How Tablets — Not Phones — Have Taken Over The Lives Of TV Viewers
As more and more mobile devices proliferate the market, you might start noticing more iPhones or tablets in the lap of someone watching TV than bowls of popcorn.According to a new Nielsen report, 40...
View ArticleAfter Faltering In Europe, Facebook Moves A Key Ad Exec To London (FB)
Carolyn Everson, Facebook's vp/global marketing solutions, will move from new York to London for six months to find a replacement for Joanna Shields, the former vice-president and managing director of...
View ArticleJOB OF THE WEEK: VP, Marketing at Daily Candy
Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >>As part of our new partnership with CareerBuilder.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs...
View ArticleHow Walmart Won Its Facebook War Against Target (FB, WMT, TGT)
Walmart and Target have similarly large Facebook fan bases. But Walmart gets three times more fan engagement than Target and generates 3.5 times more fan "actions" than Target does, according to an...
View ArticleThese Wild New DVRs Will Spy On Your Living Room With Cameras And Microphones...
Google TV, Microsoft, Comcast, and now Verizon have all submitted patent applications to create televisions and DVRs that will watch you as you watch TV. Earlier this month, news came out that Verizon...
View ArticleHow Taco Bell Explains What Its Food Is To People In India
Niren Chaudhary, president of The New Standalone at Yum! Brands, spoke at Yum!'s investor conference and mentioned something interesting about what Taco Bell is doing in India.It's difficult to convey...
View ArticleUrban Outfitters Buys Yard Sale Clothes In Bulk And Resells Them To Hipsters...
Urban Outfitters buys clothes in bulk at yard sales and flea markets and then sells them in stores as "vintage." The retailer has done this for years, usually selling the used goods as promotions for...
View ArticleAn Inside Look At How The Huffington Post Runs Its 24/7 News Machine (AOL)
The Huffington Post launched a streaming-video news network called HuffPost Live on August 13.Since then, a team of reporters, producers, and on-air anchors have been broadcasting news and...
View ArticleThis Is What Arianna Huffington's Office Looks Like (AOL)
We got to check out Arianna's office during our tour of The Huffington Post. Here's where she spends her workdays—click on it to enlarge.Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation...
View ArticleA Conservative Group Can't Stop Freaking Out About JC Penney's Gay-Friendly Ads
Not everyone is feeling the holiday cheer towards the new JCPenney Christmas commercial starring Ellen DeGeneres and a gaggle of elves.One Million Moms is still angry that openly-lesbian Degeneres...
View ArticleThese Social Currency Wheels Show Why Everyone Loves Samsung And Forgot About...
In a new report, strategic consulting firm Vivaldi Partners takes a detailed look at what they call "social currency:" how brands can use social media to drive results, rather than as just another...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How Mobile Is Waging Battle For The Multi-Screen Living Room
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room.But home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers...
View ArticleThe Four Seasons Has A New Plan To Promote Itself As A Destination For Foodies
Instead of trying to turn all of its 90 restaurants into destination eateries, luxury hotel chain Four Seasons is taking a different approach to promote its dining venues.The company just launched a...
View ArticleFacebook Is Quietly Implementing A Plan To Destroy Television (FB)
Facebook's management has recently adopted a new mantra: that Facebook's audience is the equivalent of three Super Bowls every day. COO Sheryl Sandberg said it on the Q3 2012 earnings call. And...
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Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini. Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet. If you're the lucky winner...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: Use Your iPhone To Upload Your Face Onto The Body Of A 'Call...
"Call of Duty" has made it possible to turn real-life gamers into virtual soldiers.Millennial Media created a demo video showing how this can be done, and it looks pretty easy. All a user has to do is...
View ArticleLook Which News Corp. Exec Got His Wings Clipped When 'The Daily' Closed (NWS)
After Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. announced that its iPad news app, The Daily, would be closed down, the company shuffled its management ranks.The Daily’s editor-in-chief, Jesse Angelo, will become the...
View ArticleW Magazine Is 40 Years Old: Here Are Some Of Its Most Spectacular Covers
This year is W magazine's 40th anniversary. The oversized format of the women's fashion magazine — measuring 10 inches by 13 inches — allows the publication more space for its boundary-pushing covers....
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: This Morning-After Pillow Gets Men Out Of Cuddling
Axe has come up with a solution to the morning-after cuddling that men (allegedly) hate so much: an inflatable arm and chest that smells like Axe.The commercial seems like a parody, but it's actually...
View ArticleRON JOHNSON: Here's How JCPenney Will Return To Growth In 2013 (JCP)
It has been nearly a year since JCPenney CEO Ron Johnsonrevealed his plan to turn around the ailing retailer.And it has been quite a bumpy ride.David Moin at Women's Wear Daily spoke with Johnson about...
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