Archive for 'News'
Sustainable Brands Boot Camp
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Nikos.
Sustainable Brands Boot Camp –13 week online sustainability training program intended to get business professionals up to speed on what they’ll need to be competitive and sustainable. Brought to you by the producers of the Sustainable Brands Conference.
Participants will learn from some of the world’s top sustainable business practitioners. Each of our faculty members is [...]
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Google Wave – The future of Email and IM
Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Nikos.
Today Google announced its new upcoming product, Google Wave. The two well known brothers (Lars and Jens Rasmussen) were working on this project for the last 2 years in Google’s office in Australia. Google Wave will be available later this year and it will be a combination of email, IM.. It reminds me the iPhone [...]
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Umbrella Today? – The simplest weather forecast website!
Posted on 28. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
This is a brilliant and very easy idea. There are some ideas that can be too easy that nobody thinks about them. Umbrella Today is one of these ideas. It is a very simple website. The user just put his or her Zip Code (US only) and asks if he has to take his umbrella. [...]
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Obama – the New President of the US
Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Finally! This is the new President. A historic day for all the Americans! A historic day for the whole world! Yes, we did!
Barack Obama, gave a great speech in front of 200,000+ people in Hyde Park, Chicago,IL. He appeared in front of the people, that were waiting for hours there, with his family…
Obama thanked Sen. [...]
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The 30 minute ad of Obama
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
Today at 8pm was live the 30minute Obama’s ad. It was the most expensive ad in the history. This ad was on the air simultaneously in the channels FOX, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, UniVision, BET and TV One. The cost of this ad was approximately $3-$5 millions!
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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 blog
Mercent
October 22, 2008
Seattle
6
12%
Seattle Times
Dell
October 22, 2008
Round Rock, Texas
8,900
Reuters
imeem
October 22, 2008
San Francisco, CA
20
25%
TechCrunch
Mahalo
October 22, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
6
10%
TechCrunch
TicketMaster
October 22, 2008
New York, NY
300
5%
Billboard.biz
Veoh
October 21, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
15
Silicon [...]
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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 Max!
Some [...]
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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 [...]
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Nakheel Tower – The tallest scyscraper in the world!
Posted on 06. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
Nakheel announced that they will build the tallest skyscraper in the world. Nakheel Tower,will be built in Dubai, and its height will be 1200 meters!!! Responsible for the construction will be an Australian company (Woods Bagot) and the total cost will be $61 billions! The tower will be ready in 10 years!
Besides this tower there [...]
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New idea of Google
Posted on 09. Sep, 2008 by Nikos.
Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites, the company said Monday.
The new program expands a two-year-old service that allows Google News users to search the archives of some major newspapers and magazines, including The New [...]
