Fans of so-called social games devote hours of time—and often, real-life money—to building their personal alternate lives. There's definitely some emotional investment for many players, too. What recourse do they have when the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, webgame
Social media sites such as Facebook are not just for singles looking for dates or college kids. In fact, social media marketing is a must for almost all pet enterprises. In addition to the site's high visibility, it's a great way to ...
Tags: pet, pet business
Carte Blanche Group is launching four new My Blue Nose Friends characters this week. The new characters - numbers 108 to 111 in the collection - are named Smoo the Cow, Comedy the Hyena, Spirit the Lemur and Twist the Snake. The brand's ...
Tags: toy market, toy
Mattel is giving the 65 year-old Scrabble brand a new look and feel for 2013. Following extensive consumer insights, the firm will launch a high impact multi-layered marketing campaign with a new creative. The promotion demonstrates ...
Tags: Facebook page, app, internet
General Motors will resume its advertising relationship with Facebook, reverting its decision one year ago to cease ties with the social networking giant. Industry Journal Automotive News reports that GM and Facebook are back on positive ...
Harrods is now stocking the full range of A Girl for All Time dolls. Following a refurbishment last summer, the store is showcasing the new range in the Toy Kingdom, found on the third floor. The multi-award-winning dolls will be ...
Tags: Time Dolls, Dolls, Toys
To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then ...
Tags: Facebook, social network
Babies"R"Us announced the introduction of specially designed t-shirts as part of the company's exclusive Truly Scrumptious by Heidi Klum collection to help inspire creativity among kids, while raising awareness for its longtime charitable ...
Tags: Apparel, baby Apparel
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association announced the launch of its Facebook page for its scholarship and partner programs The Facebook page is a resource for AAMA members and prospective applicants to receive exclusive ...
Tags: AAMA, Facebook Page, Scholarship, Partner Programs
The entry deadline is fast approaching—Friday, March 29—for the first round of Saris' 2013 Bike Corral Contest, in which one winner will get a car parking space converted to a 10-bike parking facility. Saris received more than ...
Tags: Saris Bike, Bike, Transportation
Mobicip, the best-selling parental control and internet safety service for mobile devices, announced the availability of HTTPS filtering as a part of its free and premium offering for family, school and business customers. "Mobicip is ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Mobicip
A pair of MIT professors and security researchers whose work paved the way for modern cryptography have been named winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing." Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA professor of ...
Tags: Computer Products, soft ware, google
That hour of sleep that Americans gave up last weekend with the advent of Daylight Saving Time comes with a steep economic cost, according to a study commissioned by cushioning major Carpenter Co. The cost: $434 million. Carpenter Co. and ...
Tags: Daylight Saving Time, Carpenter, US
The Federal Court, last month, ruled in favour of the beverage company after it argued the Northern Territory government’s 10c deposit recycling scheme – introduced in January 2012 and similar to a scheme that has been running ...
Specially marked bottles of Fanta beverages in Australia reveal an invitation to customers through temperature changes on the label wherein consumers were invited to join in an interactive campaign offering valuable prizes. The specialty ...