Some New York Times Articles to Appear Free on Starbucks App

Members of the Starbucks loyalty program will be able to read daily and weekend briefings from The Times, as well as other articles recommended by Starbucks, the two companies said.


Former StrawberryFrog GCD Gets a New LIFE

Modernized Urban Marketplaces – Barcelona's Ninot Market Recently Underwent a Design Overhaul (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Located in Barcelona near the Square of Catalonia, the Ninot Market recently underwent a massive overhaul that has seen the modernization of the food market. With its name translating to “the…

Gigantic Public Saunas – The Arctic Circle Houses the World's Largest Public Sauna (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Arctic Circle is home to many animals that tolerate the cold, as well as the world’s largest public sauna. Though the region is known for its frigid temperatures, this sauna brings the…

Under the Influence

UNDER THE INFLUEN$E documentary sneak preview from UNDERtheINFLUEN$E on Vimeo. Under the guise of democracy, huge global corporations have purchased our politicians and are writing laws that poison our planet and dismantle our democratic process. Corporations have usurped democracy by using their vast wealth to influence politics and silence the citizen voice in government. All natural living systems are in rapid decline, pushing the human race ever closer to extinction. Despite enacted environmental protections, global corporations have recklessly abused the four natural resources that we rely on for life (air, soil, fresh water and oceans) as an open sewer for their toxic wastes with blatant disregard for humankind. Neither the environmental crisis nor the many other social and economic crises we face can be addressed until democracy is restored and this cycle of corruption is broken by corporate money being removed from politics. UNDER THE INFLUEN$E focuses on what can and is being done by conscious and committed citizens, movements and businesses to reverse the ecological destruction and take back democracy.

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Manipulated Sphere Buildings – This Circular Architecture Design was Inspired by Cirque du Soleil (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) University of Applied Arts students Lenka Petráková, Viki Szándor, Piotr K Prokopowicz and Roman Hajtmánek created this circular architecture design for their 2015 Graduate Show.

The design…

31 Pop-Up Retail Projects – From Pop-Up Auto Retailers to Clothing Repair Pop-Ups (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Pop-up retail is a great way for retailers to get their products and their underlying message across. The advantage of pop-up retail is the ability to interact and sell in different places, and…

Three Numbers to Watch When Apple Reports Earnings


There’s a lot to live up to when Apple releases earnings results after the market close today: Driven by iPhone sales, it’s beaten analysts’ estimates for profit in eight straight quarters and for revenue in seven of those.

The anticipation is building this time as well: The profit projection has climbed about 2.5% in the past four weeks as analysts at Pacific Crest Securities, Mizhuo Securities, UBS AG and others foresee strong sales for the smartphone.

Apple may report profit of $1.81 a share on revenue of $49.4 billion, based on the average of analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg. To get there, here are some of the key milestones the company needs to hit, based on the projections:

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Verizon in Q2 Adds 9,000 'Skinny Bundle' Subs


Despite having its promotional messages blacked out in a number of key markets, Verizon in the second quarter managed to sign up 9,000 new customers for its new “skinny bundle” of cable network packages.

Speaking during the telco’s quarterly earnings call, Verizon Executive VP and CFO Fran Shammo told investors that Verizon’s FiOS TV service had added 26,000 new subs in the period spanning April 1 through June 30, of which “more than one-third” opted for one of its slimmed-down Custom TV packages.

Mr. Shammo said that while the initial demand for the Custom TV offering exceeded Verizon’s expectations, many are choosing the cheapest package available, opting for the basic skinny bundle and not adding any extra channels. “I will tell you, as far as the number of genres they take, it’s less than what we had anticipated,” he said, before adding that while that will “put pressure on the top line,” down the road it will “improve profitability from a programming perspective.”

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Yahoo Got Brands to Buy More Ads at Higher Prices Than a Year Ago


Yahoo has been trying to draw a line in the sand between what its business has historically been and what it needs to be for advertisers to keep giving the company their money.

That line separates the old money Yahoo makes from desktop search ads and standard banners and the new money it’s starting to make from mobile, video, native and Tumblr ads, which the company kinda-confusingly groups into one revenue category called MaVeNS. And slowly but surely more of Yahoo’s business appears to be crossing that line, indicating that CEO Marissa Mayer’s turnaround strategy may be working.

The second quarter of 2015 marked the first time since Ms. Mayer took over as Yahoo CEO in July 2012 that the company was able to get brands to buy more search and display ads and, on average, pay more for both of those ad formats than they did a year ago.

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Kevin Sessums Parts Ways With FourTwoNine

The writer says that it was time to move on from the upstart glossy founded by dot429.com, the gay and lesbian professional social network.


Mechanica Tells Comeback Story for Saucony

Energy-Positive Homes – Solcer House Generates More Energy Than It Needs

(TrendHunter.com) Solcer House is an incredibly innovative eco-friendly home, designed by a team from Cardiff University in Wales, that is claimed to be the UK’s first low-cost, low-carbon energy-positive house….

Facebook dá mais opções para controlar distribuição de vídeos

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O Facebook tem focado nos últimos meses em melhorar cada vez mais suas ferramentas de exibição de vídeos. Há algum tempo eles melhoraram os Insights específicos para esse tipo de mídia e até experimentam com a opção de exibir vídeos flutuantes. Agora o Facebook melhorou o que faltava: a publicação e distribuição dos vídeos. A […]

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Office Depot OfficeMax "Cool table" (2015) :15 (USA)

Hell yeah you can sit at the cool table with your new backpack. Go get ’em!

Office Depot OfficeMax "New gear feeling" (2015) :30 (USA)

Nothing like that new gear feeling. Back to school already?

Office Depot OfficeMAX "Hand raise" (2015) :15 (USA)

No one’s attempted a full hand raise in AP Calculus. Until now. Because you’ve got new gear and you’re gonna go back to school like a champ.

TDA Boulder Promotes Merrick Backcountry as ‘Wolf Tested’

Gawker and Jezebel Shut Down Briefly Amid Dispute

After an internal staffing debate over a controversial post was made public, the site has not published since Monday.


HP "Jane" (2015) 1:12 (USA)

HP’s new 3D Capture Stage makes personal 3D printing easier than ever before. And nothing highlights that feature better than the story of a woman named Jane who loses her childlike sense of wonder completely by the time she gets to college and has to like, learn stuff (probably existentialism or the works of August Strindberg or something) and then a few years later gets taken to task for trying to decorate her office cubicle, only to climb the corporate ladder in a haze of ennui, pills, divorce, alcoholism and failed inter-office romances. What?

They chose The Children’s Silverlake Choir’s rendition of Roger Hodgson’s “The Logical Song,” as the soundtrack. But hell, the underlying tone of this spot is so surprisingly dark, they could have gone with Pink Floyd instead of Supertramp. Another Brick In The Wall, part 2, anyone?

Thank god there’s HP, tho! Oh, and offspring we can live vicariously through. Let’s be honest, the daughter was how she got the spark back, anyway.