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...movement was born on March 29, 2008, when hundreds of green-minded patrons poured into a San Francisco convenience store after Schulkin solicited bids from 23 stores in the area to find the business that would promise to spend the highest percentage of Carrotmob profits on more energy-efficient lighting. The crowd spent more than $9,200 at the K&D Market, which then fulfilled its pledge to plow 22% of the day's revenue into greener lighting - with the haul from the Carrotmob providing enough cash to make all the improvements recommended by an energy auditor (and Carrotmob supporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoppers, Unite! Carrotmobs Are Cooler than Boycotts | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...Charging people a dollar for a meal or for some modest item off a retail shelf may seem like a gimmick to pick up a penny a share for the next quarter. It is a good deal more than that. When a dollar is all that someone can spend, that person doesn't care if his purchase increases the company's earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspired by McDonald's, Wal-Mart Creates Its Own Dollar Menu | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...slide in console sales is so extreme that it is a clear sign that sales of consumer electronics are in a flat spin. When people cannot spend $300 on a console or $50 on a game which can be used for hours and played over and over again, the money for discretionary spending has dried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Video Games Are an Excellent Economic Indicator | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...John •authorship by of memo that basically authorized torture proves no barrier to the decision by the Philadelphia Inquirer to spend its dwindling meager funds on columns by attacking the attackers of said torture memo

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Happened This Week!: The News Index | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...Google are not like one another at all. IBM makes its money selling expensive hardware, client services, and software to companies, most of which are very large, and to governments. Google has millions of customers who pay nothing to use its services. It has millions of advertisers who spend money to reach people who look at search results and most of these marketers are very small. (See pictures of Google Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Google and IBM Are Ahead of the Competition | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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