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| 7 Tips for Your Summertime Job Search | | 1:59:03 AM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Summer may be the perfect time to sit back in a beach chair and relax, but it is also the one of the best times to find a job or internship. However, going through the interview process in the summer can be even more challenging than it is at other points of the year for a number of reasons. Fortunately, hiring managers have some useful advice that just might get you hired.
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| China Opens Great Firewall for Fortune Global | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:21 PM | Quartz |
| The western Chinese city of Chengdu will host the Fortune Global Forum of business leaders today through Saturday, June 8. And to the great delight of reporters covering the event, China has temporarily ruptured the Great Firewall: Facebook and Twitter are now accessible. The organizers even created a hashtag for the event to allow Twitter users to follow updates.
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| Nook Seeks an Edge With $2 E-Books | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 5:58 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| It's not easy being Nook. With Amazon Kindle's dominant share of the e-book market — not to mention all of the exclusives Amazon is landing through its own publishing imprints and self-publishing platform — the Barnes & Noble-owned subsidiary has struggled to convince e-book readers to shop at its e-bookstore over its rival's. That's why Nook is now investing in original content.
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| Facebook to Streamline Ad Units, Remove Half | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:16 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In an effort to make its ad units more friendly to marketers, Facebook announced on Thursday it planned to streamline its offerings from 27 to roughly half that figure. Facebook also plans to axe Offers for online deals, though it plans to keep Offers for offline deals and is bringing elements of Sponsored Stories into a more generalized unit that will include social information like Likes and comments on the top of the ad.
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| Report: Apple Will Launch Trade-In Program to Lift iPhone 5 Sales | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:44 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple is planning to launch a new trade-in program later this month in an effort to increase the number of customers upgrading to the most recent iPhone, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the situation. Bloomberg reports that Apple will partner with Brightstar Corp, the wireless distributor that it has worked with for trade-in promotions on products sold by AT&T and T-Mobile.
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| Coke's Latest Cool Innovation: Ice Bottles | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:25 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Coca-Cola, which recently introduced a can that splits in two, is messing with its bottle design as well. In Colombia, the brand recently rolled out bottles made of ice that, if the video above is to be believed, doesn't result in bottles melting in your hands and frozen liplock. That plus weather and potential health issues may put the kibosh on global expansion.
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| Finally: A Free, Viable Analytics Dashboard for Tumblr | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 1:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| In November, Tumblr announced that it would finally give marketers access to analytics via a partnership with Union Metrics. The product proved pretty costly, however, with plans beginning at $500 per month. On Thursday, Union Metrics announced it will soon launch a free beta version of its Tumblr analytics platform.
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| Restroom Drunk Driving Stunt Will Scare the Crap Out of You | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 12:20 PM | Christine Erickson |
| London's Department for Transportation is scaring the crap out of young men in public restrooms — for a good cause. The THINK! campaign is a video titled #PubLooShocker that aims to prevent drinking and driving. In the video, created by advertising agency Leo Burnett London, a fake mirror acts as a car windshield. SEE ALSO: More U.S.
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| Customers Chastize Verizon on Facebook Over NSA Snooping | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:20 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| The Guardian reported last night that the National Security Agency has been collecting phone records from millions of Verizon customers in the United States. The morning after the news broke, frustrated customers are overrunning the Verizon Wireless Facebook page — some even threatening to quit the company completely.
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| 20 Important African Startups to Watch | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:04 AM | Monty Munford |
| Whether it’s ecommerce in Nigera, price comparison in South Africa or mobile advertising in Tanzania, African startups are not only changing their continent, but the world.
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| Can a Social Media Whiz Help This Cheesemonger? | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:25 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Jill Erber graduated with a computer science degree from the University of Chicago in 1998, but instead of coding she wound up getting into cheesmongering. Erber's restaurant/cheese boutique Cheesetique was a hit right from the start in 2004. By 2008, it had outgrown its original "shoebox-sized" location in the Del Rey neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., and by 2011 had opened up a second location in nearby Arlington.
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| Twitter Inks Deal with Ad Giant WPP to Expand Data-Driven Marketing | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:18 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Continuing its effort to rapidly scale its ad operations and expand its data for advertisers, Twitter inked a deal with WPP, one of the "big four" global advertising holding companies. According to a release from WPP, the deal will focus on tapping and interpreting Twitter's data. The agreement spans several WPP units including GroupM, Kantar and digital agencies like Wunderman.
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