Advertisers have been trying for decades to target the perfect consumer: someone who is savvy and sophisticated (translation: wealthy), yet also is too lazy to look deeply into other options and will just buy the freakin’ thing. In recent years, online advertising has evolved into an entire industry, dedicated to targeting consumers of all shapes and sizes and interests. Today, advertisers can target consumers from any age group, region, and interest category, such as sports [...]
Sunnyvale, CA – In the wake of Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision last month to end her company’s work-from-home program, throngs of tired-looking Yahoo! employees have begun showing up at the office in sleepwear and eating breakfast foods all day at their desks in a form of protest. “If we can’t work from home, then I guess we’ll just have to home from work,” said Yahoo! marketing analyst Justin Zeller, who had telecommuted [...]
Beijing, China – Rising youth interest in technology was on display as a recent survey conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) revealed that a staggering 92% of China’s preschoolers consider hacking their favorite school subject, easily beating out math (4%), science (2%), English (1%) and history (1%) as the preferred class activity. In just its first year as a required subject, computer hacking — specifically malicious Internet activity targeting infrastructure [...]
With an eye on the niche market of people with ready access to computers but not food, Dell Inc. is said to be cooking up designs for an edible laptop, according to an unnamed company source. The veteran computer maker has reportedly filed a number of patents relating to consumable hardware, including edible keyboard keys, camera lenses, track pads and auxiliary cables “that taste like licorice,” the source claimed. Earl Horshizer, [...]
Portland, OR – At 5:03 yesterday afternoon, an exhausted but elated Tim and Kathy Fensworth welcomed into the world their brand new, healthy 8-lb. baby boy ;P, who is the first ever person to be named an emoticon. The couple, who were reportedly neither drunk nor high at the time of the baby’s naming, said they had actually been leaning toward the name :0 as recently as last week but were holding off [...]
In a shocking turn of events, a letter from BlackBerry president and CEO Thorsten Heins has surfaced (posted today on social-news site Reddit.com) suggesting that R&B singer Alicia Keys was blackmailed into becoming the telecommunication company’s new Global Creative Director. More to come as this story develops.
Pensacola, FL – Avid safari-goer and lifelong giraffe fanatic Maude O’Leary was said to be “over the moon” yesterday after hearing about Facebook’s new giraffe search, according to her husband Henry. “She hasn’t been this excited since Elvis came to Madison Square Garden in ’72,” Henry said. “She just can’t get enough of giraffes.” O’Leary, who has been giraffe-crazy ever since safariing through Tanzania as a little girl, overheard two youngsters talking [...]
New York, NY – Known best for her bizarre clothing choices and frightening live performances, Lady Gaga has decided to put recording and touring on hold for the next year while she focuses on a series of tweet-size children’s books she’s calling “Lady G’s Amazing Baby Monsters: Traveling to the Sun and Other Fun Tales.” Each of the collection’s 50 volumes will tell a “baby monster’s” unique story while using no more than 140 characters [...]
Columbus, OH – Former Best Buy store manager Trent Mider learned the hard way that it’s always important to check everything on your computer screen before taking and sending a screenshot to someone with the ability to fire you. Because what started out as a simple email letting his boss, regional manager Bill Montgomery, know that the Grove City Best Buy’s holiday hours were listed incorrectly online turned into an inadvertent announcement that Mider was [...]
