Description: Target, Nordstrom and other big chains are pinning their hopes of attracting shoppers on social media.
Source: TheLedger.com
Date: Apr 25, 2014
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Description: Dylan DeNeve of Brooklyn dined on homemade baby food of vegetable purées, delicately seasoned with leeks, red peppers, cumin and thyme, prepared by her mother, Alexandra, a lawyer. In Atlanta, Wes and Hadley Stewart enjoyed homemade mashed-up kale, butternut squash and ancient grains.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Apr 25, 2014
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Description: Fireball Cinnamon Whisky is known in the spirits industry as a challenge shot. It’s an orange beverage that comes in a clear bottle with a prancing demon on the label. It tastes like a syrupy incarnation of Wrigley’s Big Red gum. It’s sweet, with a spicy burn.
Source: Businessweek.com – video report
Date: Apr 25, 2014
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Description: Tumblr CEO David Karp talks about his relationship with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and how his company has changed.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Apr 17, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/04/17/t-tumblr-david-karp-mayer-yahoo.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: CEO Mary Barra says that her company is not focused on the ‘cost elements’ of the safety fix and that GM is ‘gonna do the right thing.’
Source: CNN.com – video report
Date: Apr 16, 2014
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Description: “Stress and burnout are the diseases of our civilization.” Media mogul Arianna Huffington says we must lean back to succeed.
Source: CNN.com – video report
Date: Apr 15, 2014
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Description: In brand strategy, short-term retail may not be so temporary after all.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Apr 18, 2014
Link: http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/18/pop-up-shop-storefront/?iid=SF_F_River
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Description: Every seat that goes unsold at the three-venue Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles is lost revenue. And every night Jim Royce, director of marketing, communications and sales for the nonprofit company, faces a delicate balancing act between pricing those extra seats to move and protecting their value–while not angering core subscribers who paid full price in advance.
Source: Entrepreneur.com
Date: Apr 13, 2014
Link: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232161
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Description: Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe tells CNNMoney’s Laurie Segall why Facebook became interested in buying his company.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Apr 11, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/04/11/t-oculus-facebook-brendan-iribe.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: President Barack Obama signed two executive actions that made compensation from federal contractors more transparent, with hopes of closing the gender pay gap.
Source: CNN.com – video report
Date: Apr 11, 2014
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