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Month: November 2008
Pepsi White
Pepsi Japan (bottled and distributed by Suntory) has introduced a new yogurt flavored cola called Pepsi White. Better hurry up and get your bottle before it’s too late – this baby is going to be sold for a limited time only this winter.
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Come As You Are
Two different countries, two different companies and two different industries, but both of them using the same business line in their ad.
Crepaway is a Lebanese casual diner chain of restaurant and of course Avis is a worldwide icon in car rental industry (in this ad case, it is Avis Norway)
Can we call this coincidence?
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LinkedIn lays off 10 percent of staff
Business networking site LinkedIn is joining the long list of companies that have announced cuts in the last few weeks — it has laid off 36 employees, or about 10 percent of its total staff.
Last month, it announced $22.7 million in new funding, bringing its total backing to $100 million.
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CNN Is Cool With The Hologram
CNN is cool. In addition to the huge touchscreen “Magic Wall” (which was originally military technology), CNN’s Wolf Blitzer gets to play with Holograms during their coverage of the presidential elections.
CNN’s Jessica Yellin is the guinea pig, appearing virtually with Blitzer.
This hologram technology was created by SportVu an Israeli startup.
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Circuit City Closes Down 155 Stores
You know times are hard when giant companies start to trim down their operational costs by laying off workers, or even worse, closing down stores. Circuit City Stores, Inc., is one of them.
A total of 155 Circuit City stores that are underperforming and deemed to be unable to fit in with the company’s overall strategy will be closed, and these identified stores are located across 55 US media markets. The list of closing stores are available here.
These impacted stores will begin to offer closing sales a day after, and these sales will run until the current calendar year is over, or they have nothing else left to sell – whichever comes first.
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Barack Obama | 44th US President
Americans realized that the world did not hate them.
The world simply did not like George W. Bush.
Panasonic near deal to acquire Sanyo
The heads of Panasonic and Sanyo Electric have agreed in principle to a deal that would see Panasonic take over Sanyo, three people familiar with the matter said Sunday.
Acquiring Sanyo would put Panasonic in a leading position in the global market for rechargeable batteries, which is expected to grow strongly as the use of portable electronic devices and hybrid or electric vehicles expands.
Read full story here
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