported this weekend, is spreading like wildfire within Facebook. People who were logging into their Facebook accou...

Hasbro's Monopoly "World Edition" Gets Caught In Jerusalem Feud

MSNBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Monopoly, the iconic game of capitalism, has been drawn into the dispute over Jerusalem. Hasbro Inc. issued an apology Thursday after an employee, re...

Hasbro Tries To Shut Down "Scrabulous"

Fortune | Josh Quittner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


I can't tell if Hasbro (HAS), the maker of Scrabble, is the smartest company in the world or the dumbest. Over 100 million sets of the game have been ...

Pink Slip Alert: Have You Lost Your Job Today?

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Th-th-th-that's All Folks: Warner Bros announced that because of the WGA Strike, up to 1,000 employees would be getting WARN mailings, which are essen...