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...People liked the fact that we were dealing with a life stage when there is so much need for information to inform purchase decisions. Hummer Winblad invested to empower the e-commerce component of the business, a wedding gift registry. When qvc invested, it was interested in helping us build our brand. We had only $1.7 million in the beginning, and then we reached $3 million. A year later, people were throwing $10 million and $20 million at people just for waking up in the morning. But that wasn't our culture...
...doing something unnatural. To do that, they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within. "It turns out," he says, "that roaches aren't very discriminating" - they'll accept anything of roughly the right size and smell. In the end, the engineers came up with little wheeled robots shaped like matchboxes...
...other public places in Britain, Germany and Sweden. That's a service that cell-phone companies like Vodafone and Orange are struggling to sell via their 3G mobile-phone networks. Wi-fi, which uses low-cost, wireless Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build a broadband wireless business for the last 10 years, and when wi-fi came around four years ago," says Polk--whose varied experience includes running the Latin American unit of Global Wireless holdings, a company backed by investor George Soros--"[wi-fi] looked like it would...
This year India's tea industry has finally begun fighting back. The central government has promised $1.16 billion over the next 15 years in loans and subsidies for new, more productive plantings. Copying the clever marketing of tea producers in Sri Lanka and Africa, Indian entrepreneurs have begun to build their own upscale brands. Some producers, meanwhile, are branching out into tea bars for the subcontinent's free-spending young professionals. India's tea producers may never recapture the glory days, but they'll need a new strategy to survive into the future...
...main goals of Sesame Street is to promote basic learning at a time when most fourth-graders can’t read at grade level. A new initiative is a podcast called “Word on the Street,” which was created to help children build their vocabularies. Knell played an episode that has been viewed two million times on YouTube. In it, Chris Brown and Elmo dance to hip-hop music and point out closed, open, stop, and enter signs. The video ends with the pair holding hands and walking into the sunset as Elmo sings...