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Big Kahunas Say Cheese
According to USA Today, Yahoo is acquiring Canadian photo-sharing company, Flickr. The startup, Flickr, lets people upload digital photos from computers and camera phones, publish photos in their blogs, share digital photo albums with anyone else who uses the service, and alert other users whenever they upload a new photo or album. Flickr, which currently offers a free beta product on its Web site, reassured members …
Quicksilver Makes Righteous Move
USA Today, proving it employs hipster copy editors, used the word "gnarly" in a headline today announcing Quicksilver's acquisition of Rossignol. According to the article, "The ups and downs of their key selling seasons can now be evened out," says P.K. Kannan, professor of marketing at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business. A $1.3 billion company based in Huntington Beach, Calif., Quiksilver …
Celebs “Move The Iron” For GM
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Pack Up The Suitcases
from Business Week: Venerable luggage maker Samsonite Corp. has sold its 100-acre campus in Denver to a California developer for $14.16 million, creating questions about its future in the city. Founded in Denver as Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Co. in 1910, Samsonite will continue to lease two buildings on the campus for a couple of years. It was not immediately clear Thursday whether the company would stay in Denver …
From The Ground On Down
Red Ink is running an interesting piece on Nike's Reuse-A-Shoe program. Reuse-A-Shoe is a key component of Nike's long-term commitment to waste elimination by helping to close the loop on the life cycle of literally millions of pairs of old, worn-out or otherwise unusable athletic shoe material. Nike Grind Rubber, from outsoles and manufacturing byproduct, goes into baseball and soccer fields, as well as golf …
Beyond The RSS Embrace
from Wired: Yahoo is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its website's popular features with two of the internet's fastest-growing activities -- blogging and social networking. Yahoo is testing the hybrid service, called Yahoo 360, with a small group of employees. The service is designed to enable Yahoo's 165 million users to pull content from the website's discussion groups, online photo …
One Love
from New York Times: The Pepsi-Cola Company, long famous for elaborate, expensive spots stuffed with celebrities, music and special effects, is forgoing them for the multimillion-dollar Pepsi One campaign, now getting under way. The TV commercials that helped introduce Pepsi One, which ran from 1998 to 2001 during high-profile programs like the Super Bowl and featured stars like Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kim Cattrall, are …
