The 2016 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference is a wrap, but the marketing world is still buzzing about it. One of the most talked-about marketing masterpieces at this year’s SXSW was the astonishing installation of a 100-foot Ferris ...
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Net sales for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2014 at NYSE listed clothing distributor and retailer, American Apparel, Inc were down 9 per cent year over year. Net sales for the fourth quarter of 2014 declined 9 per cent from the ...
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A week after Steve Ballmer said he plans to step down as CEO of Microsoft, ValueAct Capital, one of its biggest investors, has secured the right to appoint its president to Microsoft's board. Microsoft has signed a "cooperation agreement" ...
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The Aussie slumped to a fresh 33-month low today as the US central bank signalled plans to rein in its stimulus program before the end of the year and China's economy showed more signs of a slowdown. At 5pm AEST, the Aussie was trading at ...
Intellectual Ventures, a large patent-licensing firm, has filed a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility while its first patent lawsuit is still pending in a Delaware count. The patent-licensing firm filed its second ...
Forrester founder and CEO George Colony has touted the shift from IT to business technology and urged CIOs to get closer to their marketing colleagues in the age of the customer. Speaking at Forrester’s CIO Forum in London and in an ...
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Tumblr is now putting ads in users' feeds on the desktop, in what could be the first move toward making sure the social blogging site is a profitable business for Yahoo. Tumblr started placing ads in users' streams on mobile devices in ...
Steven Stone stands by a banner promoting the back relief offered by his sleep sets. WILSONVILLE, Ore. - Steven Stone opened his first sleep shop more than two decades ago and has grown the business one mattress at a time, he says. An ...
Lyon announced today that on May 7th, a joint venture between newly-formed Lyon Capital Partners, LLC, (formerly Echelon Capital) and Revere Finance closed on the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Lyon Workspace Products, ...
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INTEL Capital, one of the world's biggest technology investment funds, may adjust its investment strategy to accommodate smaller Australian start-ups. Traditionally, Intel Capital has not been an angel investor or provided seed capital, ...
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SAP has moved to defend the users of its Sybase database software by filing suit against Pi-Net International, a "patent troll" that has filed several patent infringement lawsuits against SAP customers in the US financial services sector ...
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics ...
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A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics ...
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Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to security expert Darren Hayes, who says that corporations are unprepared to battle such attacks because of a shortage of ...
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The Isis joint venture of three wireless carriers announced the launch today of its new mobile wallet system in Salt Lake City and Austin using nine NFC-ready and Isis-ready smartphones sold by the carriers. Consumers interested in using ...
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