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Facebook has enlisted Taiwan’s HTC to help them produce a new smartphone, nicknamed “Buffy”. It will run on a tweaked version of Android and have Facebook’s services deeply integrated into the phone. Because they have heavily modified the Android system, they may not be able to use Google’s services, such as a media player and […]

A few weeks ago during Comm 101 Tutorial, we discussed Coca-Cola’s support of the World Wildlife Fund’s Arctic Home campaign. In short, Coca-Cola is donating 2 million dollars to the WWF over five years, and match consumer donations up to 1 million dollars until March of 2012. Also, they will be changing the colour of […]

The following entry is a response to a blog post written by Robert Frank on Wall Street Journal Blogs. Robert Frank discusses a new study by HNW Inc that reveals that half of the top earners in the U.S., or as the Occupy movement calls them, “the 1%”, don’t think that they are part of […]

Read Dorfam’s post here. If someone asked me which one of the three I would choose, I would choose money or power off the top of my head. But after giving it some thought, I would not choose power, because while power can be used to do good and change the world positively, it can […]

  The major Blackberry outage that occurred last month left most of its 70 million worldwide users angry, frustrated, and without Internet and email services for four days.  This only further degraded RIM’s (Research in Motion) reputation, as Blackberry smartphones are becoming less popular and iPhones are seemingly taking over the smartphone market. Scrambling to […]

H&M is one of the largest chain clothing retailers in the world. With over 1500 stores worldwide and constantly expanding, H&M is at the forefront of fashion, offering chic styles at low prices. They offer a wide range of women’s, men’s, and children’s clothing, ranging from stylish basics to high fashion pieces, and their collections […]

J.C. Penney is introducing a new in-store gift boutique called Wrapt Boutique, which features around 300 products, most being luxury goods that consumers can just grab and go. The boutique caters to hassled shoppers looking for easy gift purchases (ie: for Christmas). “Our customer is pressed for time. We wanted to pull it together for […]

Image source Starting yesterday (October 4), Starbucks’ new rewards program is in effect. Up until now, Starbucks has had no rewards program for loyal customers, which is surprising as many cafes and eateries nowadays have some sort of rewards program. Prior to this, Starbucks only had its “Starbucks card” program: you had to register a […]

Read Barbara’s post here. Image source Apple has been building hype for their new phone that was scheduled to be unveiled this morning. Naturally, people assumed that the new product would be the iPhone 5, because what else could follow the iPhone 4? Apple underwhelmed the public with the release of the iPhone 4S, which […]

TOMS shoes are extremely popular nowadays, especially among youths and also among adult women too. TOMS’ promise to its customers is that when you buy a pair of shoes, TOMS will donate another pair to a child in need, or as their slogan says, “One for One”. On the company website, the founder, Blake Mycoskie, […]