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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

Read More: Monopoly History, Economics, UC Berkeley, Monopoly, Origins, History of Monopoly, Ralph Anspach, Great Depression, Monopoly Game, Landlord's Game, Monopoly Board Game, Hasbro, Supreme Court, Elizabeth Magie, Economist, Professor Anspach, Parker Brothers, Home News

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...

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The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hasbro, Transformers, G.I. Joe:the Rise of Cobra, G.I. Joe, War Games, Iraq War, Vietnam, Iron Man, Aghanistan War, World War Two, Politics News
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.

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

Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Espn, Microsoft, Sumner Redstone, Mediabytes, Discovery Communications, Windows 7, Shelly Palmer, Hasbro, Nbcuu, Abc, Media News, Fox, Hulu, Disney, Comcast, Viacom, Nbc, Media News
Shelly Palmer

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

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Discovery Kids To Be Renamed, Branded With Hasbro

Los Angeles Times | Joe Flint | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Discovery Hasbro, Discovery Kids, Discovery, Hasbro, Media News

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

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Great Games for Christmas: The Economy Edition!

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 01.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Holidays, Chutes and Ladders, Humor, Board Games, Satire, Economy, Christmas, Hasbro, Monopoly, The Game of Life, Candyland, Guess Who, Clue, Life, Milton Bradley, Style News
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!

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So Long, Scrabulous! Hasbro/Scrabble Wins

CNET, ReadWriteWeb, Facebook | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Scrabulous Down, Scrabulous Dead, Scrabble, Scrabulous Offline, Scrabulous Gone, Facebook, Hasbro, Scrabulous, Facebook Scrabble, Scrabulous Taken Down, Scrabulous Lawsuit, Scrabulous Sued, Jayant Agarwall, Rajat and Jayant Agarwall, Rajat Agarwall, Business News

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...

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What Businesses Can Learn From Scrabulous

Technology Evangelist | Ed Kohler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Scrabulous Creators, Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, Mattle, Scrabble, Realnetworks, Save Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, Facebook, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Business News

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

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

MSNBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Monopoly, Monopoly World Edition, Hasbro Monopoly, Hasbro, Business News

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

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Hasbro Tries To Shut Down "Scrabulous"

Fortune | Josh Quittner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, Scrabble, Facebook Games, Facebook, Hasbro, Scrabulous, Ea, Business News

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 ...

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Pink Slip Alert: Have You Lost Your Job Today?

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Yucca Mountain, Chicago Sun-Times, Mcgraw-Hill, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, WGA Strike, Warner Bros, Hasbro, Business News

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...

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