China's largest search engine Baidu is planning to acquire two leading app stores in the country for $1.9 billion, as the company seeks to expand its presence in the mobile Internet space. Baidu on Monday said it signed an agreement to ...
Tags: baidu, Computer Products, web service, APP
Industry product design and merchandising expert Jena Hall will be working with Somerton Dwelling as it undergoes a rebranding initiative. Somerton said it has retained Hall as a consultant to develop new merchandising and "integrated ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Industry product design, product design
In order to create an innovative team, improve salesperson’s marketing service capability, enhance their service awareness, and increase customers’ satisfaction, SAIC-IVECO HONGYAN Company organizes a marketing competition. ...
Tags: IVECO, Transportation
The Fashion Design Council of India, India's apex body for fashion design, announces the dates and line-up for the fourth edition of its magnificent PCJ Delhi Couture Week 2013. Spanning five days, the fashion event of the season, the PCJ ...
Tags: Apparel, Fashion Design
Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea broke ground Tuesday on its planned 359,000-square-foot store here. The store, on an 18.4-acre tract at Interstate 35 and Johnson Drive, southwest of Kansas City, Mo., is slated to open fall 2014. The ...
Tags: Ikea, Furniture, Furnishing
Microsoft will release Windows 8.1 to computer and tablet makers in late August, a company executive said today. Tami Reller, the CFO of the Windows group, announced the date during the opening keynote address of Microsoft's Worldwide ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Windows 8.1
LG is using a new video to promote an Aug. 7 event in New York City, evidently to unveil its new G2 smartphone running a faster Snapdragon 800 processor. The G2 would be the successor to the Optimus G, first launched last September with a ...
Tags: Smartphone, LG
Playtex Bras, one of America’s best-selling bra brands, is launching its most comprehensive marketing effort with a new campaign, Be Uniquely You. The campaign celebrates women’s uniqueness and individuality and reinforces ...
Tags: Playtex, Apparel, Women's Clothes
Furniture, electronics and appliances buying group BrandSource has launched a program that encourages BrandSource store shoppers to post online reviews about their experiences on sites such as Yelp and Google. The new program "makes it ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Home accessories brand Surya has unveiled a vignette display system it says is proven to increase rug sales by up to four times. Surya Complements provides retailers a space-conscious way to showcase rugs from the company's selection of ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Loloi is launching four new rug collections for the Atlanta International Area Rug Market, July 11-14, and the Las Vegas Market, July 29-Aug. 2. In addition, the rug manufacturer will display nine collections that debuted in High Point in ...
Tags: Rug Market, Textile, Rug
German publishers will disappear from Google News on Aug. 1 unless they opt in to the service as Google seeks to comply with a new German law. But the publishers said on Monday that this is not good enough, they want a share in Google's ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google
The American Coatings Association (ACA) is seeking nominations for the Joseph J. Mattiello Lecture Award, to be presented at its American Coatings Conference, April 7-9, 2014, in Atlanta, Ga. Nominations must be received by Aug. 31, 2013. ...
Tags: ACA, Mattiello Memorial Lecture, Construction&Decoration
Jesse Schell, CEO, Schell Games, and Nolan Bushnell, Former CEO, Atari, will kick off the 2013 Serious Play Conference (SPC) Tuesday – Thursday, Aug. 20 – 22, 2013, with a keynote address at DigiPen Institute of Technology in ...
From time to time I hear from readers who are convinced the Affordable Care Act will ruin us all financially. Not happening so far. Instead, it has already saved consumers billions. Exhibit A: In 2012, the law directly saved consumers ...
Tags: Obamacare, Health&Medicine