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...beverages now sold wins a free song download from the latter company’s wildly popular (though thus far not terribly profitable) iTunes Music Store. If iTunes’ flow of publicity and technology awards hasn’t convinced critics that this unique business model represents the future of the music industry, a creative partnership like this one should still turn a lot of heads...
...than with useful free stuff? This seems a substantial improvement over past promotions, which have featured prizes with less broad appeal (say a sports jersey or concert tickets) and with much poorer odds. And what better way for Apple to increase the consumer comfort level with their new business model than by allowing the consumers to try it out risk-free? Apple wins because they gain an even larger head start over their competition from “Napster 2.0” and other similar pay-per-song services. Pepsi wins because we buy more Pepsi...
...starting the online music industry takes off with its full potential is almost irrelevant: We’re now seeing real spending on the part of major corporations (including those without a prior vested interest in the market) on digital music sales, and so it seems that the iTunes model is here to stay. The parties involved are demonstrating that they are ready to make a commitment to sell the idea to consumers not by threatening them but by enticing them and embracing them, and they aim to show their critics just how successful this strategy can be. Apple?...
After a decade of living and working in almost monastic seclusion in Yountville, he has had to devise a business model that allows him to oversee several restaurants spread out over 3,000 miles, while maintaining the exacting standards for which he is famous. That means more than doubling his business's sales in one year--without diluting the brand or the diner's experience...
...were taken with the first Matrix, when Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss jabbed barbecue skewers into their heads and played video games on their postapocalypse Internet. But to a handful of brainiacs at the start-up Cyberkinetics Inc., it's not science fiction. It's a business model. Using Brown University research, scientists are studying how electrons that shoot through our neural superhighways control movement. Eventually, they hope to build devices that will enable victims of paralysis to communicate with digital gadgets--or their own limbs--via brain implants. Cyberkinetics is a concrete example of the crumbling wall between...