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...national ad campaign plays off the McCafé name. In one spot, for example, a chore - ironing one's shirt - becomes a much more pleasurable "choré" with McCafé coffee in your hand. That's kind of cute, but why don't the ads highlight the company's one major advantage over coffee competitors: price? With consumer spending still weak, shouldn't McDonald's be explicitly broadcasting its bargains? "Here's what everyone implicitly understands," Thompson says. "With our supply chain and the leverage we have, the products are going to be more affordable than other coffee offerings...
...Though details are still unclear, the plan appears to place the individual brands under the umbrella of a kind of holding company, described in a statement by Porsche as an "integrated leading company." The merger also entails a $6.7 billion capital increase, financed by Porsche's existing shareholders, for the new company this year or next, according to a Reuters report...
...clever headline by The Stanford Daily News. Kind of. When former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice dined with students at Stanford, they said they had a positive experience speaking with her--though several students also protested outside on the lawn, arguing that she should be prosecuted for "war crimes" such as "authorizing torture and waging aggressive war in Iraq...
...have memory that goes for generations. I was struck by an LA Times article that I saw from 1886, after the Los Angeles housing bubble. The writer said something like Californians have learned. Never again will we allow real estate speculation to go so far. And he was kind of right. I don't think California had another massive real estate bubble until the 1970s. After a hundred years, we're allowed to forget, right...
Some public-health experts say this kind of user-fueled data-tracking may start to help government health officials' efforts to recognize outbreaks. Real-time warnings would allow authorities to stay well ahead of potential pandemics, prepare local populations with appropriate prevention and treatment, and reduce overall illness and deaths. The Google Flu Trends service, which was launched in the U.S. in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is now working with Mexican officials to track search trends in that country. The goal is to help authorities discern whether and where the disease is spreading, getting...