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Facebook buys out Lightbox

http://www.slashgear.com/facebook-buys-out-lightbox-15228449/ This week Facebook has been announced as purchasing Lightbox, this purchase topping off their recent $1 billion dollar grab of Instagram and coming up right behind their summer IPO. This service purchase will have lightbox.com shutting down sign-ups immediately and will have current users given a final chance to download their current photo collection before June 15th.
http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-is-buying-slideshare-2012-5 LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock.

LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million

Food's Biggest Scam - The Great Kobe Beef Lie - Forbes

These are cuts of the famous Kobe beef from Hyogo prefecture in Japan. http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/12/foods-biggest-scam-the-great-kobe-beef-lie/
http://www.businessinsider.com/jc-penney-adopts-new-logoits-3rd-in-as-many-years-2012-1 JC Penney unveiled a new corporate logo this morning—giving the store its third in as many years. The new branding evokes the American flag but jettisons everything else that was familiar about JCP's last two logos. The marque is part of a massive overhaul of JCP, whose CEO Ron Johnson is "fundamentally re-imagining every aspect of the Company's business."

JC Penney Adopts New Logo—Its 3rd In As Many Years

Social and search continue to be essential inbound marketing channels.

Is Pinterest the Next Social Commerce Game Changer? | Monetate

http://monetate.com/infographic/is-pinterest-the-next-social-commerce-game-changer/#axzz1ktdC2wur

Heineken: Design Challenge - Print (video) - Creativity Online

http://creativity-online.com/work/heineken-design-challenge/25701 Only connect. In celebration of the company's 140th anniversary, Heineken in the Netherlands is asking consumers to submit their own designs for a limited edition bottle.

Corporations Prefer iOS Over BlackBerry and Android

A recent Checkpoint research that surveyed 768 IT professionals from the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan demonstrates that Apple’s iOS is the preferred mobile platform when it comes to corporations. http://mashable.com/2012/01/23/corporations-ios/

Facebook's New Advertising Model: You - Forbes

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t talk much about his company’s advertising business, even when it invents new kinds of ads that could disrupt a chunk of the $500 billion influence industry. So it was up to David Fischer, who left a star career at Google early last year to run Facebook’s advertising business, to make a pilgrimage to Advertising Week, a weeklong annual confab of marketers in New York in October. http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2011/11/16/facebooks-new-advertising-model-you/
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/10-years-of-the-ipod-a-design-retrospective.ars When the original iPod first came out 10 years ago, the concept didn't seem novel to those who had already hopped on the MP3 player bandwagon. What was new—aside from its deep integration with Apple's music store—was the physical design. The minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, the easy-access buttons—and oh, the scroll wheel!

10 years of the iPod: a design retrospective

MC Hammer launching his own search engine - CNN.com

The venerable rapper, who helped usher hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early '90s, has rolled out a search engine he hopes will outperform Google, Bing and other established tools. The project, called WireDoo , has been two years in the making, said Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) Wednesday at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco.

Siri Service on Apple's iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor - WSJ.com

One of the top draws to Apple's iPhone 4S is its new speech recognition software, called Siri, that's designed to talk back. In San Francisco, Ian Sherr hears some new owners' favorite questions.

The 10 Commandments of Steve Jobs [Infographic]

Newsweek’s The Daily Beast published an interesting infographic on Steve Jobs and his supposed playbook for managing the creative process at Apple.

Opinion: Will Siri Change the Rules of the Search Game?

There are two hallmarks of disruptive innovation that are commonly misunderstood. The first is the myth of the “aha” moment that tends to assign disruption to a single instant of discovery and change, when, in reality, nearly all disruptive innovations are the result of long-term trends, research, and investment that finally culminate at an inflection point. The iPad wasn’t invented in a vacuum, but was the result of decades of research, failed attempts, and gradual technology advancements.