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  • The whisky toasting the demise of Lehman Brothers bank (BBC)

  • Mavericks adds music to the mix (Half Moon Bay Review)

  • What to Name the Baby? (Industry Standard)

  • Anatomy of a name change (Bankrate)

  • Companies resurrect abandoned names, ditch ".com" (CNET)

  • When Dot-com Becomes Dot-yawn (Electronic News)

  • Name Game Is Serious Business for Corporate America (LA Times)

  • For Companies, The Right Name Means a Lot (ABC News)

  • The Rebranding of Arthur Andersen (Destination CRM)

  • IBM kisses Monday brand goodbye (Reuters)

  • Start-Ups Spend Time, Money In Search of the Perfect Name (Wall Street Journal)

  • Companies bet big on name game (B to B)

  • Silly Names Get Serious Attention (Brandweek)

  • What's in a Name? (Search CIO)

  • The names of pills matter (The Economist)

  • How to name a startup (Eurowards)

  • Few New Names (inc.)

  • Time Warner, Broadwing, Change Names After Billions in Losses (Bloomberg)

  • A Great City Forced to Eat Crow (San Francisco Chronicle)

  • New tech-firm names: odyssey of oddity (Washington Post)

  • Playing the name game (Indianapolis Business Journal)

  • What's in a Name? (Inc.)

  • Lost in Translation (Business 2.0)

  • TiVo battles misconceptions about new offering for advertisers (PR Week)

  • Name Change at Hershey (Prepared Foods)

  • The Name Game (Canadian Business Journal)

  • Airport Names Getting Revised (LA Times)

  • Marine World's out -- Discovery Kingdom's In (San Francisco Chronicle)

  • Is the Federated name a thing of the past? (DM News)

  • What's in a Name? (Business Week)

  • How do you tell a web name from a typo? (Business Week)

  • In drug-name game, every letter sends a message (AP)

  • Takeshi Mitarai's Camera Shot (Investors Business Daily)

  • Drug Makers Make Name Games Big Business (Forbes)

  • A Weird Science Used in Naming Drugs (Chicago Tribune)

  • Name that Drug! (Hightower Report on KPIG radio)

  • Are the Olympics Worth It? (Portfolio)








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