LONDON – Microsoft is acquiring market research firm Greenfield Online for $486m (£265.8m), but will only keep its European shopping comparison business Ciao and sell off its online surveys business to an undisclosed buyer.
LONDON – Tesco has abandoned its controversial plans to build one of Gordon Brown’s eco-towns at Hanley Grange, near Cambridge, following widespread local opposition.
LONDON – Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest media group, has indicated it could sell 15% of RTL, the European TV group, fuelling speculation it will use the money to finance the acquisition of ITV.
DENVER (AdAge.com) — Let me be the first to admit when I'm wrong. As much as I thought the whole Invesco Field thing would look like a Riefenstahl production, it didn't strike me as such … even though I was sitting with 60,000 Barack Obama supporters. (I know Invesco holds more than that, but I'm accounting for the approximately 2 million journalists who tag along for conventions.)
Resumé Thursday Augist 28: “Red Cross backs up adbogger“
“It was a powerful reaction, and several employed by the Red Cross received threats. To add to that, names and phonenumbers were published on porn sites, which was unpleasant”, says Marika Bystedt, chairwoman of the Red Cross Youth association
Yesterday I was on page six in Metro, Sweden – which can also be found here on the web with the headline: “Mom must have dropped me on the head when I was a kid“. Sorry mom.
How did you build up the site?.
By being stubborn. When I began (in 1996) I had to get my own server. I don’t just write, I run the server, I digitize the commercial films, and I’ve built the database. I don’t add stuff without the creators permission, but since the arrival of youtube and myspace commercials are being thrown around left and right.
LONDON – Baroness Peta Buscombe, chief executive of the Advertising Association, will lead the Green Awards judging panel, which will also include the inventor Trevor Baylis.
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To most people, the sight of tens of thousands people gathering for conventions may look like political events. But to corporate America, they are marketing opportunities.
(TrendHunter.com) New York Fashion Week is coming, so start saving for those perfect shoes. To tempt you, here are thirty great designs that span the entire spectrum of fashion forward footwear. If you don’t find at least…
(TrendHunter.com) Chris Jordan has done it again by creating art with a message… using a medium that is part of the message? Yeah, I don’t know how to really describe the use of cigarette packaging as a medium to create…
(TrendHunter.com) Forget Google. I want to work for Oakley. I want a cubicle with a B 52 Bomber as an office chair. I want to look up and see bolts a foot wide holding the building together. I want to feel like I am in…
(TrendHunter.com) Jacques Blanc is a modern-day King Midas, a man whose London-based company Alchemist is known by opulent trendsetters worldwide as the path to true luxury. Alchemist specializes in covering cars and their…
Toyota is a formidable name in the automobile manufacturing industry, entering in the top 5 most fuel efficient vehicles in the car (Prius – 1st) and truck (Tacoma – 2nd) categories. Now Toyota makers…
Our coverage of the political season continues.
CNet: “Ads seeking casual sexual encounters through the Denver Craigslist site increased an average of roughly 70 percent to 80 percent over the same days of the week earlier in August.”
(TrendHunter.com) The Icelandic Opera House in Reykjavik, Iceland is perhaps the most appropriate place in the world for a glass cube-shaped opera house replete with color-changing LED lighting.
The 820-seat Icelandic…
BackType is a website that lets people find, follow and share comments from across the web.
Comments play an important role in social media; there are millions of comments written online every single…
On one 30-second spot to promote the postseason, Major League Baseball evokes the tortured history of the Chicago Cubs, taps in to the iconography of new media and makes fun of the president.
(TrendHunter.com) Oh, this pains me. It just isn’t right. But LOL Cats has launched EngrishFunny.com. Justified by the fact that it’s not showing the actual people butchering the language, just the graphic artists, the…
(TrendHunter.com) Toyota is a formidable name in the automobile manufacturing industry, entering in the top 5 most fuel efficient vehicles in the car (Prius – 1st) and truck (Tacoma – 2nd) categories. Now Toyota makers…
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