FINALLY: Here Are Those Star Wars Condoms You've Been Waiting For
Italian art director and graphic designer Benedetto Papi has created a line of condoms for the most sexually active subset of society: Star Wars nerds. Click here to see the condoms> From Jabba the...
View ArticlePaul Berry, The Technical Genius Behind Huffington Post, Tells Us What It's...
Want to hear from top startups like Fab.com and Lot18? And NY's top investors? Join 800 innovation junkies at the Startup conference on May 3, 2012! Register now!A few months ago, the respected CTO of...
View ArticleOne Glaring Reason Best Buy Won't Be Able To Recapture Its Lost Sales (BBY)
With the ever-present Amazon wrecking it on the online front, Best Buy has been looking to downsize its brick-and-mortar footprint to help it compete. Over the weekend, Best Buy announced the...
View ArticleThe Only Surefire Way To Know If Someone Is Lying
A lot of experts adopt specific approaches on how to spot a liar, but the truth is, it's hard to break down human behavior to these basic interpretations. Carol Kinsey Goman at Forbes reports that the...
View ArticleThis Is The Biggest Problem With Sony's Brand
Sony has been left behind by the "tech parade" and hasn't turned a profit since 2008, according to a recent report by Hiroko Tabuchi at the New York Times. Tabuchi says it's because the company hasn't...
View ArticleOne World Trade Center's New Logo Uses The Obama Campaign's Typeface
The first marketing materials for One World Trade Center, the 1,776-foot skyscraper rising on the site where the Twin Towers were destroyed in September 2001, use bold, blocky lettering and a...
View ArticleI Have Sex With My Co-Founder. And I Like It.
I have sex with my co-founder. And I like it, though I'll let said co-founder speak for herself. As a direct result of this sex, we have birthed three children. While not having sex, we've started...
View ArticleYour Company Might Think It Can Control Your Facebook Account Soon
This Series On The Future Of The Workplace Is Brought To You By Cognizant. Should an employer have some kind of claim on your online activities? The workplace of the future will likely say yes. Your...
View ArticleTOUR: Inside Redscout's New York Office
Founded in 2000, brand strategy firm Redscout still feels like a startup. Fewer than 50 people work at the New York office on 25th and Broadway, with another 10 working in San Francisco. There's a ping...
View ArticleSoftware Quality Assurance Engineers Are The Happiest Workers In America
After surveying more than 100,000 employees about their workplace culture, management, job rewards, and more, CareerBliss found that software quality assurance engineers have the happiest job in...
View ArticleThis Tiny Brand Strategy Firm Makes The Big Decisions For PepsiCo, Dominos...
PepsiCo is a $66 billion corporation with nearly 300,000 employees. It has an enormous marketing department. It also has relationship with TBWA Worldwide, a giant advertising company. Yet Pepsi trusts...
View ArticleNow We Know Why Rite Aid Will Probably Never Beat CVS And Walgreens
Rite Aid Pharmacy can blame itself for perpetually lagging behind drugstore rivals like CVS and Walgreens. A new report claims the chain has trouble keeping products listed in sales ads nearly 80...
View ArticleHere's Where To Find Out How HuffPo Scored A Pulitzer
Start by checking out the coverage that snagged the Pulitzer, Beyond The Battlefield. But what about the deeper story of how Huffington Post grew from a news aggregator to a journalistic force in its...
View ArticleHow Ford's Chief 'Futurist' Figures Out What Consumers Will Want Decades From...
If there's anything auto companies have learned in recent years, it's that you can't trust the status quo. A huge part of Ford's turnaround involved listening to consumers and figuring out exactly what...
View ArticleThe Huge Leadership Lesson Sam Palmisano Learned From Doing Business In Japan
IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano disrupted his industry, and like any good executive, he did it because he knows how to lead. One of the most difficult parts of leadership is taking a step back and...
View ArticleCheck Out Coca-Cola's Still Massive Growth In Emerging Markets (KO)
Coca-Cola just reported Q1 earnings of $0.89 per share, beating expectations. Coca Cola which operates across 200 countries reported growth in every geographic operating group reported volume growth....
View ArticleWATCH: T-Mobile Girl Abandons Her Pink Dresses In Favor Of Black Leather
T-Mobile girl Carly Foulkes will abandon her famous pink summer dresses in favor of a black leather biker suit and a 1000 cc Ducati super bike in a new campaign for the wireless carrier (video...
View Article14 Tax Day Freebies And Discounts To Take Advantage Of
It's that time of the year again — tax day. Many may describe it as a painful necessity, but on the bright side, there are plenty of retailers that are ready and willing to help soothe your tax...
View ArticleJetBlue's Founder Thought Alan Mulally Was 'Insane' To Become CEO Of Ford
One gigantic reason Ford is charging hard while its American auto brethren continue to struggle is CEO Alan Mulally. The company avoided government-sponsored bankruptcy and is back to profitability...
View ArticleMeet Ginny Bahr: She's Worked At Ad Agency JWT Since 1951 And Isn't Quitting...
Ginny Bahr, JWT's longest-serving employee, has been walking the ad agency's Madison Avenue and Lexington Avenue halls for 60 years—57 of them in high heels."JWT used to have a dress code where you had...
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