Archive for 'Business'
42 Good Things from Samsung
Posted on 09. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Did you know there are 42 good things you can do with the Samsung Omnia mobile phone? You can discover each one of them by watching 42 short videos on the dedicated website. Yes, I know, at first sight the idea of watching 42 videos sounds a bit boring and frustrating, but if you give [...]
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Sprint Plug Into Now
Posted on 09. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Plug Into Now is a new website of Sprint. It has more than 30 widgets that show current world population, search engine trends, web cams (Niagara Falls, The Whitehouse), the number of eggs being produced, the rate of production of cars and bicycles, and even the number of people stuck in elevators.
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Nike and Social Networking
Posted on 08. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Nike is winning a new game that other corporations, from Coca-Cola to Verizon to General Motors, have tried unsuccessfully to play: building brand loyalty via online social networking. In the two years since it launched Nike+, a technology that tracks data of every run and connects runners around the world at a Web site, nikeplus.com, [...]
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Fake Calls in iPhone – AppStore
Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
There is a new application in AppStore. It costs only 99 cents but it can rescue us from many disasters! How many times did we want to have a call from someone in order to leave a place, a meeting or a difficult situation? With the new App Fake Calls, you can create your own [...]
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Bailey’s with Nivea – Funny Combo!
Posted on 02. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
I have to share this submission for a booze-related non-gadgety Weird Combo of the Day, which we get more often than not. What are these people thinking? Are the people in charge of product synergy more than occasionally enjoying the products they’re synergizing? Perhaps. Or it could be that in Shanghai reader Charles’ neighborhood, they’re [...]
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What is Marketing with one picture!
Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
I recently discovered the below image from Deborah Schultz’s blog where she wrote about the importance of relationships and its impact on branding. I agree with her position that it’s not necessarily about marketing but how you relate to your customers. To me, this is a clear representation of how social media differs from that [...]
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Layoffs in US tech companies!
Posted on 24. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
The unemployment issue is getting bigger and serious! These are some of the Tech companies that fire 19,556 employees. Total Layoffs: 36 Total Employees: 19,556 Company Date Location # % Source Haute Secure October 23, 2008 Seattle 3 50% TechCrunch XeroxCorp October 23, 2008 world-wide 3,000 5% WSJ Cake Financial October 23, 2008 30% internal [...]
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New Logo for Pepsi
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
It’s new logo presented Pepsi, a part of the big plan of repositioning its brand, with a cost of $1,2 billions. The circle with the blue and red smile created in 50′s but PepsiCo wants to create a different logo for the three major sodas. PepsiCo created different smiles for Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi [...]
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Yahoo fires the 10% of its employees!
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
This morning, all the employees of Yahoo had a surprise email from their boss. Jerry Yang, CEO amd co-founder of Yahoo, sent an email to all the Yahoo’s employees worldwide. In the email Jerry Yang explained the reasons of his decision According to his words, Yahoo has to eliminate its costs by $400 millions! The [...]
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Red Bull SoapBox Race at San Francisco
Posted on 19. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
The 8th Red Bull SoapBox Race took place in San Francisco yesterday. Red Bull began this event in 1997 and since then and every year Red Bull SoapBox Race takes place in many cities around the world. Yesterday San in Francisco, there were more than 75,000 people to see the 34 teams that participated in [...]
