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Brands are starting to hire out teenagers as interns to help make marketing decisions that make their brand more relevant.

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Guide to greener technology, issued in Oct of this year

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Amsterdam creative agency, THEY, is using @TweetaBrief to tweet 140 character briefs for potential interns to respond to. BRILLIANT! Because as they say, "A briefing should be brief. Anything over 140 characters= bullshit." If only all project briefs were this succinct!

talks about the growth of foursquare internally and the number of users

Groupon and LivingSocial are buying similar companies in other countries in an attempt to go international

"The game will be published internationally in early 2015 to coincide with the international rollout of the movie."

"First, the artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms had to train themselves. They used about 78% of the data-some 295,267 records-to search for patterns and build their own internal "guidelines." They then tested themselves on the remaining records. Using record data available in 2005, they predicted which patients would have their first cardiovascular event over the next 10 years, and checked the guesses against the 2015 records. Unlike the ACC/AHA guidelines, the machine-learning methods were allowed to take into account 22 more data points, including ethnicity, arthritis, and kidney disease."

The popularity of Apple's online educational catalog, iTunes U, has tripled over the past two-and-a-half years - if the number of downloads is any indication. Apple announced Thursday that more than 1 billion items have been downloaded from the catalog, up from 300,000 in August 2010. The service was launched in mid-2007 and got a dedicated app at the beginning of last year.

Getty Images partnered with East London media artists The Light Surgeons to create an interactive experience at Cannes Lions 2013 which explores their vast video archive of 1.8M clips through meta-tagging and connections to reveal the conceptual relationships between image and word. Getty Images' international creative experts shared their insights around the future of video at the event.

As of Sunday past, The New York Times said it had around 454,000 paid subscribers to its various digital packages, e-readers and replica editions of The New York Times, as well as the International Herald Tribune (IHT).

Pop-up shopping mall using shipping crates while they decide what to do with the space permanently. 

You "hunt" for a MINI then if you find it have to run away from the other users hunting it.