Air2Web's New Management Team Primed to Navigate Changing Mobile Marketing Industry (Centre Daily Times)
Air2Web, a market leader in mobile communications, is pleased to announce an overhaul of its management team. The new team features deep expertise in mobile business process solutions. Air2Web's focus continues to be on delivering high impact mobile marketing programs to Fortune 1000 companies focused on consumer markets. In addition, the Company plans to rapidly expand into new areas such as ...

Marketing and sales professional says he'll run for Lawrence City Commission (Lawrence Journal-World)
James Bush, a marketing and sales professional, plans to formally file Tuesday for a seat on the Lawrence City Commission.

Auto news briefs: Show plans trimmed (Detroit Free Press)
Chrysler LLC plans to scale back during the Detroit auto show this year by cutting a postshow party it has held during the media days of the show, as well as some of its features on the show floor. Chrysler has canceled its plan to host thousands of journalists during the media days of the auto show for free drinks and dinner at the former Detroit firehouse across the street from Cobo Center, ...

RCom plans set to launch mGovernance for villages (Business Standard India)
Telecom service provider Reliance Communication, a Reliance ADA Group company, plans to make headway in the hitherto unexplored mGovernance (mobile governance) sector by launching the service in select rural pockets.

Apple cutting price on some iTunes songs, ending all copy protection (Rocky Mountain News)
Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online music store to 69 cents and plans to begin selling all tracks without copy protection. Above, marketing exec Philip Schiller gives the keynote address at the opening of the Macworld trade show in San Francisco.

Arbinet Hires Dan Powdermaker to Lead Global Sales and Marketing (Centre Daily Times)
Arbinet-the x change, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBX), a leading provider of innovative voice and IP solutions for buying and selling telecommunications capacity, today announces it has hired Dan Powdermaker as the company's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In this role, Mr. Powdermaker will be charged with managing the global sales, marketing and product organizations that span Europe, the ...

Apple cuts copy protection, iTunes prices (The Charlotte Observer)
(By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online music store to 69 cents and plans to begin selling all tracks without copy protection. At the Macworld trade show Tuesday, Apple's top marketing executive, Philip Schiller, said iTunes songs would come in three pricing tiers: 69 cents, 99 cents and ...

S. Fla. firms hone marketing game plans for Orange Bowl events (BizJournals)
When Scott Rothstein realized that the Bowl Championship Series game would be played in Dolphin Stadium this season, he knew he had a rare opportunity to hop aboard a powerful sponsorship bandwagon.

Clear Choice Health Plans acquires Trusteed Plans Service (Insurance Business Review)
Clear Choice Health Plans has acquired Trusteed Plans Service Corporation, a third party administrator of employee benefits plans that operates in the six western states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Google plans Picasa beta for Mac (ZDNet Australia)
Google plans shortly to release a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloguing and uploading photos.