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AOL looks to reconnect with customers
Crain's New York Business
Feb 06Maureen Morrison, AdAge.com - AOL Inc. is searching for an agency to help it devise a new brand campaign in the hopes of reconnecting with consumers, Ad Age has learned. People familiar with a request-for-proposal sent out by AOL said the company is lo... »
Is Amazon Biting Off More Than It Can Chew?
TheStreet
Jan 30NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- From Apple to Google, Wal-Mart and Gilt Groupe, Amazon looks set to fight a complex, multi-front war in its search for fresh revenue. Reports also circled last week that the online retail giant could be targeting Netflix with a ... »
Pink slips showing: 10% of Gilt staff axed
New York Post
Jan 24Gilt Groupe’s CEO just slashed 10 percent off the company’s workforce.The online fashion discounter — whose ax-happy chief, Kevin Ryan, had lately denied reports about imminent pink slips — admitted yesterday it’s laying off between 80 and 90 of its 90... »
Go big blue! City businesses cheer Giants' win
Crain's New York Small Business
Jan 23When Lawrence Tynes kicked the Giants into the Super Bowl Sunday night, he also kicked off a frenzy at more than two dozen New York-area Modell's Sporting Goods stores.Modell's opened 28 of its local stores after the Giants' overtime victory against th... »
Layoffs at Gilt Groupe Complete: 90 Employees Let Go, Gilt City Closes Offices in Six Markets
The New York Observer
Jan 23Gilt Groupe's 900-some employees can rest easy, for now. In response to questions from Betabeat, the company confirmed this afternoon that the recent spate of layoffs is over. CEO Kevin Ryan initially estimated that about 50 people would be let go, how... »
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BoF Daily Digest | Beckham’s appeal, Marchetti ups stake, Magazine changes, Fashion tech boom, Scott Schuman Q&A
The Business of Fashion
Feb 02David Beckham Fetes H&M Launch in London (WWD) “It takes an unusual amount of sex appeal for a man to make a pair of long johns look good — and David Beckham has pulled it off. After serving as the face and body for Armani Underwear, Beckham decided to... »
J.C. Penney Permanently Cuts All Prices by 40 Percent, Will Hold Fewer Sales
The Cut
Jan 25As part of J.C. Penney's new pricing strategy, they're marking down all of their merchandise by at least 40 percent — permanently — so that shoppers don't have to wait for sales to get the best price. To make up for the revenue they'll sacrifice to do ... »
Women Have More Funding and Opportunity in NY Tech Scene
NYConvergence.com
Jan 24According to Ellie Cachette of ConsumerBell, a NY startup that helps companies manage prodcut recalls, the NY tech scene is more female-friendly. When she was raising, Cachette tells the New York Daily News that on the West Coast she got patronizing ad... »
Street Fight Daily: 01.24.12
Street Fight Mag
Jan 24A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...Gilt Groupe Cuts Include 10 Percent of Employees and Two Executives (AllThingsD)...Foursquare's an API Billionaire: 'Thousands per Second' (Programmable Web)..... »
The Power of Social Validation in Web Design
Imagemme Blog
Jan 23…By Amina AlTai Few of us are renegade enough to make decisions without social validation— in life and in our virtual behavior. More often than not, we look to others to determine how we should behave. Our sense of self is largely dictated by social ... »


