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The Dark Side of Web-Based Savings Schemes: No Free Launch

25 august, 2010

Groupon and a host of other Web-based spending incentive schemes, including location-based games like Foursquare, are transforming one corner of the marketing game. But for some retailers it’s bringing a double-edged benefit

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American Apparel’s Dov Charney Blames Financial Woes on Immigration Reform Again

25 august, 2010

American Apparel, the risqué-advertised and hipster-chic clothing retailer, is struggling to lift itself out of the financial dumps. The company’s debt has risen to $120.3 million, up more than 33% since March

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Next On iTunes: 99-Cent TV Episode Rentals?

25 august, 2010

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is in “advanced talks” with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, owner of Fox (among many other things), to add cheaper rentals of TV episodes on iTunes. Bloomberg also claims that CBS and Disney are in similar talks with Apple.

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Dell Puts Less Crap In a Box

25 august, 2010

Fact: most electronics manufacturers bury their products in excessive amounts of packaging. For proof, look no further than Dell, which managed to eliminate 18.2 million pounds of packaging since 2008 and 8.7 million pounds in the last year alone. So how did they do it

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Chances of E.T.s Increase: Remote Solar System Found, a Bit Like Ours

24 august, 2010

Astronomers have found the biggest cluster of exoplanets ever, the first in 15 years. The star at the center of the discovery is Sun-like, and there may even be an Earth-y planet still hiding in the data

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Knit Rider: Woven Car Is Part Overstock, Part Recycled Materials, Part Etsy

24 april, 2010

There is a certain regalness to the Woven Car, a picnic basket-like vehicle constructed from recycled and overstock materials.

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Woven Car Is Part Overstock, Part Recycled Materials, Part Etsy

23 april, 2010

There is a certain regalness to the Woven Car, a picnic basket-like vehicle constructed from recycled and overstock materials.

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John McAfee Redux

23 april, 2010

Belize is a wonderful country, and a great place to enjoy a vacation.

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Turn-by-Turn Google Maps on iPhone Steer Google, TomTom, Garmin to Dead End [Update]

23 april, 2010

When the Motorola Droid, the first Android 2.0 device, was released back in November, one of its most rightfully buzzworthy features was Google ’s brand-new Maps with Navigation.

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Coke + Emeco: Get Hitched, Spawn Chairs

12 april, 2010

Now you can have your Coke and sit on it too. On the eve of the world’s biggest furniture fair , two classic brands — Coca Cola and Emeco , manufacturers of the iconic 106 aluminum Navy chair — are announcing the rainbow-hued progeny of their new collaboration.

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