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Sharper Image Lives — as a Brand - WSJ.com
Mr. Salter envisions Sharper Image products being sold around the world via infomercials, Web sites and catalogs. Or they could be set up in the aisles of a Target or Best Buy. One possibility: a Sharper Image treadmill with a computer and GPS system…
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Think Like a Venture Capitalist and Change the Marketing Model - Advertising Age - Digital
he thing I don’t quite understand about agencies and brands is why they don’t go back to the 1950s and create their own content. At the early age of this new technology called television, they created “General Hospital,” they created the […]

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North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out - we mean it
The city of 4,500 residents has demanded that Google Maps remove images of North Oaks homes from the website’s Street View feature, where any Internet user can glimpse a home from the nearest road.
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Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet […]

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J. R. Simplot, Farmer Who Developed First Frozen French Fries, Dies at 99 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
J. R. Simplot, a billionaire who grew up in a sod-roofed log cabin and dropped out of school at 14, then fashioned an entrepreneurial career that included developing the first commercial frozen French fry, died on Sunday at […]

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I made a trip to Paris this winter to meet the French financier/corporate raider/industrialist Vincent Bollore. He was pretty much unknown in the U.S. until about a three or so years ago when he took over Havas, the French company that owns a bunch of ad agencies including Euro RSCG. It’s not that Euro’s a […]

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Robert Rauschenberg, Pioneer Of Pop Art Movement, Dies at 82 - WSJ.com
Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82.
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Five Questions For…Bill […]

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The Brooklyn Paper: Apple of their eye: Microsoft ‘banks’ on Brooklyn for first store
“We’ve talked to Apple about opening their first Brooklyn store, and we’ve also talked to Microsoft about opening the first retail store,” said Faith Hope Consolo, chairwoman of Prudential Douglas Elliman’s retail leasing and sales division.
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Costas Now: Bissinger Vs. Leitch
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Is This the World’s Cheapest Dress? - New York Times
Steve & Barry’s is to fashion what Tower once was to music. It’smanna, a store that sells stylish celebrity-branded clothes at prices that are absurdly inexpensive, lower than those at Old Navy, H & M
, undercutting even Wal-Mart by as […]

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BlackBerry Kickstart, the clamshell flip phone? We’re unveiling it to you for the first time! | The Boy Genius Report
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How to Buy a Flash-Based MP3 Player - Reviews by PC Magazine
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