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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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