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The digital world gives us the opportunity to imagine new worlds for brands and to create virtual spaces that brand audiences can navigate and explore. They can be updated, changed and modified to suit the times and most important they can be accessed by everyone from anywhere. Given the power and...
It’s clear that the financial pressures are running rampant right now in the capital-intensive network provider space. everything everywhere is a company, created as a result of these pressures and is the consolidation of T-Mobile and Orange mobile and digital businesses in the UK. It’s...
Campbells is one of America’s most iconic food brands and one immortalized by Andy Warhol in the 60s, but fast forward almost 50 years and the brand is not as revered as it once was, for today’s generation of Millennials, Campbells might be something you grew up with, but in a “food...
Xiaomi is one of the most interesting brands in China right now, founded by the charismatic 43 year-old Lei Jun, who controversially models himself on Steve Jobs and made a bunch of money selling a company to Amazon. Jun’s company, while modeling himself and some aspects of his phone design on...
Business Week’s latest issue has an interview with Sony’s new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, who became Sony’s CEO in April and built his reputation by building Playstation into a power brand. While Sony is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading brand names, it’s become something of a...
The news cycle within the world of new media is pretty rapid and it’s almost expected that we will hear some kind of announcements from the major players on a weekly basis. However, this week might be more important than others, because when you take a step back and look at what each of the major...
We are starting to see new media emerge from the flickers and shadows of old media designed to bring entirely new experiences to users. Music has been defined by the listening to the track, the album, or the live performance, but when MTV arrived in the 1980s, the music video became the format of...
Future Publishing in the UK is going to launch this September, a new magazine called The Simple Things. It’s one of the first big print publications to take a post-materialist viewpoint and to reflect the values, attitudes and behaviors we seeing in these continued recessionary times. It’s a...
Earlier this month, a rogue trading algorithm, resulted in Knight Capital losing $440 million in just 40 minutes. Basically translated; a piece of computer code ran amok and caused financial chaos. Knight is an unknown entity to the American public and probably most who trade stocks haven’t...
Bloomberg has a good story about the rise of a new class of fashion company that’s offering consumers high quality products at a fraction of the cost of their designer equivalents. It’s a model that takes advantage of the power of technological globalization to connect directly to consumers,...
In the crystal clear 3D, HDTV world with digital audio, it sometimes seems like everything is just a little too perfect. However, if you turn back the clock a couple of decades you can find a world where technology wasn’t quite as perfect. It’s the world of VHS tape and 8-bit video games, a...
The image above is of a man in the New York subway searching with a torch and some kind of “grabbing pole” for his smartphone that he was convinced fell onto the track. As you can see it’s an elaborate operation; it involves, torches, tools and time and I also should mention, he...
Whole Foods just released stellar quarterly results, with net income rising 32%, which probably had some people scratching their heads, as it was yet another conflicting signal that did not compute with a potential economic downturn. In the question and answer session with analysts after the...
The announcement that Amazon is opening a Digital Media Center in London is further evidence that the company is keen to move deeper into the media content space. The center is going to focus on the development of user focused applications to stream content. This development will be drawing upon...
According to Matthew Ingram, writing in GigaOm, Instagram, is coming under fire from critics for taking photography away from the professionals and putting it into the hands of untalented amateurs. The critics appear to be slamming the users of the service for sharing the banal elements of their...