A campaign for Cape Cod kettle-cooked chips is called the first for the brand that includes television and social media. Read more..

By STUART ELLIOTT - The New York Times

June 12, 2012 - A battery breakthrough for electric cars... perhaps. Read more..

Mac William Bishop, Nadia Sussman, Channon Hodge and Pedro Rosado - The New York Times

A battery breakthrough for electric cars... perhaps. | Europe struggles to keep contagion out of Italy. | Hopes for job creation, in Ohio's pottery industry. Read more..

Mac William Bishop, Nadia Sussman, Pedro Rosado and Channon Hodge - The New York Times

International Air Transport Assn nearly doubles its forecast of European airline losses in 2012 to $1.1 billion, and says the worldwide aviation industry will make a total profit of $3 billion on revenue of $631 billion, a 0.5 percent margin, due to high fuel prices; notes American and Asian airlines should profit. Read more..

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - The New York Times

Starbucks hires the American Mug and Stein Co in East Liverpool, Ohio, to make its new line of coffee mugs; factory's production keeps four people employed and creates eight new jobs; money from the sale of the mugs and other merchandise will go to support Starbuck's Create Jobs for USA Fund, which helps small businesses. Read more..

By STEPHANIE STROM - The New York Times

French Publishers Association and the Societe des Gens de Lettres drop lawsuits in which they contended Google’s book-scanning in France violated copyright law; say they will offer digital versions of their works for Google to sell. Read more..

By ERIC PFANNER - The New York Times

June 12, 2012 - Hopes for job creation, in Ohio's pottery industry. Read more..

Mac William Bishop, Nadia Sussman, Pedro Rosado and Channon Hodge - The New York Times

Market enthusiasm over the Spanish bank bailout fades quickly; stocks in the United States and Europe fall and borrowing costs soar for some of the euro zone’s most indebted members. Read more..

By CHRISTINE HAUSER and DAVID JOLLY - The New York Times

While investors' confidence in European leaders' ability to stem the debt crisis ebbs by the day, the redesign under discussion to strengthen the currency's foundations will take months, if not years. Read more..

By PAUL TAYLOR | REUTERS - International Herald Tribune

Concerns are growing that Italy could be the next victim of Europe's financial infection, leading nervous investors to sell Italian stocks and bonds and dampening euphoria over deal to bail out Spain's banks; main fear is that Italy cannot grow its way out of a recession fast enough to pay a mountainous national debt, and that as the third-largest euro zone economy after Germany and France, Italy will have to shoulder a large portion of the bailout bill even as it grapples with its own sharp economic downturn. Read more..

By LIZ ALDERMAN and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO - The New York Times