Saturday, March 28, 2015

AP Big Story: From new logos to New Coke: when corporations make mistakes

From AP,

From new logos to New Coke: when corporations make mistakes.

NEW YORK (AP) — Corporations spend millions to make sure their products, logos, and branding and marketing are top of mind for consumers in a positive way. But that means that when corporate missteps happen or marketing campaigns are a flop, they can go viral, too. Here's a look at some major corporations' missteps and their impact.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-logos-new-coke-when-corporations-make-mistakes/


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Wait, what? Check out these weird gadgets

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Wait, what? Check out these weird gadgets

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/saltzman/2015/03/28/weird-gadgets/70484614/


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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The Economist | Venezuela’s regime: Tyranny looms

The Economist
Venezuela's regime
Faced with growing unrest and the prospect of losing parliamentary elections, the president is ratcheting up repression

CARACAS

IT WAS a military-style operation, of the kind you would mount to collar a dangerous drug lord. On the afternoon of February 19th dozens of agents of Venezuela's state security service, Sebin, armed with automatic weapons and a sledgehammer (but no arrest warrant) burst into a suite of offices on the sixth floor of a tower block in El Rosal, a normally quiet district of Caracas. Their quarry was not some villain but the 59-year-old mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. After a day and a half in Sebin's custody he was sent to a military jail to await trial on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's president.



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The Economist | Venezuela’s crackdown: A slow-motion coup

The Economist
Venezuela's crackdown
The authoritarian regime is becoming a naked dictatorship. The region must react

VENEZUELA'S "Bolivarian" regime is lurching from authoritarianism to dictatorship. On February 19th it arrested the elected mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. Then it moved to expel Julio Borges, a moderate opposition leader, from the National Assembly—a fate already suffered by his colleague, María Corina Machado, ejected last year. Leopoldo López, another opposition leader, has been in jail for a year and is now on trial. Almost half the opposition's mayors now face legal action. The regime's favourite charge to level at hostile politicians is plotting to overthrow the government, often in conspiracy with the United States. But it is the president, Nicolás Maduro, who is staging a coup against the last vestiges of democracy. Venezuelans call it an autogolpe, or "self-coup".



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Busy Is a Sickness | Scott Dannemiller

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-dannemiller/busy-is-a-sickness_b_6761264.html


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